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#1 · May 7, 2009, 4:28 pm

Can anyone tell me why this happened. It's happened twice, both times in the Rainbow Palace, never with any other map. I had to shut down Portal and restart it to reset the graphics, then it was fine.

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#2 · May 7, 2009, 4:48 pm

I believe that Rainbow Palace is a pre-SDK map. I'm not sure when the Orange Box SDK came out but if it is a pre-SDK map, that is most likely the problem.

It works fine with me. .

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#3 · May 7, 2009, 7:42 pm

Im pretty sure it came out after the sdk. I'll be the first to admit it if im wrong but can you imagine how hard this map would've been to make if it wasn't for the sdk update which allowed textures to have the "noportal" parameter

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#4 · May 9, 2009, 3:42 pm

It's only happened twice and I've played this map several times, so it's not a big deal, I just thought some of you might find it interesting. Here's another view of it.

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#5 · May 9, 2009, 5:19 pm

That looks really fugly.

#6 · May 9, 2009, 7:09 pm

I just noticed something odd: quite a few of the textures have been replace with different color variations of the texture for the office chair seen in bts areas. Might some of the texture info be replacing itself?

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#7 · May 11, 2009, 3:09 pm

PortalFan77 wrote:

That looks really fugly.

You should try playing it when it looks like this.

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#8 · May 11, 2009, 3:11 pm

p0rtalplayer wrote:

I just noticed something odd: quite a few of the textures have been replace with different color variations of the texture for the office chair seen in bts areas. Might some of the texture info be replacing itself?

Could be. When the level started it was normal. Then at about 3 or 4 second intervals the room would change slightly. Each time it would change closer and closer to what you see in the pictures above. Once it got to that stage, it stopped.

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#9 · May 12, 2009, 4:13 pm

PortalFan77 wrote:

That looks really fugly.

QFT.

My first suspect in cases like this would be a funky video driver. See if your graphics card maker has more recent drivers for your card.

You may also see this if you graphics card is overheating, but then it would be happening all the time, not just occasionally with this map. (There are more complicated / less well optimised maps out there...)

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#10 · May 12, 2009, 5:47 pm

HMW wrote:

QFT.

My first suspect in cases like this would be a funky video driver. See if your graphics card maker has more recent drivers for your card.

You may also see this if you graphics card is overheating, but then it would be happening all the time, not just occasionally with this map. (There are more complicated / less well optimised maps out there...)

I've played your map several times, it never did it there. Just on Rainbow palace. I recently updated the graphics driver (2 days ago) and it has yet to do this again.

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