Another graphic problem...

[Kazim]

I tried to search discussed problems like mine on this forum in posts, but no reslut...

I have these bugs... All the time active objects and characters look like this:

 

 

 

I think I tried everything... no result May be I tried wrong... MAy to buy old computer for GF is better? ^__^

[Du Man]

Manny's in the matrix

[Stickywulf]

In the game options, set 3d acceleration to software.

[grenadier]

I had the same problem which was also fixed by disabling directdraw. Is there any way to enable antialiasing with directdraw disabled though?? The game looks terrible otherwise on a large screen (1680x1050).

[Thrik]

I'm not sure about the thread author's problem, but I do know that very similar graphical problems can be caused by forcing anti-aliasing when using an NVIDIA graphics card. Possibly ATI cards too, but I've never owned one to test.

 

If you see my post below you can read about how to enable anti-aliasing safely on an NVIDIA card. Basically, you'll be using a very old anti-aliasing algorithm that's still hidden in the drivers; while it's no good for newer games, it works well for Grim Fandango seeing as it's roughly from Grim Fandango's era.

 

http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=160387

[elemily]

wow he looks like a ghostie! I wonder if I will get any strange errors when I try to play on my laptop

[grenadier]

I tried that and rivatuner doesn't give me a 2x2 anti-aliasing option. Right now even with directdraw disabled I'm getting random sound crashes, lockups, and all other kinds of madness. It might be worth building a really outdated rig from spare parts just to play old games like this.

 

Any idea what kind of setup would be ideal for playing this game?

 

If you see my post below you can read about how to enable anti-aliasing safely on an NVIDIA card...

[Thrik]

It depends. If you're looking to get a retro rig, I'd work out what the latest year of games I'd really want to play is and then get hardware from around that era.

 

In my case it'd probably be Escape From Monkey Island, which uses an updated version of Grim Fandango's engine and was released in 2001. So I'd get hardware that was prevalent in 2001, and indeed back in 2001 I could play Grim Fandango and all the older LucasArts classics very nicely with anti-aliasing and all.

 

I think at the time I was using a Pentium of some kind clocked at 1.2GHz, a GeForce 2 MX, and about 512mb of RAM. I might be thinking of my slightly newer machine with the processor/RAM, but I'm fairly certain on the graphics card.

 

While I'm surprised the 2x2 option isn't there and will look into it for my other post (it may have been renamed or further hidden), if you're getting other problems then it is indeed probably worth building an older machine. I'm guessing it'd be incredibly inexpensive to do so.

 

Although with that said, processors and RAM haven't fundamentally changed that much over the years unless you're using a 64-bit operating system, so it might be your graphics card and operating system that're contributing mostly to the problems.

 

What I'd do as a first step is buy a GeForce 2, make sure you're using very old drivers (newer ones will work but as Du Man's article points out, support for old games diminishes with time; for best results you want drivers that were used in 2001) and dual boot into Windows 98. You can then use the device manager to disable/enable the other graphics card in each operating system. This is, of course, assuming you have a spare AGP or PCI slot (the GeForce 2 came as both). If this fails then you can then go ahead and buy the remaining hardware needed.