3d Menu ATI Radeon 9600xt blanks out.

[sWampy]

I enabled the 3d menus and advanced graphics on my cabinet with an ATI Radeon 9600xt with the latest non beta drivers, and when you change menus the menus disapear instead of scrowling right , then reapear. On my other machine with a gf 5800 they scrowl smoothly off to the right then back on. Are there certain versions of ati's drivers/resolutions that work better than others?

[Tom Speirs]

I enabled the 3d menus and advanced graphics on my cabinet with an ATI Radeon 9600xt with the latest non beta drivers, and when you change menus the menus disapear instead of scrowling right , then reapear.  On my other machine with a gf 5800 they scrowl smoothly off to the right then back on.  Are there certain versions of ati's drivers/resolutions that work better than others?

Sorry could you reexplain what the issue is.

In version 5.80 and above, the 3d menus should Alpha Blend zoom in and out, if you have a fast enough PC and decent graphics card. Is it not doing this?

In earlier versions of GameEx the 3d menus scroll left and right but also zoom in and out. If your using a V2 theme with an earlier version of GameEx 3d animations are automatically disabled to keep compatibility with V2 themes.

Please explain exactly what the issue is.

Thanks.

[sWampy]

Sorry could you reexplain what the issue is.

In version 5.80 and above, the 3d menus should Alpha Blend zoom in and out, if you have a fast enough PC and decent graphics card. Is it not doing this?

In earlier versions of GameEx the 3d menus scroll left and right but also zoom in and out. If your using a V2 theme with an earlier version of GameEx 3d animations are automatically disabled to keep compatibility with V2 themes.

Please explain exactly what the issue is.

Thanks.

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I have 5.81 downloaded last night, and the mce glossy skin, I guess the latest, wouldn't it get overwritten with a new version every install? I had had a gf2 gts card in this machine till last week, and figured I should stick a better card in since I was given a used ati 9600xt card. I figured it should be more than fast enough to do 3d menus on a 2600+ amd cpu. It seems to be just cutting off and new one cutting back on with a few seconds in between, transition is mostly not there, it does flicker a little. I just thougt I would throw it out and see if anyone else had the problem before I started changing drivers/etc to see if I could get it to go away. I'll be happy to provide you with any more info you need when I get home tonight and am infront of the machine itself. Maybe find someway to capture an avi of it in action.

[Tom Speirs]

I have 5.81 downloaded last night, and the mce glossy skin, I guess the latest, wouldn't it get overwritten with a new version every install?  I had had a gf2 gts card in this machine till last week, and figured I should stick a better card in since I was given a used ati 9600xt card.  I figured it should be more than fast enough to do 3d menus on a 2600+ amd cpu.  It seems to be just cutting off and new one cutting back on with a few seconds in between, transition is mostly not there, it does flicker a little.  I just thougt I would throw it out and see if anyone else had the problem before I started changing drivers/etc to see if I could get it to go away.  I'll be happy to provide you with any more info you need when I get home tonight and am infront of the machine itself.  Maybe find someway to capture an avi of it in action.

Under "Tweaks/Performance" in the config app, can you try setting it to not wait for vsync, and ensure the sleep setting is at 0.

How does that look?

Maybe this feature needs a faster CPU, the alpha belnding more uses the CPU than the graphics card, but the graphics card needs to be fast also.

[sWampy]

Under "Tweaks/Performance" in the config app, can you try setting it to not wait for vsync, and ensure the sleep setting is at 0.

How does that look?

Maybe this feature needs a faster CPU, the alpha belnding more uses the CPU than the graphics card, but the graphics card needs to be fast also.

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I'll try it tonight, and let you know. I didn't think a 2600+ was considered slow already. ;-(

[Tom Speirs]

I didn't think a 2600+ was considered slow already. ;-(

I don't consider it slow, I really don't know what's going on. All I know is the Alpha Blending is done is software and does require some horsepower.

Let me know how it works out tonight.

[sWampy]

I don't consider it slow, I really don't know what's going on. All I know is the Alpha Blending is done is software and does require some horsepower.

Let me know how it works out tonight.

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Here is what it does, it fades in and out. I was hitting select and back, rather quickly due to the short time my cell phone will record video. Sorry it's so crappy, I didn't have time to get out real video camera, and wasn't sure how to capture video of it from windows xp.

03_15_06_1854.zip

[sWampy]

5.82 didn't fix it.

[sWampy]

5.82 didn't fix it.

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This seems to have been a wierd driver problem, I reset my display driver to generic vga, I wiped all my video drivers from \windows\system32\drivers, loaded newiest ati driver, and works fine.