Re: C&C Generals missing textures

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From: Neil Adamson
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:58

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"DemonTraitor" <demontraitor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Command & Conquer Generals problem.
>
> My kids have a PIII 1.0g
> ASUS V7100 MX400 64mb video card
> 400mb memory.
> Windows 2000 SP4
> DX9.0b
>
> when playing the game the landscape keeps disappearing leaving a black
> ground with just the buildings showing. this only happens when the
> mouse is left hovering over buildings for the building labels to
> appear and you are building something. however, when the building has
> finished the landscape stays black!!!
>
> the game is patched to the max.
>
> any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Demon

We had a 64MB GeForce2 MX400. It did exactly this with ZH (running
abysamally slow with Generals - I am told EA tweaked things in Generals to
try and maintain the game speed at the expense of graphics).

I dropped in a 64MB Ti card and everything was sweet. In fact shortly
thereafter I upgraded just about everything else as well and now Generals,
ZH, MOLHAA and Call of Duty couldn't be sweeter.

Basically you need to ditch the MX chipset.

Neil A

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Subject: Re: C&C Generals missing textures
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