Graphics Glitch

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jrlauer
545 Posts
Posted May 07, 2009
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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reepblue
894 Posts
Posted May 07, 2009
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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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mazk1985
135 Posts
Posted May 07, 2009
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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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jrlauer
545 Posts
Posted May 09, 2009
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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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PortalFan77
432 Posts
Posted May 09, 2009
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That looks really fugly.
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p0rtalplayer
1,366 Posts
Posted May 09, 2009
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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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jrlauer
545 Posts
Posted May 11, 2009
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PortalFan77 wrote:
That looks really fugly.

You should try playing it when it looks like this.

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jrlauer
545 Posts
Posted May 11, 2009
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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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HMW
806 Posts
Posted May 12, 2009
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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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jrlauer
545 Posts
Posted May 12, 2009
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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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msleeper
4,136 Posts
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Posted May 12, 2009
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Post your system specs. Your system may be overheating, this is a video card/graphics issue.
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CabooseJr
67 Posts
Posted May 13, 2009
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This is probably why they call it rainbow palace.
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Hober
1,180 Posts
Posted May 13, 2009
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msleeper wrote:
Post your system specs. Your system may be overheating, this is a video card/graphics issue.

That was my first thought.

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jrlauer
545 Posts
Posted May 14, 2009
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I'm currently using a computer at work, so I'll post the specs in the next day or so.

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A.M.M.D.
69 Posts
Posted May 18, 2009
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i know this bug it has nithing to do with the game more then witth you pc
a shot lagg than some texturs gone wrong

happend to me in zeno clash:

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