Hi, The game runs fine in single player (campaign or 1v1) mode. However, I tried to start a 2v2 and within 1min of the game, I started to see "red and blue balls" start flashing on my screen. And then I see tiny green squares start appearing, and next thing, the screen goes black with occasionally colored boxes appearing randomly on the screen. Also, lots of screen tearing with occasional colors filling in when I move the mouse (this is kinda the best way I can describe it). I can Alt-Tab out and tab back in to the game and it might or might not fix the graphics. Even if it does fix it, the problem occurs again wthin a few seconds. The game is not frozen and I can still type chat (typing blindly cuz the screen is black, but my buddy said he could see what I type). This problem shows up in Ultra, High and Low graphics setting, so it is some other issue other than the card is not powerful enough to run the game. I have tried installing the latest drivers from ATi, but problem still persists. I run the following specs on my PC: Windows XP Pro 32 Bit Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.00 Ghz 2 GB ram DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) ATi Radeon HD 4800 series with 512 MB Once again, everything is fine playing the campaign and 1v1 against PC or multiplayer. But not 2v2 and 3v3 (likely in 4v4 as well). I am providing screenshots. Problem occurs in order of the pics. "Red and Blue balls" start appearing. "Red and Blue balls" get worse. Screen goes black with some "green boxes". Screen goes completely black, and when I move the mouse, some colors appear (on and off). More black screen with "green boxes". Alt-Tab out and back in again some what fixes the graphics, but problem starts again in seconds. This pic shows tiny "black boxes" within the graphics. Another black screen with some colors showing up in the mini-map. Can anyone please help, or point me to a direction? Thanks in advance.
I'd expect your graphiccard to have problems. Try to run some benchmarks (3d Mark 06 or something) and look out if these problems persist. Try to run the graphic-card on a different PC or a different graphiccard on your PC (if you don't have a second PC, ask a friend). Seems to be broken to me (though i wonder why it only occures in 2v2.....but try to exchange it even once).
I'll try to run a benchmark, but for swapping out videocards with a buddy, seems less of a hassle to just go and get a $60 card. Whats a bare minimum card to run this game in ultra anyways?
Actually, before I buy another card, I'm going to hang on for more thoughts. I just find it very odd that I can run the campaign and 1v1 in Ultra with no problems at all, and yet when I get to 2v2 and more, this problem shows up within 2 mins of the game even at the Low setting.
Those balls look like they're from lighting effects. Try turning down the lighting effects or turning off specular lighting options.
Bah, I tried running 3DMark06, and a very similar thing happened through a few of the tests. It was bad the 1st one, good the 2nd, bad the 3rd, and the rest you can kind of tell that the graphics is glitchy, but not all the way bad. I am not too familiar with these benchmarking softwares, but at the end, it tells me the test was sucessful and a window popped to ask me to "View my results online". I looked at it, and it did not really tell me much.
There's some ATI control panel options you might mess with that could help. Otherwise you could try an older driver or email ATI tech support.
What Service Pack are you running on XP? (Hopefully 3). Go here for additional information on gathering other system information. If you know for sure you have a Service Pack less then 3, update as it is known that systems below Service Pack 1 do not receive proper video driver updates (and can have issues if newer drivers are installed). With a system like that, I know I would sure as hell be running Windows 7 64-bit if I had a choice, although I doubt installing an OS would fix this issue.
I am running XP SP3 on my system right now. Although, if I need to pick up a new Vid Card, I will prolly upgrade my HDD as well and run Windows 7-64bit. I have been searching around town for the eVGA nVidia GTX 460 768 MB, but it seems to be sold out right now. Guess I have to wait abit. the 1GB version is 50 bux (CDN) more and I'm not sure if that little extra is worth the 50bux.
It is, especially in texture heavy games. I would switch to Windows 7 64-bit as soon as you can (at least home Premium). there really shouldn't be a reason for you to ditch your current video card. I would try a 64-bit OS like Vista 64 or Win7 64 first to see if that helps.. in theory it shouldn't but you never know.
Thanks, Ima try Win7 64 first to see if there are any improvements. I am hoping my HD 4850 can stick it out because this is pretty much the only game I play.
