ATi 4890 video card transparency/reflection problems?

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Shessi

SOH-CM-2024
Hi Folks,
After putting a new spec pc together and getting everything loaded, I've come across an anoying problem which I've being searching for an answer.

Below spec machine which handles Fs9 frame wise, every slider at max, but does not want to display some subtle alpha channels/transparencies/reflections. It shows glass, instruments well enough, but not others.

i.e The WoP He219 vc cockpit will not show the lower rt side translucent brown button cover, or lt side brown emergency switch cover or the revi gunsight glass, the covers are brown and if very close it's just able to see through them, the gunsight is just an opaque black.
I also installed Bill Lyons FSGW3 and the texs that cover up the modern runways and taxi-ways show as opaque black.

Have the latest CCC and drivers, gone over checking the card and game settings, un-installed/re-installed etc etc and........:frown:

I have gone from a P4, 2Gb RAM, Ati X800 agp card, XP SP1 system where every thing displayed beautifully, including the above mentioned transparencies (then went phut big time!!), to this:-
Asus P5Q Pro, E8600, 4Gb 8500 RAM, Ati 4890 running XP SP3 (I have my reasons..he he!).

Sorry to be so long winded.

Anyone have some ideas please? Thanks.

Cheers Shessi
 
Hi Shessi, I have the same problem on my Ati, it has a problem rendering 256 colour bmp's, solved it when I made adjustments on the graphic card driver's mip mapping setting,. When it's set to performance it will not render correctly, try sliding it to quality.:engel016: hope this helps
 
Thanks fellas for the suggestions. I'll take a look at those.

The annoying thing is that the old X800 with older drivers looked and performed well, so this card 'should' (!) be doing the same but faster....grrrr!!

If anyone else has had the same probs/solutions/ideas/guesses??....ta in advance!


Cheers Shessi
 
Hi Shessi, if your driver is working well,. Dont change/update it, newer ones are not always the answer, I tried doing that before on "this case" my Nvidia 6600LE & FS rendering went ape! went back on installing the old drivers, but yes Ati is different:wavey:
 
Hi fellas,
Only a little way forward!!!

Unfortunately JH the Omega drivers are way out of date and do not work with the 4890.

VPL, the settings on the MM were at quality not performance. Tried various settings which has not fixed the problem....

I've searched all over the place for the same problems/answers. I just can't believe that no-one else has had the same problems or similar??

Cheers Shessi
 
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