Area 51 PC [Archive]

Gladjag

28-06-2005, 15:49

Hope some one can help me on this.
I am having Video problems. cannot see any characters, only partial view of them. I met all the requirements and surpass them except for my Video card is ATI 9000 (overclocked).
I have dropped the Vid setting in game as low as possible and still same Prob.

any assistance is welcomed

TippeX

28-06-2005, 17:32

try not overclocking your video card (obvious aint it)

Gladjag

28-06-2005, 17:43

Thanks Tippex.
I removed the overclocking. I also unisntalled game and re-installed it to make sure.
I have moved all the Vid settings to the lowest level and still same result. Video corruption. BTW everything in game world except for the characters are perfect. :(

TippeX

28-06-2005, 17:52

latest drivers, direct x etc?, if it isnt the overclocking then it sounds like a driver glitch, or the overclocking screwed the memory on the video card, but hopefully that didnt happen ;)

Gladjag

28-06-2005, 18:07

Tested vid card and not affected by the overclocking since I used ATI tool to do it and safe guards in place to protect card.
I have downloaded latest ATI driver and installed it. Same result.
Directx 9.0c installed

PIV 2.2 Ghz 1 gig ram
so no probs with minimum requirments there.
Only prob is Vid and Midways states ATI 9500 and up. Played Far Cry on this card and no prbs and that game was heavy on Vid cards.

BarryB

29-06-2005, 06:48

Just try a couple of things:

1. Disable 'Fast Writes' either in BIOS or in ATI SmartGART options.
2. Drop RAM Speed in ATI tool by 10Mhz
These cured problems for me in some games.

Gladjag

29-06-2005, 12:04

Thanks BarryB
Tried yuor suggestions and no change. I even tried changing some configs in Vid setting I.E. 3D and OpenGL and same result.

I guess I will have to resign myself from playing this game.
Wish they would have put in some more detailled Vid adjustements in game set-up. :(

DABhand

30-06-2005, 02:21

Think of the possibility that the overclocking has done some damage to your card.

It doesnt matter if you used ATI's OC util or someone elses. As soon as you overclock a card over its max default it will start to degrade.

TonyMacaroni

30-06-2005, 05:36

I dont think the card was damaged by overclocking. If this happens, you usually wouldn't be able to play a game at all because the screen stays dark.
Simply wait till the next patch or Catalyst driver releases.

BarryB

30-06-2005, 07:01

There is an updated StarForce EXE/DLL to fix a crash bug with Intel onboard graphic chips, I know you don't have that but you could try it and see if it helps!

http://data.area51-game.com/pc_patches/A51_patch_us.exe

Gladjag

30-06-2005, 07:29

Thaanks Barry,
Already beat you to the punch on that one.
tried it same prob.

The funny thing is that the Characters seems like they are tearing and not completly showing up. Tried playing the game a bit to see if there would be a change. No luck same prob, except that sometimes they charracters partially show up. :(

BarryB

30-06-2005, 10:58

Reading through the readme.txt it states Radeon 9800 through 9500, doesn't mention the 9000 so it may not be fully supported, although that card does support pixel/vertex shaders.

Gladjag

30-06-2005, 14:12

Hi BarryB
yes that was my concern, but on the other hand FarCry was a heavier demanding game on Vid cards and I was able to play it with no probs.

Go figure lol

Kakarott

01-07-2005, 05:22

hi, i dont want to open a new thread, so i post my area 51 problem in here. Hope it'll be okay :)

Simple but stupid problem: After i copied the crack to play without cd, the game wont start, "fehler in anwendung / error in application" on adress "xrascxya12345"(cant repeat this long error message in original)in memory etc ...

if its my memory, why only crash at this game?
Any other got problems with this crack?

Without crack i can play ...

Gladjag

01-07-2005, 06:16

Kakarott,
If I am not mistaken, you need all the files (.ooo and .dfs) that have been modified to play with the cracked .exe.
I know that reloaded as put out a full crack with the amended files.

Good luck

Kakarott

01-07-2005, 06:23

u are right, there are some other files in the rar archive, i think i will search for each file in the rea 51 dir, i already looked for one file, but i dont find. Think i must look better.

i neverh ad a game who needed such kind of files, but ok, i will try ;)

thx ;)

Gladjag

01-07-2005, 06:30

There is a total of 8 files, in the cracked reloaded version I have seen.
one which is the crack .exe

Good luck

Kakarott

01-07-2005, 07:36

Gladjag

01-07-2005, 08:18

Kakarott, please let me know if you have any Video issues like mine once you start the game.

kre

01-07-2005, 10:28

*lol*

was so easy i didnt believe that this is the solution :D

i put the rest of the files into the area 51 dir and then it started without probs....

every problem should be solved as easy as this one *g*

You're right, just extract the rld-a51c.rar-Archive to main-game-directory (8 files plus .nfo, no crack.exe, only A51.exe will be overwritten), game starts and runs without probs. I'm in chapter 8 in the meantime.

M4z3

01-07-2005, 10:42

Oh, i have exactly the same problem..
My graphic card is geforce 4, weak card.
I think this prob appears in weak cards that dont support some thing that cause this thing...
Maby soon some one will release a patch or something that will fix this prob, hopefully :[
But still there is something strange, becuz if you look down, usually you see the game like it need to be, but when you look upper, this prob appears again.
Also when you start the game, you can return back and you will see the map as it need to be.
Very strange.. :(

DABhand

01-07-2005, 15:24

Kakarott

02-07-2005, 06:21

What are issues? Problems? Trouble with the game? dont really know that word ;)

but i got no problems, game runs complete great with that crack. I also had no graphicproblems, everything is displayed so as the developer want to show us ... i think. i got a GF6800 Ultra.

written by DABhand: Now there is a very familiar name

what do you mean with this?

kakarott

pS: n!c3 g4m3 :p

DABhand

02-07-2005, 09:23

kakarott kakarott such a familiar name somehow to me.

have you been known this for years particularly in the 98/99 years?

Kakarott

02-07-2005, 16:50

kakarott kakarott such a familiar name somehow to me.

have you been known this for years particularly in the 98/99 years?

no, i dont think so.

i used this nick for about ... 2 years?

Kakarott is a guy from a anime series(dragonballZ), u know? :D

Maybe thats why the name is familiar? ;)