A little help please?

[Malenfant]

Parminio - have you tried cycling through the display modes (using Ctrl+V) in Celestia? What modes show up when you try that?

When I hit control V, nothing happens.

Well that's definitely odd then. You should see some white text in the bottom left of the Celestia screen that cycles through "Render Path: Basic" -> "Multitexture" -> "OpenGL Vertex Program" -> "OpenGL Vertex Program/NVIDIA Combiners" -> "Open GL 2.0" and then back to "Basic". If you're above Earth and doing this you should see some noticeable changes in the appearance with each step.

I don't know what it means if you can't see anything at all, you should be able to at least cycle through Basic and Multitexture at least even with the most basic drivers.

[cartrite]

Malenfant wrote:

Well that's definitely odd then. You should see some white text in the bottom left of the Celestia...............

Thats exactly what I get, no response from control v when I disable hardware acceleration. I think GDI Generic has only 1 render mode.

[Parminio]

I'm quite possitive that the fellow with the 7900GTX having problems with Oblivion is his own doing.

I'm willing to bet a million bucks I don't have that he's set up the graphics himself. He's changed to 8x anti-alaising at a high resolution with all things viewable.

He's really screwed up if he has. HDL takes the place of regular rendering. No anti-alaising is required at all. He's thinking old school and that game is anything but.

Regards,
Parminio

p.s. On the old system, I do get the options when hitting control V. Not on my system though.

[Malenfant]

p.s. On the old system, I do get the options when hitting control V. Not on my system though.

Wacky idea - try putting the 7900 card in the old system and see what happens (assuming it can physically support it)? If you get the same problem then you at least can say that you know for sure it's either the card or the drivers.

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I just noticed something in one of your posts. Your using Norton Anti Virus.I used that myself when I first got my high speed connection. I stopped using it quite a while ago. I remember once when I reinstalled Windows 2000 that Norton survived the disk formatting and was there in the registry after a brand new install causing me grief. I have since heard a lot of horror stories about it. I'm not sure if that would be a cause for your problem though.

Anyhow, did you try to run Celestia with the Forceware driver 84.21 installed in the course of attempts to fix this problem?

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Parminio wrote:

I'm quite possitive that the fellow with the 7900GTX having problems with Oblivion is his own doing.

I was just suggesting to keep an eye on any response he may get. I didn't spend too much time going thru that forumn but it's another place to look for a cure to your problem. Like.

I read in some other threads of that fourmn that some people were having problems with 7900 gtx cards and the 9x.xx series of drivers. Try driver 84.21.

The 9x.xx driver you said was installed on your system earlier.

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Assuming that the software was installed correctly and there are no driver issuses affecting your system, the only thing that could be causing your problem is the hardware. Recheck your cable connections, ie your vga or dvi cable from the monitor is connected to the right port and not your on-board graphics port. Check the manual to make sure that that all, if any, dip switches are set correctly for the pci-e to work. Check the bios to make sure that pci-e is set to run your graphics system. I think that some pci-e cards require an extra power connection. If you have SLI with one card, make sure that is set for single mode and not dual mode. My system board requires a special chip for dual mode. So there are 2 differnt chips involved. That is all I can think of. Good Luck.
Edit: Also, make sure that your power supply is enough for pci-e to work. correctly. I think it should be in the 500 watt range?
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