Bug 695 - Bad video display using Redhat 9.0 with ATI radeon VIVO 64MB DDR video
Status: CLOSED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: America's Army
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Graphical Client
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Assignee: Ryan C. Gordon
QA Contact:
URL:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-07-13 19:20 EDT by Vedat Ozdemirler (ThorPilot)
Modified: 2003-10-22 09:10:28 EDT
0 users

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Attachments
log file from the local home directory (15.62 KB, application/x-tar)
2003-07-17 23:17 EDT, Vedat Ozdemirler (ThorPilot)
screenshot of the flickering screen on radeon7500 (122.80 KB, image/jpeg)
2003-08-27 13:42 EDT, Robert Raksi

Description Vedat Ozdemirler (ThorPilot) 2003-07-13 19:20:22 EDT
Bad video display using Redhat 9.0 with ATI radeon VIVO 64MB DDR video.
Following error displayed on console;
Xlib:  extension "XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD" missing on display ":0.0".
Menu items are normal. When the game is started, the video is very distorted.
PC configuration
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
256 MB PC2700 DDR
ATI Radeon AGP VIVO 64 MB DDR
Linux Redhat 9.0
Comment 1 Frank Morris 2003-07-17 16:01:12 EDT
Was there anything else besides Xlib:  extension "XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD"
missing on display ":0.0" such as references to any GL extensions not
supported.If not then that single line is fine.I think the distorted video your
refering to is because by default the game uses compressed lightmaps.Go to
Settings/Video Settings/Advanced and take the check out of use compressed lightmaps.
Comment 2 Vedat Ozdemirler (ThorPilot) 2003-07-17 23:17:55 EDT
Created attachment 82 [details]
log file from the local home directory

This log shows some errors when I ran the game.  I tried the suggested settings
and it did not help.
Comment 3 Frank Morris 2003-07-18 07:24:04 EDT
Try to install the ATI drivers.
http://mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html
Comment 4 Vedat Ozdemirler (ThorPilot) 2003-07-22 13:52:26 EDT
ATI site only has Linux drivers for Radeon 2 (8500 and up). My card is detected 
as Radeon 7200 by red hat. DRI drivers actually made things worse. I could not 
even start the game and get to the menu.  I reverted back to XFree86 drivers 
from and back to the same problem.
Comment 5 jerzy szczudlowski 2003-08-05 12:46:07 EDT
I had same problem when using DRI driver with Radeon 9000. Installing fglrx
helped , so I think it's DRI issue.

Comment 6 Robert Raksi 2003-08-27 13:42:28 EDT
Created attachment 92 [details]
screenshot of the flickering screen on radeon7500

I have the same problem with radeon 7500, gentoo linux, Xfree4.3. I attached a
screenshot so you can see whats happening:)
Comment 7 Vedat Ozdemirler (ThorPilot) 2003-08-27 14:38:46 EDT
I see the same thing on my system.
Comment 8 Robert Raksi 2003-09-10 13:27:15 EDT
I've updated the radeon drivers from dri.sf.net and it works. The soldiers are a
littlebit shiny thou :)
Comment 9 andre 2003-10-02 18:34:40 EDT
I have the exact same problem on an ATI Radeon Mobility 7000 (IGP chipset). The
fglrx drivers do not apply to this card.

System is Gentoo 1.4, Kernel 2.6 (patched), XFree 4.3.9.99 (patched)

Cheers,
  Andr
Comment 10 Ryan C. Gordon 2003-10-02 19:39:17 EDT
The DRI drivers are not known to work well with this game. This is a driver
issue, and not a bug in ArmyOps.

--ryan.

Comment 11 andre 2003-10-21 13:50:08 EDT
What is the driver issue exactly? Could you provide more information by adding a
comment to this bug here please:
http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314

Is it that "TCL" is not supported by that card/chipset?

The driver/card works fine with Glxgears, Tuxracer, Enemy Territory +++

Thanks,
   Andr
Comment 12 Vedat Ozdemirler (ThorPilot) 2003-10-22 09:10:28 EDT
I have decided to get Nvidia FX5200 with 256MB RAM. It works great for the game 
and other stuff using the drivers from Nvidia. Thanks for everybody for 
suggestions and comments.