Strange Recurring Graphics Error in SH III [Help?]

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2006-04-09 10:31pm

I was playing SHIII's naval academy for the extra reknown it nets you when all of the sudden this loaded on the Flak Mission.

The most obvious example of what the fuck is going on is the gauge. The texture has been borked.

I've tried changing the Detailed Texture Setting, reloading different missions, etc. My video drivers are up to date as of this morning.

Doesn't work. Even the museum thing with the ships has water that has black holes to the netherworld in it, and random textures being sucked into outer space. There are just black holes in the sky where nothing exists, black holes in the ocean where you can see your submarine fly through nothing, ships cut in half by their middle area's texture having gone another way, random holes in people, lines coming out of walls, etc.

Any idea on what's going on? Every other game seems to work fine.

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2006-04-10 12:16am

I have no clue what is going on, but I'd uninstall and then re-install the game.

Also, when did you get SHIII? Anyways, congratulations on adquiring yet another game for the obsessive compulsive.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-04-10 12:17am

When vertex shit like that happens to me, it's due to card/driver related badness. Either update your drivers or try and keep the GPU more cool by reducing load, perhaps?

LongVin · Post by **LongVin** » 2006-04-10 12:27am

I'm not sure if SHIII has it but some other ubisoft games have the option to "force hardware" or "force software" which will fix graphic errors like that.

Also did you try patching the game?

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2006-04-10 08:57pm

Patched up to highest version already. There si no Force Anything option: In fact, there's only four graphics options that are simple checkboxes if I'm seeing this right.

Updating drivers (to the same ones, but reinstalling them I guess) solved the problem for a day. Even with the drivers that appeared to help, random holes would appear in ships every now and then and disappear later.

Then it returned again as usual and occurs 100% of the time so it's not something related to conditions or the like.

Doesn't anyone else have a problem like this in any game? How do you solve it if it should already be solved?

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-04-11 02:25am

GPU overheating, if you OC it, slow it down.

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2006-04-11 06:41am

Ace Pace wrote:GPU overheating, if you OC it, slow it down.

I don't OC it, though, unless it came overclocked and then I wouldn't know. Hell, I don't even know how to OC it. Or slow it down, for that matter.

Can you slow it down from standard? I have only the vaguest knowledge about graphics cards.

Checking the Temperature settings while running SHIII, it appears that the temperature ranges from 55 to 58ish degrees Celsius, and when the computer isn't doing shit it runs at 55 degrees. And regardless of the temperature, the graphics errors occur (although, strangely, not if the game is paused, only while playing).

Is it normal for a graphics card to be "overheated" at a non-hot temperature even while not running anything graphically intensive at all? I'm not at all knowledgable here, but I generally used to associate overheating from overclocking with the card itself actually increasing in temperature, and a quick google seems to support me.