Odd Upside-Down Darkmod

[scarykitties]

So, due to the problems mentioned here, I modified my Darkmod doomconfig by hand, then set it as Read Only.

Specifically, I set

 

seta r_multiSamples "4"

 

seta image_anisotrophy "16"

 

seta r_swapinterval "8"

(I later thought that "swap" may be making it upside down, so I changed it back to the default of 0, but there was no change)

 

seta r_bloom "1"

 

seta s_useEAXReverb "1"

 

I believe that's all I modified.

 

When I enter the game, the floor is up, and the ceiling is down. I'm walking on the ceiling from my perspective, and, when I jump, I "fall" a bit before being sucked back to the ceiling. My controls for up/down are reversed as well (that is, moving my mouse forward makes me look down, and pulling it back makes me look up, from my upside-down perspective).

 

Uh, solutions? Hopefully?

Edited October 20, 2009 by scarykitties

[SneaksieDave]

seta r_bloom "1"

Try disabling that instead; it's been known to cause this and other problems.

[Mortem Desino]

Yep. Turn off your bloom; Constantine-world is a symptom that Bloom and/or ATI Catalyst A.I. must be turned off.

[shadow_ibix]

Had the same, with an ATI card, and turning off bloom fixed that, but turning off ATI Catalyst A.I. fixed it even better - the skyportal worked as well and I could turn on bloom again

[AluminumHaste]

seta image_anisotrophy "16"

 

seta r_swapinterval "8"

 

 

 

AFAIK Doom 3 only supports up to a value of '8' for image_anisotropy and r_swapinterval is for vertical sync; it's either 0 or 1, all other values are ignored and doom 3 uses the the vid cards system value instead.

 

r_swapInterval changes the drivers wglSwapInterval.

 

wglSwapInterval(0) disables retrace synchronization and wglSwapInterval(1) enables it. Whatever you decide to use, wglSwapInterval _should_ override any driver settings, but don't necessarily expect it to.

[scarykitties]

Uh... Why is it only half-reading my Darkmod Doomconfig file? I disabled bloom in the file, but it remains enabled in the game. Yes, I set the file to read-only, so it can't be changed. I also tried changing that other thing back to 8 instead of 16, but it still shows 16 in the game. Clearly, the game's reading a file elsewhere, but where? Doom 3's core directory? That one doesn't say 16, either, and doesn't even HAVE a bloom option!

 

EDIT: Oh, I see--it made a copy of the faulty Doomconfig, so I went back and changed that one, too.

 

How do I disable ATI's whatever-thing? It's not currently running in my taskbar, nor is it set to start with the computer.

Edited October 20, 2009 by scarykitties

[Stardog]

How do I disable ATI's whatever-thing? It's not currently running in my taskbar, nor is it set to start with the computer.

You have to install the latest drivers from their website. They don't let you download the Catalyst Control Centre seperately.

 

Now I get all this crap on startup...

[scarykitties]

Ah, found it.

 

Is disabling ATI A.I. enough? Do any other settings have to be a certain way for things to work?

[Crispy]

The only reports we've got so far indicate that Catalyst AI is the sole culprit.

 

Although, if you want to mess around with other settings to see if they can help instead, that could be useful for other people. (Yandros from TTLG reported that disabling Catalyst AI led to a crash when starting D3 on his system.)