Disappering woods

[Gottel]

Hello,

when beeing autside the tank (F8) und using the zoom (n/mouse) it happens (mostly on multiplayer, that I host) that in F8 I see wooods, and when using the zoom, the wood goes away and I see the enemy units, which were not visible before. As gunner, when using zoom, I could also see more tha I should. Other players dont have this problem, they don't have the woods disappear while zooming.

Is this a known problem?

I use Vista, with latest drivers.

Thanks alot

Gottel.

[Sean]

Try downgrading the graphics drivers - the newer ones seem to have some bugs in them.

[Koen]

I'm having this with Win XP as well, on a 1-year old computer.

So problem is not Vista related ?

Rgds,

Koen

[sabot_ready]

Certain maps also bring out this . The one that "Test of Metal" uses is one I know of.

[bergmania]

Happens for me on the hunfeld.raw map to (Its the map thats in the Battle for Ljusnan Valley), The pine forrest in it doesn't look like the pine forrest in the fulda_alt map tho, maybe something related to using a map originating from SB1??

[Sean]

Ahhh. Ok. The SB1 map converter has/had a bug in it where it converted some of the trees into strange pseudo bushes that appeared and disappeared quickly at short ranges.

[Gottel]

Thaks for the informations.

I think I've seen this bug, bushes and trees are more looking like fences of small black wires ...

I will also try older graphic drivers, the new ones feel strange also in some other games as well.

Gottel

[YorkshireTea]

Yes, I've got this too on certain maps, I mentioned it on the Vista Graphics Problem thread in the support forum. I assumed it was a driver problem, so was waiting for new nVidia Vista drivers for the 8800. Downgrading drivers doesn't seem a viable option on Vista, due to the added system instability and other games failing.

[Gottel]

I have seen new nvidia beta driver are out, for vista and 8800 , version is 163.11. I have installed drivers, maybe I have zo test tomorrow.

Gottel

[Koen]

The above mentioned problem is still bugging me with the BETA:

- zoom in

=> forests change shape (trees become thin wires) & disappear finally

=> ENY behind trees become visible

Cfr. 3 successive screenshots in attached RAR.

Computer= WIN XP - nvidia 6600 GT 128 MB

Any solution possible ?

THX,

Koen

02-12-08.rar

[Tacbat]

X-ray vision, cool. So that's what it's like to be Superman.

[DarkAngel]

In the SB options set the z-buffer to 16 bit. I found that cured the problem with flickering trees on the 8800.

[RHK111]

In the SB options set the z-buffer to 16 bit. I found that cured the problem with flickering trees on the 8800.

It´s dont work in my NV 7800 GS

Salu2

[Ssnake]

1) Driver update?

2) Reduction of ground clutter settings (Alt+D)?

[RHK111]

1) Driver update?

2) Reduction of ground clutter settings (Alt+D)?

Yap it was "Ground Cover" setting, now I have:

General = 100;

Ground = 100;

Ground Cover = 10

THX

PD any short info about "Ground Cover" ? - in SB in my manual I have not any info.

[Ssnake]

That dialog box was added after the manual was printed. Eventually we'll add this in the new print. I think however that some additional measures were taken to deal with the "disappearing forests" thing, so it should be less of an issue with the next release version this December.