FireWarrior Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 Need a bit of help... I have a problem with Aftermath where all text shows up blurry and with something like lines on the sides, jutting out above and below the letters. Makes reading extremely painfull and often downright impossible. I was told that this problem can be fixed by de-activating AA for Aftermath, but the Control Panel only has "Application preference" which is the standard option I usually keep it on... no option to turn it off directly... So my questions is this: How do I specify UFO: Aftermath to run without AA when the Control Panel won't give me the option to do so? Specs:AMD Athlon XP 1500+ 1.35Ghz ATI Radeon 9600PRO Atlantis 128MB DDR RAM768MB DDR RAMWinXP with Service Pack 1DirectX 9.0bIf I'm not mistaken I'm running Catalyst 4.1 drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llama8 Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 You can set up a custom configuration for things like that on the control panel & it in a custom config that you can turn AA (amongst other things) off. I would help more, but I'm at work at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireWarrior Posted February 27, 2004 Author Share Posted February 27, 2004 Ok... Now can someone please explain how I setup a custom configuration-thingie for Aftermath? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 Sorry, have no idea how the setup stuff for the ATI cards work. Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireWarrior Posted March 1, 2004 Author Share Posted March 1, 2004 SOMEBODY HELP DAMMIT!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted March 1, 2004 Share Posted March 1, 2004 Now now, no use in shouting. I do not have an ATI graphics card, so I can't help you. I looked at the ATI site, but I didn't find anything there. Anyway, this is something you have to control in the graphics card options, and this site is dedicated to the game, not ATI. Therefore you can not expect that people here know how to setup custom profiles for the ATI card. So if no one here knows, I suggest you ask at the ATI forum, or log on to IRC and ask someone there. For NVIDIA cards, you can right click the icon in the taskbar, and disable AA there. Sure there isn't something like that for the ATI drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kret Posted March 1, 2004 Share Posted March 1, 2004 You should have an ATI Control Center in your taskbar, right click on it and select Settings -> ATI Display Settings. Select the Direct3D tab and take note of the options and their current values. Also check what the values appear in the new window when you click on compatibility settings button. I can't help further than that without knowing those values. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireWarrior Posted March 1, 2004 Author Share Posted March 1, 2004 That's the whole problem... The only option other than forced active (with various modes 2x, 4x and so on) is "Application Preference" which, apparently, have absolutely no effect... But I guess Slaughter is right *sigh* you are Aftermath loonies (in a good way mind you) and not ATI-freaks so I guess that sort of thing isn't exactly your domain... The most annoying part is that it worked prior to my upgrade spree... (new motherboard, more RAM, new mouse and a new GFX-card) *sigh again* Better go look somewhere else... thx anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kret Posted March 1, 2004 Share Posted March 1, 2004 Did you try the Alternate Pixel Center in the Compatibility Settings?Also, is your hardware acceleration at full or a few notches bellow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 That is strange. In the NVIDIA control centre you can turn off AA. Should have been like that in the ATI one as well if you ask me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kret Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 I think it's a "copy-paste" error when they designed the GUI for the ATI control center and for the Anti-aliasing it should say "Disable" and not "Application preference". Think I'll contact ATItech about it. If you look in the openGL tab, you'll see it has exactly the same structure, but with the correct name of the checkbox ("Disable"). Anyway, you should contact ATItech about it, and everyone that has any graphic related problem should contact their corresponding client support. I have an ATI card (9100 Series) no problems here really, guess I was plain lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireWarrior Posted March 2, 2004 Author Share Posted March 2, 2004 Kret, until accel bar reaches the point where it just shuts down DirectDraw and Direct3D options there are no effect on Aftermath... and after that point the game is too choppy to play with. Not entirely sure about the "Alternate Pixel Center" thing. I'll be posting on Rage3D and hope they have some idea about the issue... otherwise I'll have to go to the source (ATI). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilthanaz Posted July 8, 2004 Share Posted July 8, 2004 Darn! I also have the problem with AA'ed Text now. Ati Radeon 9800 XT here ... doesn't seem like i can turn off AA in the 3D Settings of D3D Is there a sollution for this problem, yet? Or maybe some small tool that would run you something with a D3D parameter that'd disable AA for the particular game? Thanks in advance, Gil Edit:Nevermind. After i read somewhere here that the Game actually uses OpenGL, it made sense that changes in the D3D settings didn't help much. The sollution in my case was quite easy, then - instead of turning AA/AF off, i set openGL in the ATI-Tool-thingie to "optimal quality" (like, looks best but is slowest), and suddenly the text looks normal. Sorry for wasting your time. If it also doesn't work for you, try to set it to maximum quality... when it worked for my, why shouldn't it work for others, too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izchan Posted July 9, 2004 Share Posted July 9, 2004 Ah ... I use an ATI Radeon 7500 ... I had the same problem, until I did an upgrade of my driver. Once you update it, you can change the AA to zero. There are new options that you can play with. But as far as I know, once I upgraded my driver, everything works fine. I kept the cofiguration as it was after the update , and the game worked ok. Hope this help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocksk Posted July 17, 2004 Share Posted July 17, 2004 Rage3D is having the same problem. but my ATI 9000 with uodated driver do no. I guess it is time to update my rage3d drive as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now