Weird graphics problem

Anmargo

I use Windows 7 64 bits with an ATI Radeon 3850 PCI-E. I installed Freelancer two days ago and everything was fine, but when I left the first planet I realized that it was transparent. Every planet in the game was transparent. It seems like they haven’t got textures. Could someone help me?

Bas

Hi Anmargo, XDemoneaterX here, eheh!

Well….do you mean you can see through the planet, but SOME parts of it HAVE textures? I recall that I have read about such an issue at the HC server forums (I might check later on)

Can you make an ingame screenshot?

Anmargo

Of course. Here’s the screenshot, you were right.
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/6323/planet1.jpg

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/5243/planet2v.jpg

Vesko

Well, on first sight it looks like just the ‘continents’ are missing. This might be a bit noobish, but do the planets have layered textures or something?

Anmargo

I suppose. I didn’t install any textures mod.

Sizer

i’ve never seen this problem. uh, lemme think. I know planets are LOD’d, it may have someething to do with that, but yeah, it seems to be only affecting the land masses of the planets, not any water areas. see if you can get shots of other planets with bodies of water to confirm the theory.

Anmargo

I just started the game. Could you tell me names of those “water” planets?
I used a downloaded savegame to take this photo.

Bas

Does your problem still exists? First try to disable anti analising in your graphics drivers settings, if this doesn’t work try resetting the options to the defaults.

(I did some search regardings this problem)

Anmargo

Thanks, you’re right, the problem was the antialiasing. I desactivated it in Catalyst and planets have recovered their textures. But now the image is full of edges. Any ideas?

Timmy51m

Try a different graphics driver.

Bas

Screenshot?

Is it like this one:
http://freelancerserver.de/v2/viewtopic.php?t=17783&highlight=durchsichtig

Thread is unfortunally in German.

Anmargo

Sorry, i mean “no antialiasing” edges. Thank you everyone. I found the solution.

Forsaken

What was the solution?

Bas

Anmargo wrote:
Thanks, you’re right, the problem was the antialiasing.

Anmargo

I was wondering if someone has found a better solution for this problem yet. Antialiasing improves very much the image quality, and it’s a shame i can’t activate it in order to see the transparent textures. As I say in the first message, I use and ATI card. Thank you in advance.

Anmargo

For anyone with this problem, I’ve just found that you have to deactivate the “Adaptative Antialiasing” option in the Catalyst menu.

rsabatino

i was going to say something like that. awhile ago somebody had the same problem with a nvidia card

Bas

And since that it is way better now? or completly solved?

Hahukum_Konn

Try re-enabling antialiasing and disabling Catalyst A.I.

rsabatino

these are my settings for free lancer they are automatic in the nvidia control panel