White textures? Black/corrupted screens? Crashes to desktop?

[stiv]

This is a problem with your video driver and poor OpenGL support. Suggestions:

Turn off Aero or any compositing window manager.

Update to latest manufacturer's latest video driver.

[MetalWarrior95]

I have almost the same problem but its on my dads laptop...
Laptop Configuration:

Aspire 1300
mobile AMD Athlon(tm)XP 1400 plus 1.20 - GHz
352 MB of RAM (Unknown type of ram)
Chip Type: S3-VIA Twister(TM)BIOSversion:6.22.90.18
System memory 348 MB - Video memory 8/16/32 MB
S3 Driver/Display driver: s3gnb.dll 6.13.10.1068-13.93.25 (DX8)
MiniportDriver s3gnbm.sys 6.13.10.1068-13.93.35
OpenGL ICD:nbicdnt.dll2.40.86
DirectX/DirectX 9.0
DirectX Media 6.05.2600.2180
Resolution; 1024x768(Normal Resolution) - Color quality Highest (32 bit)

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I dont know what i should to do, this laptop is old more or less then 7 years!
I dont know if is ever have been updated...Maybe i should update just windows and drivers,dont know!
Please search for solution!

[stiv]

Chip Type: S3-VIA

S3 chipsets are famous for their poor OpenGL support. Good luck!

[MetalWarrior95]

Well if i can find newer drivers fir S3 then probavly it might work if they updated?
When Warzone 2100 will get DirectX support,plz?Or atleast make in cellshade style textures for the future?

If you dont know whats cell shade then heres the answer:

Cell Shade is an type of texture & graphical. Its uses to make game more like cartoons and takes less graphical memory because of simplistic colours and there are no many varients of colors used in textures. Because of that aproach there are special designed game engines for more better performance in game and faster loading plus quality of frame rates per second. some games that uses that tech, for ex-sample XXX,TMT,Warsow(Freeware FPS game using Q3 engine)...

Old games used similar aproach...So plz do it!

[KukY]

When Warzone 2100 will get DirectX support,plz?

In short: Never. Why? Because it isn't open source.

That Cell Shade of your's; it would only save your GFX card RAM. Performance change would be unoticable.

Updating drivers? Be happy that you can run WZ with that at all...

[MetalWarrior95]

Well rip, too bad...
Il have no change to play warzone 2100 each time i comes in a visit to my dad.My parents are divorced.
But if Medal Of Honor Allied Assault Warchest(Special Collection MOHAA with both expansion pack) works just fine to me on my laptop: 1.2GHZ Mobile AMD Athlon 1400 plus, S3 VIA Twister 8/16/32MB & 352MB of RAM then why it dosent warzone play with textures?Also why warzone 2100 needs far more sistem requirments then 1.10 version?

[KukY]

Also why warzone 2100 needs far more sistem requirments then 1.10 version?

Because new features have been added.

[Crymson]

Well rip, too bad...
Il have no change to play warzone 2100 each time i comes in a visit to my dad.My parents are divorced.
But if Medal Of Honor Allied Assault Warchest(Special Collection MOHAA with both expansion pack) works just fine to me on my laptop: 1.2GHZ Mobile AMD Athlon 1400 plus, S3 VIA Twister 8/16/32MB & 352MB of RAM then why it dosent warzone play with textures?Also why warzone 2100 needs far more sistem requirments then 1.10 version?

As stiv pointed out, the openGL drivers for your S3 are badly done.
Keep playing 1.10.

[MetalWarrior95]

I wanted to play on laptop, because i wanted to be with my friends in caffe bar that has wlan and that we could surf the internet or play W2100 trought WLAN ;-(

[Christheturtle]

Not really much else we can do.

[drgnrdr]

There is another reason for a black screen when starting warzone. I just had the problem and managed to fix it. The problem was I had a corrupted download from using a download accelerator in firefox(firedownload.) When I downloaded it again without using the accelerator and installed warzone. Game worked fine.

drgnrdr

[Buginator]

There is another reason for a black screen when starting warzone. I just had the problem and managed to fix it. The problem was I had a corrupted download from using a download accelerator in firefox(firedownload.) When I downloaded it again without using the accelerator and installed warzone. Game worked fine.

drgnrdr

Um, no, that shouldn't be possible.

The installer does a CRC check on all files to prevent this.

[drgnrdr]

Buginator
Um, no, that shouldn't be possible.

The installer does a CRC check on all files to prevent this.

It's done this on the last 4 updates (2.3.1a on.) Not saying your wrong just saying when I downloaded the game using the accelerator and then installed I had a black screen when I tried to start the game. The only way to get out of it was to crash my laptop on purpose. I had to uninstall then download again without using the accelerator. Everthing worked fine after that.

drgnrdr

[flepmelg]

hi all,

I just reinstalled ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop, and thus WZ.
Since i reinstalled everything. WZ loads in a black scree and freezes my system
openGL is working properly, since compiz is supporting all advanced graphics.
any1 has any idea what els could be causing this?
thanks in advance


System specs:

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administrator@laptop:~$ sudo dmidecode
[sudo] password for administrator: 
# dmidecode 2.9
SMBIOS 2.4 present.
19 structures occupying 726 bytes.
Table at 0x000F0260.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
	Vendor: Acer
	Version: V2.84
	Release Date: 04/30/2007
	Address: 0xE48B0
	Runtime Size: 112464 bytes
	ROM Size: 1024 kB
	Characteristics:
		PCI is supported
		PC Card (PCMCIA) is supported
		PNP is supported
		BIOS is upgradeable
		BIOS shadowing is allowed
		ESCD support is available
		Boot from CD is supported
		Selectable boot is supported
		Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
		8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
		Printer services are supported (int 17h)
		CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
		ACPI is supported
		USB legacy is supported
		AGP is supported
		Smart battery is supported
		BIOS boot specification is supported
		Targeted content distribution is supported

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
	Manufacturer: Acer            
	Product Name: Aspire 3100     
	Version: V2.84
	Serial Number: LXAX60X010713044451601
	UUID: 61663361-3832-6631-3761-0016D4C6F58B
	Wake-up Type: Power Switch
	SKU Number: Not Specified
	Family: Not Specified

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes
Base Board Information
	Manufacturer: Acer
	Product Name: Navarro
	Version: N/A
	Serial Number: LXAX60X010713044451601

Handle 0x0003, DMI type 3, 17 bytes
Chassis Information
	Manufacturer: Acer
	Type: Notebook
	Lock: Not Present
	Version: N/A
	Serial Number: LXAX60X010713044451601          
	Asset Tag:                                 
	Boot-up State: Safe
	Power Supply State: Safe
	Thermal State: Safe
	Security Status: None
	OEM Information: 0x00000000

Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 35 bytes
Processor Information
	Socket Designation: Socket M2/S1G1
	Type: Central Processor
	Family: Opteron
	Manufacturer: AMD
	ID: C2 0F 04 00 FF FB 8B 07
	Signature: Family 15, Model 76, Stepping 2
	Flags:
		FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)
		VME (Virtual mode extension)
		DE (Debugging extension)
		PSE (Page size extension)
		TSC (Time stamp counter)
		MSR (Model specific registers)
		PAE (Physical address extension)
		MCE (Machine check exception)
		CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported)
		APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported)
		SEP (Fast system call)
		MTRR (Memory type range registers)
		PGE (Page global enable)
		MCA (Machine check architecture)
		CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported)
		PAT (Page attribute table)
		PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension)
		CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported)
		MMX (MMX technology supported)
		FXSR (Fast floating-point save and restore)
		SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions)
		SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2)
	Version: Engineering Sample
	Voltage: 1.4 V
	External Clock: 200 MHz
	Max Speed: 1800 MHz
	Current Speed: 1800 MHz
	Status: Populated, Enabled
	Upgrade: Other
	L1 Cache Handle: Not Provided
	L2 Cache Handle: 0x0005
	L3 Cache Handle: Not Provided
	Serial Number: Not Specified
	Asset Tag: Not Specified
	Part Number: Not Specified

Handle 0x0005, DMI type 7, 19 bytes
Cache Information
	Socket Designation: L2 Cache
	Configuration: Enabled, Socketed, Level 2
	Operational Mode: Write Back
	Location: Internal
	Installed Size: 512 KB
	Maximum Size: 1024 KB
	Supported SRAM Types:
		Burst
		Pipeline Burst
	Installed SRAM Type: Synchronous
	Speed: Unknown
	Error Correction Type: Unknown
	System Type: Unknown
	Associativity: Unknown

Handle 0x0006, DMI type 9, 13 bytes
System Slot Information
	Designation: PCMCIA Slot0
	Type: 32-bit PC Card (PCMCIA)
	Current Usage: Unknown
	Length: Long
	ID: Adapter 0, Socket 0
	Characteristics:
		5.0 V is provided
		3.3 V is provided
		PC Card-16 is supported
		Cardbus is supported
		Hot-plug devices are supported

Handle 0x0007, DMI type 10, 6 bytes
On Board Device Information
	Type: Video
	Status: Disabled
	Description: ATI RS485M

Handle 0x0008, DMI type 10, 6 bytes
On Board Device Information
	Type: Sound
	Status: Disabled
	Description: HD-Audio

Handle 0x0009, DMI type 15, 29 bytes
System Event Log
	Area Length: 16 bytes
	Header Start Offset: 0x0000
	Header Length: 16 bytes
	Data Start Offset: 0x0010
	Access Method: General-purpose non-volatile data functions
	Access Address: 0x0000
	Status: Valid, Not Full
	Change Token: 0x00000002
	Header Format: Type 1
	Supported Log Type Descriptors: 3
	Descriptor 1: POST error
	Data Format 1: POST results bitmap
	Descriptor 2: Single-bit ECC memory error
	Data Format 2: Multiple-event
	Descriptor 3: Multi-bit ECC memory error
	Data Format 3: Multiple-event

Handle 0x000A, DMI type 16, 15 bytes
Physical Memory Array
	Location: System Board Or Motherboard
	Use: System Memory
	Error Correction Type: None
	Maximum Capacity: 4 GB
	Error Information Handle: Not Provided
	Number Of Devices: 2

Handle 0x000B, DMI type 17, 27 bytes
Memory Device
	Array Handle: 0x000A
	Error Information Handle: No Error
	Total Width: 128 bits
	Data Width: 64 bits
	Size: 512 MB
	Form Factor: DIMM
	Set: 1
	Locator: S1
	Bank Locator: Bank 0
	Type: DDR2
	Type Detail: Synchronous
	Speed: Unknown
	Manufacturer: Not Specified
	Serial Number: Not Specified
	Asset Tag: Not Specified
	Part Number: Not Specified

Handle 0x000C, DMI type 17, 27 bytes
Memory Device
	Array Handle: 0x000A
	Error Information Handle: No Error
	Total Width: 128 bits
	Data Width: 64 bits
	Size: 512 MB
	Form Factor: DIMM
	Set: 2
	Locator: S2
	Bank Locator: Bank 1
	Type: DDR2
	Type Detail: Synchronous
	Speed: Unknown
	Manufacturer: Not Specified
	Serial Number: Not Specified
	Asset Tag: Not Specified
	Part Number: Not Specified

Handle 0x000D, DMI type 18, 23 bytes
32-bit Memory Error Information
	Type: OK
	Granularity: Unknown
	Operation: Unknown
	Vendor Syndrome: Unknown
	Memory Array Address: Unknown
	Device Address: Unknown
	Resolution: Unknown

Handle 0x000E, DMI type 19, 15 bytes
Memory Array Mapped Address
	Starting Address: 0x00000000000
	Ending Address: 0x0003FFFFFFF
	Range Size: 1 GB
	Physical Array Handle: 0x000A
	Partition Width: 0

Handle 0x000F, DMI type 20, 19 bytes
Memory Device Mapped Address
	Starting Address: 0x00000000000
	Ending Address: 0x0001FFFFFFF
	Range Size: 512 MB
	Physical Device Handle: 0x000B
	Memory Array Mapped Address Handle: 0x000E
	Partition Row Position: 2
	Interleave Position: 1
	Interleaved Data Depth: 6

Handle 0x0010, DMI type 22, 26 bytes
Portable Battery
	Location: 1st Battery
	Manufacturer: PANASONIC 
	Name: PANASONIC 
	Chemistry: Lithium Ion
	Design Capacity: 3900 mWh
	Design Voltage: 14800 mV
	SBDS Version: Not Specified
	Maximum Error: Unknown
	SBDS Serial Number: 0000
	SBDS Manufacture Date: 1980-00-00
	OEM-specific Information: 0x00000000

Handle 0x0011, DMI type 32, 11 bytes
System Boot Information
	Status: No errors detected

Handle 0x0012, DMI type 127, 4 bytes
End Of Table

administrator@laptop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80)
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 83)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller (rev 80)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
06:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
06:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB-712/4 Cardbus Controller (rev 10)
06:04.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Memory Stick Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
06:04.2 Unclassified device [0005]: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Secure Digital Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
06:04.3 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc: (rev 01)
06:04.4 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc SD/MMC Card Reader Controller (rev 01)

administrator@laptop:~$ lspci -nn | grep VGA
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M] [1002:5975]

[Buginator]

No, openGL isn't working correctly, disable compiz, then it should work OK.