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Railgun Trail?
« on: October 08, 2011, 09:21:11 AM »
I swapped out my old video card to a newer(ish) ATI HD 5750. The card is great, but I seem to have lost the railgun trail. Everything else is fine, it only seems to affect the railgun. Anyone know a setting I could tweak/change to get that beautiful blue corkscrew back? Thanks!
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Re: Railgun Trail?
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2011, 10:34:32 AM »
Did you somehow turn off particles display? set cl_particles 1
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Re: Railgun Trail?
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2011, 11:20:05 AM »
Did you somehow turn off particles display? set cl_particles 1


I thought that would have been it, but no, it is still set to 1. Thanks though.
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Re: Railgun Trail?
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2011, 08:16:38 PM »
Absativly posolutely everything else ok?  blaster?  rocket smoke trail?


Is it just the outside spiral, or the core too?

Nothing else,  just a blank when you fire?


What client are you using?
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Re: Railgun Trail?
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2012, 04:25:23 AM »
I'm interested to hear if/how you ever got this resolved?  I am having the exact same issue.  I am using an hp laptop with ATI graphics.

Client is Aprq2 v1.211.  Oddly enough, 3.20 client it works fine, and aprq2 v1.20 it works fine.

One thing I noticed, in v1.211 if I stare at the floor and fire, I can kind of see a blue flash, so I don't think its "turned off", there is just no trail.

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« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2012, 09:55:20 AM »
I think it is in the way ATI's hands their parties. There may be a setting in the card's option that corrects it.
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Re: Railgun Trail?
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2012, 01:39:11 PM »
If it's an ATI thing it's new, my ATI 3850 shows Q2 as expected.

You deleted your config.cfg after installing the card?  I'd also turn off the AI, it has never helped me.
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« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2012, 06:16:48 PM »
I'm starting to think its a driver bug for the sole reason that only me and the OP seem to be having this issue.  It is odd that AprQ2 v1.20 is fine, as is vanilla 3.20; its only the newest AprQ2 (1.211) that has this problem.  Also, Apr software rendering its fine there too.

Dammit......if not for this ONE irritaing bug, this is the client I would be using and call it a day.  I'll figure it out somehow.  One thing I though of, but didn't work so well, is at some point in the not-to-distant past, ATI driver broke openGL.  Since this laptop is my only computer and its a prebuild unit, driver options are very slim.  I read on the net of some people dropping the atioglxx.dll from various driver versions in the game folder as a workaround for ATI's -at the time- broken opengl.  Problem is I tried one or two and Apr wouldn't even run.  No error, it just disappeared?!?!?

As far as driver settings, don't see much....AA and AF and a few other small settings.  Nothing seems to help.  If anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears...

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« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2012, 07:44:48 PM »
I just tried the latest version of ARQ2 and I get a rail trail.  I have a Radeon 3850 with driver 12.4.
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Re: Railgun Trail?
« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2012, 01:04:00 PM »
Here is another thread about missing particles, although it doesn't look like they got the issue resolved.
http://tastyspleen.net/quake/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=597d4c6ea524bea5181f3ec8e55260bf&topic=18517.0
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« Reply #10 on: August 03, 2012, 09:29:12 AM »
Here is another thread about missing particles, although it doesn't look like they got the issue resolved.
http://tastyspleen.net/quake/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=597d4c6ea524bea5181f3ec8e55260bf&topic=18517.0

Hmmm...interesting.  It definately seems to be related to ATI cards, but I can't help but wonder if it truly is a driver "bug" or a bug in the latest AprQ2?  Only reason that makes me suspicious, is in the last few days I have been doing a lot of tweaking and tring things out to find the best client for me so that I can get back into it.  The ONLY client that doesn't have the rail trails is AprQ2, and the only version that exhibits this behavior is 1.211.  All these other clients work fine:  3.20 both SW and GL, ProQuake, R1Q2 and R1GL, Apr 1.211 SW, Apr 1.20 SW and GL....

Anyway, I have settled on AprQ2 v1.20.  Seems to work pretty good for me and my needs, with no real issues.

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