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I just upgraded my video card from a GTX 260 to a GTX 460 and I'm having problems with Medium and High Settings in Silkroad. When I change it to anything except low settings I cannot see anything but the sky, clouds and sun. It will not display my ui, character, town, or anything else. Has anyone had this problem and could help me figure out how to get Silkroad to work correctly with my new video card in high settings?


Thanks

Iirc the "Shadow" funtion is bugged.
The moment u set it on high, sro becomes unplayable

hmmm...I have a GTX 460 or 480, can't recall which, I just never use circle shadow. That may be it.

Nvidia =

The shadows are bugged, you need to change the setting to cricle.

No, it is so retarded to generalize like that, ATI and Nvidia both had great and bad generations of cards

Fermi gen are great cards for the price


What i would do, is put in in Low settings, and then manually increase each of the sub setting to High and see which ones are causing the problem. Its probably the Shadows like others said.

turn off bloom effect, i had that issue too


also, I think I downgraded drivers or some shit to get bloom effect

Nvidia Engineering: how to ear money?? hmmm take 8800 GTX and put 9800 sticker on it with new fan and VOILAAA!! we have new card.

this my friend is fact, you can't denied it.

Fanboy fail is fail.

people instead just replying"fail" or "facepalm.jpg", just prove me wrong

a 9800 GTX is better than 8800 GTX, a 8800 GTX is better than a 9800 GT, yes

this applies for AMD(ATI) as well. so your point is just stupid

problem fixed ty =)

was it the bloom effect?

in my nvidia control panel i had it set to use the highest quality and changed it to "let the 3d application decide"

No the point here is that he got a prob and want to solve it. He don't want some retarded discussion about two vid card company's.

Yeah the shadows are bugged.

i have the same graphics card as you, i play with detailed shadows and it works fine..

Nonsense. I used detailed shadows on an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ with 512 megs of RAM and an NVIDIA FX 5200 graphics card. SRO was just a little bit laggy when there were a lot of people on the screen, mostly in towns, but it was definitely playable.

Really.

Granted, this was when SRO worked in Ubuntu. I was never able to use detailed shadows on Windows, but it worked pretty well in Ubuntu. I really don't think the problem is detailed shadows at all. It's either something in the video driver, or perhaps Windows XP (I assume Vista and 7 too, but I used XP). Ubuntu (or any Linux) uses a different graphics driver, and a different implementation of the Win32 APIs (wine).

I just wish SRO (Hackshield really) still worked in Linux...

its bugged for some, mostly the ones with newer cards, because I'm running a sweet comp, and my cousins P4, with a x800 runs at a better framerate than my pc when shadows are on high-_- So i just said **** it to shadows lmfao

I have 5870 but sro is not playable on high graphics settings

Bad programming, not lack of sufficient hardware, is the problem.

Don't upgrade your gear to play SRO on higher settings.

i bet if u give nvidia control panel control again and enable bloom effect, it will do it, i know it wasn't the shadows, it was the bloom effect, bloom effect did the exact same thing to me on my nvidia cards, u just modified other stuff and thought it was that

I know you already fixed your problem, but I had the exact some problem half a year ago too. Whenever I turned on bloom-effect, everything became unplayable. All I did, though, was to manually update my driver from nvidia's website.

also set in your nvidia cp everything to one monitor, it will improve performace with like 20% (serious), don't do it if you have a mutli-monitor setup though ^_^

In case you haven't noticed nvidia is currently kicking the crap out of ATi.
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

@OP You broke it..

Oh yeah sure,


Passmark results:

GeForce GTX 580 = 3,767
Radeon HD 6950 = 3,038


Radeon HD 6950: ~320 dollar
GeForce GTX 580: ~645 dollar


Now you choose

P.S: I won't even bother to carculate cost for the power suply of Nvidia you should know better

If you want higher performance with a single card you're going to pay more, simple as that.
I own both ATi and Nvidia, btw.
I was going to buy a 5850 until I found out the GTX 460 is cheaper, runs cooler, excels with tessellation, uses about the same power as a 5850, even SSC'd, and has similar performance with plenty of headroom for more OC'ing.
The lower 400 GPU series is quite a bit different from the fail 470/480s, you can cook an egg on one of those.
I buy whatever fits my budget with the biggest bang for the buck.

1.24 times the result vs 2.02 times the price...

I'll just go for the slightly worse one instead of paying twice as much o.O No idea which is which though, I'm such a noob with pc's

580 is significantly better [I would dig around for some benchmarks but meh] and I do agree.
I always go for the best valued card that can run the games I need it to, I don't see any need for a $300+ card unless you're doing some crazy GPU intensive programs or want E-penis points.
I think the ATi 5970 was over $600-700 in some areas when it came out, new tech will cost you arm and a leg when it first comes out, give it a couple years and it will be topped by current $200 cards... which is why I rebuild rarely.

It's the bloom effect, I had this issue with my old Nvidia 9800GT. Sometimes the bloom effect is tolerable, but most the time you will end up with this issue where everything in the game kinda just blurs together until all you can see is the background.

As far as what was mentioned about the shadows, yes they are bugged. No, they do not make the game unplayable, just kills your frame rate.