Pre-game graphical glitches
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nice :/
That's some major artifacting - usually caused by your GPU overheating. What graphics card do you have, and what temperature does it load at? You'll be able to see the temperature either in the nvidia/ati control panel, or via a utility like GPUZ.
If the artifacting isn't caused by overheating, do you have both the latest drivers available for your graphics card, and the latest distributable of Direct-X installed?
GPU - ATI Radeon X1650 Series
DirectX - Just updated to the latest off of Microsoft's website (March 2009 version of DX9.0c)
Drivers - just downloaded them less than a week ago.
I pulled up Catalyst Control Center and didn't find a place to check the temperature.
Same with GPUZ. The closest I found was the GPU Core Clock and GPU Memory Clock charts, which remained constant no matter what I did.
maybe it's a power-supply issue?
not trying to patronise you or anything, but the three common causes for artifacting like that are; heat, lack of the awesome stuff called electric current, and multi-GPU setups.
and i'm ignoring overclocking in this case, as it's a very fickel mistress.
Quoting ProphetOfCod, reply 2
I pulled up Catalyst Control Center and didn't find a place to check the temperature.
End of ProphetOfCod's quote
Click on the 'Overdrive' tab in CCC, and there'll be a dial on the right hand side with your GPU temperature.
but the three common causes for artifacting like that are; heat, lack of the awesome stuff called electric current, and multi-GPU setups.
End of quote
Actually that specific sort of texture corruption is more often due to running out of texture memory (be it due to a leak in the driver or just not having enough), in my experience.
Nope, Desktop PC.
Quoting kryo, reply 6
Actually that specific sort of texture corruption is more often due to running out of texture memory (be it due to a leak in the driver or just not having enough), in my experience.
End of kryo's quote
See, now there's a theory I can get behind. But my graphics card lists 512 MB of memory (and I presume that Demigod stores the textures on hardware rather than in software memory).
Quoting uvfragm, reply 4
Click on the 'Overdrive' tab in CCC, and there'll be a dial on the right hand side with your GPU temperature.
End of uvfragm's quote
I have no Overdrive tab. :/
Apparently I'm not driven enough to be overdriven.
Quoting BulletMagnet, reply 3
maybe it's a power-supply issue?
not trying to patronise you or anything, but the three common causes for artifacting like that are; heat, lack of the awesome stuff called electric current, and multi-GPU setups.
and i'm ignoring overclocking in this case, as it's a very fickel mistress.
not trying to patronise you or anything, but the three common causes for artifacting like that are; heat, lack of the awesome stuff called electric current, and multi-GPU setups.
and i'm ignoring overclocking in this case, as it's a very fickel mistress.
End of BulletMagnet's quote
If it were power-related, I'd expect to see it all over the place. Not just (very specifically) Impulse-related dialog boxes. The little "Press Shift-Tab to ..." box that pops up in the bottom left is also corrupted when I start, but the rest of the game (barring the Pantheon connecting box) has no problems graphically.
yeah, it appears i was wrong about my earlier statement.
that said, i have my doubts that you're filling your graphics buffer. there may be issues pushing and retrieving textures from it however.
When you close the game do you have a window roughly that size open your desktop? Maybe a firewall warning or something?
I'd like to report that I have the same problem here as the original poster.
I also have an ATI card (X1400 Mobility Radeon) and have updated my drivers. I can run the game fine on low settings, but I see precisely this kind of corruption on, for example, the box that pops up in the bottom left of the screen at game start (I don't know what this says as it is distorted). Similar distortion is evident in the box at the bottom right of the 'custom game' host screen (if I click on this another box appears in the centre of the screen, which is also distorted). All other text (e.g. on menus and such) is fine.
Quoting jochance, reply 11
When you close the game do you have a window roughly that size open your desktop? Maybe a firewall warning or something?
End of jochance's quote
Nope. Firewalls are off. No ZoneAlarm 
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