Bodies messing up
 

Lately I've been having problems with graphics on Graal.
The first being white on the GUI when I first log in. Which isn't bad and just a little annoying. The second being bodies messing up. Every once in a while, I'll get some really annoying errors. It will start showing every players body as one players body. So like it will show my body and the sprite of it as the body of everyone in the level. I've attached some screenshots.
And before someone suggests it, I've already updated to the latest drivers and I have DirectX 9.0c. I have between 8 and 64mb of vram depending on if it's needed or not. I'm running Windows XP Professional on a 1.06 ghz Toshiba Satellite laptop with 512mb of vram. The graphics card is a Intel 82830M integrated graphics controller. I checked the F2 log and it had no errors. I've attached some screen shots along with the log file.

I'd really like to get this fixed. Because if I can't, I'm going to quit Graal until I'm able to build me a new desktop pc.

seems like you're actually missing some graphics?

Are those errors always happening or only in random cases (the gui, and the body) ? Some other people have reported similar problems before but I wasn't able to get in contact with them for giving special test versions of Graal.

No the white squares are only right after I start Graal. I can't log in until they go away and the regular GUI is shown, but it's only for about 5 seconds.

They happen randomly with the bodies and see above about the gui. I know of other people that have the same problem from time to time but mine seems to be more frequent. It started happening when I upgraded my ram and that allowed my vram to go up as well. At the same time I upgraded my ram I also installed the latest video drivers and Directx 9.0c. I'd be happy to help you test.

The GUI issue I have every time I format my computer, it fixes as soon as I install my graphics driver, as does http://forums.graalonline.com/forums...ad.php?t=70868

Another problem that was just brought back to my attention. The install packages window displays nothing for me. I had to get RC, the editor, GraalShop, and bass.dll from friends. Now I can't upgrade to the new RC.

I've waited a while now and still haven't got any more replies from Stefan. This problem is getting worse and makes the game unplayable. If I can't get any help fixing this, I'm just going to get annoyed and quit.

I had this problem a while back. Not sure what I did to fix it. Just kinda fixed itself.

It's copying the body from one single player in the level and applying it to everybody. It keeps the direction, colors, and animation of the body as well.

Exactly. And nothing I've done has fixed it. I've tried updating DirectX to 9.0c and updating my graphics drivers to the latest. It seems to happen when I do something like resize the window or open another window or another game. And I've noticed that if I go as far down and to the right of every other player as I can it will clear up a little bit. By that I mean my body will be shown normally, but every other players is still messed up.

sorry for bumping this, but has anyone found a solution to the problems with the bodies?

Ive had the problems with the bodies ever since i started graal again in August.

See it's obviously a problem with the client and Stefan should look into it. I know he's a busy man, but this is making me want to quit pretty badly. The only reason I'm still around is a promise I made to some friends not to quit.

This happened with v2 if the body image was only 32*32 pixels or smaller. Dunno if that might help, just wanted to tell ya.

The install window is still empty?

If you mean the install packages, then no sir. And I don't have the same problem with PMs crashing my video drives since version 4.208 came out. I still have the same problem with bodies, but it doesn't happen at random now. It only happens when i downsize or resize the game window.

The bodies are messed up no matter what size my window is. It has been that way for months now, even on my other computer. I reinstalled Graal, but still NPCs and other players draw my body attributes and get blurred.

Well, mine is fine when I start Graal and don't touch the window. But as soon as I resize it (bigger or smaller) or minimize it it will mess up. Probably would if I maximized the window too, but I haven't tried that.

When this happens to me on my laptop I've found that if I log in on another account first and leave it at the login, then login on my main account and do whatever, it fixes it.

I know it's strange, but it works.

Will try to fix this problem soon.

Thank you.
From what I've gathered by listening to other people is it only happens when you install the latest drivers for Intel based graphic chipsets. The only way people have been able to fix it is to roll back their drivers to a really old one.
And are you still going to do that client rc for Windows users?

from my expierience the problem occurs when a player tries to delete bodies from files. It reloads and then when it does upload a body it takes a singular player's or NPC's body and applies it to all all bodies.

That's not the case here. I didn't delete anything, but I did update my graphic drivers.

Going to bump this.

It's been like a month and the problem still isn't fixed. Not even a client rc or scripted player list so that running in full screen would be an option to get around the problem. I'm getting a new computer here pretty quick with SLi and such so I doubt it'll be an issue for me anymore, but I know there are lots of other people that have the same problem and it should be fixed.

The next Graal version should eventually fix this, we have changed a lot of stuff. I cannot say yet when it will be released though.

Well I hope it's soon. It really is quite an annoying problem.