Age Of Empires III Graphic Corruption (R9600 Pro)

Grated · Sep 8, 2005, 05:43 PM

Hi

I have just downloaded the demo for Age Of Empires III and I'm unable to play the game.
When I get in the main menu of the game, there are always flashing corruption things on my screen, I have tried all kind of settings in game/catalyst drivers, but the glitches just stay (In the game menu and when playing the game). I'm currently running catalyst 5.8, I have the same problems with catalyst 5.7 .
My Radeon 9600 is not overclocked

Anyone has the same problem or has a solution?

Greetz
Grated

edit: Catalyst 5.9 didn't solve the problem

H3X4D3C1M4L · Sep 8, 2005, 10:47 PM

Well considering how new the game is I'm not surprised. Maybe you'll have to wait till 5.9, if enough people complain a fix may be implemented

buchman · Sep 9, 2005, 01:06 AM

it works perfectly fine for me, running stock 5.8 drivers

Grated · Sep 10, 2005, 01:28 AM

Anyone else has this problem? or am I the only one?

what kind of settings do you have?

Grated · Sep 10, 2005, 01:41 AM

I took 2 small video's of it:

video1
video2

tullnd · Sep 15, 2005, 12:37 AM

My x700 won't even start the game. I get an error about Direct3D initialization failed.

Zardon · Sep 15, 2005, 12:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tullnd

My x700 won't even start the game. I get an error about Direct3D initialization failed.

Anyone getting this error is due to the resolution of a widescreen panel. You must force the startup resolution the game uses to one that is supported by your monitor.

To force the game to run at a certain resolution, make a text file in the folder My Documents\My Games\Age of Empires 3\startup\user.cfg

Then designate the resolution using "xres=" and "yres=" for example...

xres=2560
yres=1600

Will start the game up in 2560x1600

personally I wouldnt even bother trying to play the demo, its rubbish, the tool panel takes up 1/3 the screen and its a total let down with substandard coding all round. Hopefully when they release the final game it might work better. My hopes are no longer high.

tullnd · Sep 15, 2005, 12:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zardon

Anyone getting this error is due to the resolution of a widescreen panel. You must force the startup resolution the game uses to one that is supported by your monitor.

To force the game to run at a certain resolution, make a text file in the folder My Documents\My Games\Age of Empires 3\startup\user.cfg

Then designate the resolution using "xres=" and "yres=" for example...

xres=2560
yres=1600

Will start the game up in 2560x1600

personally I wouldnt even bother trying to play the demo, its rubbish, the tool panel takes up 1/3 the screen and its a total let down with substandard coding all round. Hopefully when they release the final game it might work better. My hopes are no longer high.

Thank you sir! I was searching around the day the demo came out and found nothing...but hadn't looked again in a while. Can I ask where you found this information?

I know that there may be some problems with the demo, but I'd really like to try it. This is one of a very select number of games that intrigues me(hence why i bought a laptop with only a 64MB x700). I'd like to keep up on the various known issues that might affect me.

edit - and i tried it, setting the resultion to 1440x900...and I still get the same error. created the user.cfg file in the correct location, setting xres and yres.

tullnd · Sep 15, 2005, 07:43 AM

Ok, I figured it out. Zardon's fix above is valid for some, but not me. Similar idea though, about start up resolution for the game.

http://aoe3.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/...=11,23521,0,10

That has a variety of suggestions in there. Just depends how far your system got as to which one you need to do. Mine was the xml file needed to be edited.

Sep 8, 2005, 05:43 PM	#1
Grated DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Belgium Posts: 111 Rep Power: 0	Age Of Empires III Graphic Corruption (R9600 Pro) Hi I have just downloaded the demo for Age Of Empires III and I'm unable to play the game. When I get in the main menu of the game, there are always flashing corruption things on my screen, I have tried all kind of settings in game/catalyst drivers, but the glitches just stay (In the game menu and when playing the game). I'm currently running catalyst 5.8, I have the same problems with catalyst 5.7 . My Radeon 9600 is not overclocked Anyone has the same problem or has a solution? Greetz Grated edit: Catalyst 5.9 didn't solve the problem __________________ Motherboard Failure... Working on Laptop http://www.compuvents.be/ - http://www.plug2play.be/ Last edited by Grated; Sep 21, 2005 at 09:55 PM.

Sep 10, 2005, 01:28 AM	Thread Starter #4
Grated DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Belgium Posts: 111 Rep Power: 0	Anyone else has this problem? or am I the only one? what kind of settings do you have? __________________ Motherboard Failure... Working on Laptop http://www.compuvents.be/ - http://www.plug2play.be/

Sep 10, 2005, 01:41 AM	Thread Starter #5
Grated DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Belgium Posts: 111 Rep Power: 0	I took 2 small video's of it: video1 video2 __________________ Motherboard Failure... Working on Laptop http://www.compuvents.be/ - http://www.plug2play.be/

Sep 8, 2005, 10:47 PM	#2
H3X4D3C1M4L DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 6,794 Rep Power: 0	Well considering how new the game is I'm not surprised. Maybe you'll have to wait till 5.9, if enough people complain a fix may be implemented

Sep 9, 2005, 01:06 AM	#3
buchman DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: London, UK Posts: 44 Rep Power: 0	it works perfectly fine for me, running stock 5.8 drivers

Sep 15, 2005, 12:37 AM	#6
tullnd DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 41 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	My x700 won't even start the game. I get an error about Direct3D initialization failed.

Sep 15, 2005, 07:43 AM	#9
tullnd DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 41 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Ok, I figured it out. Zardon's fix above is valid for some, but not me. Similar idea though, about start up resolution for the game. http://aoe3.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/...=11,23521,0,10 That has a variety of suggestions in there. Just depends how far your system got as to which one you need to do. Mine was the xml file needed to be edited.