Author Topic: Can't see particles?? (Read 8489 times)

metaL · « **Reply #15 on:** March 11, 2012, 05:53:08 PM »

God you guys suck. So far only Sgt. Dick has provided me with ANY real help on this issue.

lol. anyway jesse i'm still using aprq2, but r1 and regular q2 also have no particles. I'll figure it out soon enough

haunted · « **Reply #16 on:** March 11, 2012, 06:47:48 PM »

True that. Peak around in your radeon settings.. I know nothing about it, but that's my best guess that it's perhaps something in there but I wouldn't know what.. what I meant by gfx settings, not in q2.

Acer · « **Reply #17 on:** March 12, 2012, 07:27:24 AM »

The guy who can't see his particles says we suck,

lol. I think it has to be something R1GL/OpenGL related so (since r1q2 doesn't allow software mode) start a normal install of quake2.exe and switch to software mode to see if those nice pixelated particles show up at all. While faster, some people seem to have issues with R1GL so if you haven't already switch back to stock GL.

haunted · « **Reply #18 on:** March 12, 2012, 08:15:03 AM »

3) of elysium's is a good idea I think.

Acer's idea sucks.

Whirlingdervish · « **Reply #19 on:** March 12, 2012, 09:13:00 AM »

the config looks fine at first glance..

you might try upping the particle size ones to 8 or 16 and see if you see anything..
perhaps they're just very small at 1 pixel on that large res:)

metaL · « **Reply #20 on:** March 12, 2012, 01:55:02 PM »

Acer obviously I was kidding lol, no hate. I can't help it if Sgt. Dick's post was super helpful.

Going to update drivers now.

metaL · « **Reply #21 on:** March 12, 2012, 02:33:30 PM »

Apparently I'm 100% up to date. Guess i'll re-install? This is definitely not a pak file issue.

Whirlingdervish · « **Reply #22 on:** March 12, 2012, 02:44:15 PM »

try installing q2 to a clean folder, then unzipping this over the top of it:

http://ir.tastyspleen.net/files/r1q2_starter.zip

I know that _should_ work as is, so if it doesn't we can narrow it down to not q2 config related.

Acer · « **Reply #23 on:** March 12, 2012, 02:58:13 PM »

Very strange, hmm perhaps you could try it with an autoexec.cfg:

set cl_particles 1 //for r1q2+Q2
set gl_particle 0 //aprq2
set gl_picmap 0 //you have your gl_picmip all the way up to 5 (wtf)
set gl_particle_min_size "2"
set gl_particle_max_size "32"
set gl_particle_size "32"

IMO the problem with r1q2starters and such is what works well with one q2 client won't work or can cause problems with others.
That's why i suggested to fall back on stock Q2 and GL to test, as it doesn't recognize a lot of those cvars and is "safer" when troubleshooting.

ex · « **Reply #24 on:** March 12, 2012, 07:00:01 PM »

Holy shit, metaL's still around?

metaL · « **Reply #25 on:** March 12, 2012, 07:28:51 PM »

Thanks for the input dervish, very appreciated.

Acer, that gl_picmip was just a quick experiment. I use 0 now, although I always used to use 7 haha (i've never played q2 on a decent setup in my life)

ex: yeah man, gonna try to get my settings right and aim back fucking around on DM and then play TDM

metaL · « **Reply #26 on:** March 15, 2012, 03:22:12 PM »

fresh install, extracted those files dervish, no particles. i'm clueless.

metaL · « **Reply #27 on:** March 16, 2012, 07:11:30 PM »

looks like I've stumped the q2 community. Can I claim first to do this since b100d came back for the 97th time?

metaL · « **Reply #28 on:** March 16, 2012, 07:12:35 PM »

Also, quadz, I wanted to post one more time so that you can fully appreciate my avatar.

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