Graphics glitches

Chinghis

Dalayan Adventurer
Hey, folks, I'm running SoD on my wife's Vista machine (Athlon processor). I know how to set affinity to I can actually play the game, but I've never gotten good graphics on it. The video card is an Nvidia GeForce 6100 built-in, I've updated the driver, and fiddled with the graphics settings in both places (in-game options, and that screen before you get in the game).

Two things - I get no spell effects, although my characters go through the motions. I've turned particle effects to High, with no effect. Since I'm using this to dual-box a Druid, it'd be nice to get the visual cue that a spell is going off.

Second thing is that textures are off sometimes. Boats with fantastic tapestry patterns instead of the wood they're supposed to have. Skeletons with huge dark heads, stuff like that. I'll see if I can get a screenshot for Wiz, since I know he likes those ... I've played with texture settings, too, caching, etc.

Any ideas? I'm sure this is either a simple thing, or just not possible because of the video card. I saw some references to an Nvidia (8100?) card that just doesn't work with SoD. Thanks, folks.
 
iirc there are just somethings you cant fix because of your video card. like i can see target rings, but i cant see portals. and a good handful of other things.

spells i turn off myself so i dont fall into an epileptic seizure :dumbsad:


im sure your issues are fixable, but im not sure how fixable w/ your video card. maybe screenies would help determine your issue?
 
Didnt' get a chance to get a screenshot last night, but it's a pretty common thing, i think. You know, where the skeletons have big blobby heads instead of what they're supposed to have. I'll keep fiddling around, maybe try re-copy the files over again from my other machine.
 
OK, finally got a screenshot and Flickr'd it:

See if I can figure out a tag to get it to display. Kind of a boring screenshot, but that's what I got - nothing. I'm casting in this shot - no sparklie spell effects.

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OK, if that ain't the crappiest screenshot I've ever posted, I don't know what is ...

Anyway, anyone have any ideas, other than re-installing everything? Is it likely that I'm just hosed, due to my graphics card?
 
/showspell on?

OK, that's a new command for me. Given that it's turned on (I assume) on the machine that I copied over the files from, not sure how that would have been turned off, but I'll give it a try. thanks.

If that fixes the blob-head skels, though, I'll be surprised! But, one step at a time, you know!
 
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