Freelancer

[Ssin]

I'm having problem with Freelancer (MS Game) and a Parhelia board. The labels in my game window are no more transparent and it does lag the hell out of it whenever I go on Crusade Engine mode.

I had a GeForce 4 Ti4200 on before and had no problems of that sort.

I installed dx 9.0a but to no good.
I have :
P4 2.26 Ghz, 512MB RDR 1066. Asus P4T533-C. Matrox Parhelia 512 128MB Retail.

Help.. if someone out there knows the answer it would be great coz the game is just cool and it looks even better with FSA 16X on (plus FSA doesn't seem to have artifacts and perf hit on the system)

[Frankfurt]

I resolved the problem by doing what it says to do with the radeon. That is to Go to display properties>settings>advanced>troubleshooting> and drop the hardware acceleration bar down one level.

When i did that, i had left the game running at the time, and changed screens, all the menu buttons were transparent, as you wanted.

[Zao]

I can run it flawlessy in full acceleration, if I have more than 1 monitor enabled.
It doesn't matter if a monitor is physically attached to the card, as long as I've got it in 2+ display mode.
But as soon as I disable the second monitor, the non-transparent text and the stutters / jitters comes back.

[Ssin]

Thanks FrankFurt. It solved my problem. Zao, I'm going to try your solution anyway. I think it better to have the full acceleration on.. though Windows might not be using that anyway...

[Marshmallowman]

Putting the slider back one notch, only turns off the hardware cursor, so you do not loose any performance

[cochese]

so does this game run well on the parhelia?


just curious.

[Frankfurt]

The game runs great on the parhelia, although im sure part of it has to do with my system configuration. If you have a newer machine, and drop the hardware slider one notch, it will work just fine, and is very playable. My problem with dropping the acceleration bar down one, is that other games i play then have mouse problems ...so annoying.

Frankfurt

[Dayblade]

What other games and apps do you play / do with your parhelia?

If you had it to do over, would you get the Parhelia or a Radeon or a ....

Dayblade

[Zao]

I would definitely stay with my Parhelia, I can't live without the IQ or my Surround desktop. 3456x864x32 is about enough desktop space for me. I'm running it on 2x17" and 1x19".
If you set Media Player Classic to VMR9 mode, one can do "Surround Cinema"
The widescreen and anamorphic movies take up the whole of the center monitor and half of each side monitor.
It's much more immersive than on single-monitor.

Now to the question...
Games: NWN, Freelancer, Morrowind, Quake3, Raven Shield, UT2k3, and just about any other game I can lay my hands on.
Apps: VS.NET in Surround, occasional dabbling in 3DS MAX (student version).

[shanebrooks]

I think Feelancer is pretty kind on the old GPU.

I've been playing Freelancer on a G450 with full detail at 800x600. Must say it looks great. (dual AMD 2400+ Tyan board). It looks as though all the right fog and blending effects are working... which was a real surprise after seeing how the G450 butchered "Return to Wolfenstein". Perhaps these new Millennium cards based on the P LX will be something for me. The P is AUD$800-1200 here and that is just silly expensive. Freelancer sure would look nice with a little AA.

.....anyhow.. I've been reading these forums for about 4 years and figured a post was in order

[az]

Welcome aboard

AZ

[GNEP]

Yup. Welcome! (I always find it a bit wierd (not in a bad way!) that there are people reading all of our posts here and so "know" us to an extent, and we have no knowledge of them/interaction with them...

[shanebrooks]

Originally posted by GNEP
Yup. Welcome! (I always find it a bit wierd (not in a bad way!) that there are people reading all of our posts here and so "know" us to an extent, and we have no knowledge of them/interaction with them...

for some reason I find pleasure in knowing I weirded someone out Since I am there also, lets do lunch in the "City of Dis" next time Baron Silas Greenback tells you to "go to hell!"

[Belwarrior]

Off Topic:
Well I was looking at this forum long before i registered myself in 2000, even though the number of posts i have is in the low hundreds *grin*
Cant really get the hang of the post whoreing that goes around here