Help Needed

[Noodles]

On my Team Fortress 2 alot of things dont show up this includes:
Medic's Healer Beam
Fire coming off of someone when they are on fire.
Teleporter particle effects
Spy's smoke from when the come out of disguise
Trails after leaving a teleporter

Is there anyway to fix this or do i just need a new Graphics Card?

[Dr. Boogie]

Is there some particle effect graphics option that was turned off by accident?

[Noodles]

None that I know of, I might mess with some things in the video and see if it works. And if it dosent i will just reinstall.

[Noodles]

After screen capping everything that needed fixed everything works now >:( If this happens again Ill say.

[Fathom Zero]

Yeah, those are all particle related issues. I have the problem with my 360 copy. The textures are all weird, too. It's like some sort of confetti land. But it was like that the first time I popped in the disc, so I just don't get it.

[Noodles]

Never mind it still needs fixed.

[Noodles]

Yeah, those are all particle related issues. I have the problem with my 360 copy. The textures are all weird, too. It's like some sort of confetti land. But it was like that the first time I popped in the disc, so I just don't get it.
Weird :\

[Noodles]

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o233/stapleboard/tele.jpg

:(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o233/stapleboard/FIRE1.jpghttp://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o233/stapleboard/FIRE2.jpg

[Noodles]

AND
http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o233/stapleboard/fix1.jpg

[Noodles]

I have even tried re-installing.

[executioneer]

did u update ur drivers

[Noodles]

I think :/

[MetalMilitia]

Does the game run like crap? (what's your video card?)

I tried playing TF2 at work before and had similar problems.

I believe they call it a "LOD" based system, which basically means the engine will monitor the game's performance and try and cut out as many effects as possible to keep performance above a certain threshold. Particularly things like particle effects are removed as they can have the largest impact on frame rate.

[Noodles]

Does the game run like crap? (what's your video card?)

I tried playing TF2 at work before and had similar problems.

I believe they call it a "LOD" based system, which basically means the engine will monitor the game's performance and try and cut out as many effects as possible to keep performance above a certain threshold. Particularly things like particle effects are removed as they can have the largest impact on frame rate.

My video card is: ATI Radeon X1250

[Fathom Zero]

Has it always been this way, and if it hasn't, have you installed anything recently or is there anything lurking around in the processes that shouldn't be there?

[Noodles]

Has it always been this way, and if it hasn't, have you installed anything recently or is there anything lurking around in the processes that shouldn't be there?
1:It hasent always been that way
2:Hotfixes or updates?
3:Like what?

[Fathom Zero]

ANY programs. ANYTHING. Anything you could think of that could possibly affect it.

[Noodles]

ITS ALL OVER! Lock this thread and thanks for the help :D

[Pub Lover]

Chatroom this thread but edit all the posts so they are in duckspeak.

[Esuohlim]

No deal but as a compromise I changed Noodles' avatar into a duck I hope that's of equal value to you.

[Noodles]

DEAL

[Chojin]

maybe you should tell us how you fixed it.

[Fathom Zero]

Does this mean chojin has problems of his own? :3rdperson3rdperson

[Chojin]

no, my problem was trying to get two computers from the same IP to connect to steam games simultaneously, and that problem just fixed itself after I left it alone for a day. Coincendentally, steam's support team was worthless.

But since this is a forum and you were asking us for help, you should GIVE BACK to the community by letting others know how you fixed your problem. It's more or less why forums were invented in the first place.

You tremendous fuck face.

[Dr. Octogonopus]

Yeah, those are all particle related issues. I have the problem with my 360 copy. The textures are all weird, too. It's like some sort of confetti land. But it was like that the first time I popped in the disc, so I just don't get it.

I've noticed the confetti crap too on my copy. It's gotten worse over time, too, like now the antlions have confetti skin, and alex is a hovering pile of random textures. The only game that works 100% is TF2, and portal works pretty well, except the pipes have the confetti thing. I'm very disappointed; otherwise it's the best game I own in my eyes.

[Fathom Zero]

I believe mine was DOA when I got it on Christmas. It makes Half Life 2 crash.

[Chojin]

We went over to one of Emily's relatives' houses for a Christmas gift exchange thing and their kid had a 360. He'd been having a problem where after about 10 minutes of gameplay, a halftone dot pattern would appear on most of the textures and the sky in COD4. Later that night he got red ring'd.

So maybe all the graphical fuckups (not the ones related to particle effects) are due to the mainboard heating up?

[Dr. Octogonopus]

That's a good point, Chojin. I never though of that. I assumed it was because I got it used..... I'll check it out.

[Fathom Zero]

No other game does this for me. But yeah, that does make loads of sense. I'm shipping off my 360 anyway, it's refusing to read any discs anymore without making horrible scratching noises.

[Noodles]

maybe you should tell us how you fixed it.
Ok then:
1:Updated Drivers
2:Messed with some video settings
3:Cleaned The TF2 Folder deleting things like skins that did not work.
4:Re-installation

Edit: I did not get the rings around the telleporter but I still have trails following me so good enough.
Also, sometimes i do a re-installation if it quits working.