COMPUTER GAME QUESTION

[ayashi]

When I play games on my computer, certain graphics seem to be very compressed and look awful. Some examples of this are the Warcraft III logo on the main menu in War3 and Frozen Throne, and the pointer (in game, the hand - but if I remember correctly, IN GAME, the menu at the bottom looks perfectly fine and not ugly at all). Another (from another game) is the text in UT2004 looking awful (hard to read, not clear at all). These problems are remedied by increasing the resolution in the game to the highest it can go, but for some reason I never observe these problems on anyone else's computers. (another problem is UT2004 running slow when I am at the highest, so I can't run it at the highest, and reading text when it looks super compressed and jpeg-y is horrible - I understand this problem of course because my processor is at the lower end of what UT2004 needs blahblahblah, but not why the text has to look horrible). In all of these programs I can change the detail levels for all the graphics to high but it still doesn't fix the problem, ONLY changing the resolution does. It doesn't seem to be this way on anyone else's computer.

Anyone have an idea of what is doing this and how it can be fixed? I don't know what it could be, I haven't messed with any settings related to my video, the video card is really good and new, the other thing that's different from this computer and a lot of others is, well, the processor. :( could that possibly be a problem? I don't see how, but then again I don't know where this problem is coming from.

Comments

[jackylhellstrom.livejournal.com]

It might be the video mode. I know in Diablo 2, depending on what video mode you have set determines the quality of the game.

Are you using OpenGL or Dirext X or what?

DirectX

[kelsin.livejournal.com]

She's using DirectX but that's all that comes with Unreal (very odd considering how open the game is and how it runs in linux and all) but the only available windows graphic modes are Software and DirectX, I'm goign to have her try running it in Linux later and see if it's still a problem.

[lynxwinters.livejournal.com]

Stating the obvious here, but try updating the drivers for your video card.

[ayashi.livejournal.com]

already did :( didn't help at all.