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[SOLVED!] MAJOR Help With Latest GZDoom
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 8:51 am
by cmw1986
I have encountered an incredibly huge issue with the newest devbuilds of GZDoom. The problem is every sprite within the normal unedited Doom 2 wad all appear invisible ingame and I have no clue whatsoever how to fix it!. I'm 100% positive there is nothing wrong with the wad file, but when I try to play the game in hardware mode the sprites are, like I said, totally invisible. Everything else is perfectly fine and the sprites do however appear visible in software mode, but I prefer playing the game in OpenGL mode.
Do I need to update my OpenGL hardware or something?. If yes, then how do I do that?. A step-by-step tutorial would really help me a lot with this serious problem. Also, out of curiosity, does anyone else have this "invisible sprite bug" too?.
(Note: the sprites are invisible in both x32 and x64 versions on my computer).
-cmw1986
Re: MAJOR Help With Latest GZDoom
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 9:11 am
by Graf Zahl
If you have an old ATI card with OpenGL 3.x, yes you need a driver update. Some were quite broken.
Re: MAJOR Help With Latest GZDoom
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 9:19 am
by cmw1986
So how do I improve that?. Do you know any good sites in particular?.
In case if you need to know, I use a flatscreen Windows 7 (with the "tower" built into the screen).
Re: MAJOR Help With Latest GZDoom
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 10:33 am
by wildweasel
cmw1986 wrote:So how do I improve that?. Do you know any good sites in particular?.
In case if you need to know, I use a flatscreen Windows 7 (with the "tower" built into the screen).
If you know the manufacturer of your computer's video hardware, it is best to go to the manufacturer's website. This can be easily checked by opening the Device Manager (you can search for it in the Start Menu's search box), then opening the "Display adapters" branch. If it's NVIDIA or ATI/AMD, go to the respective company's website to find your drivers. If it's Intel, you should probably get the driver from whoever manufactured your PC.
Re: MAJOR Help With Latest GZDoom
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2017 10:03 am
by cmw1986
Umm, just a question...what kind of graphics driver does GZDoom (now with zscript implemented) require?.
Re: MAJOR Help With Latest GZDoom
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2017 10:17 am
by Caligari87
Just get the latest drivers for your graphics card.

Re: MAJOR Help With Latest GZDoom
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2017 12:11 pm
by cmw1986
I've done that and it still doesn't work!!!
I'm currently using an AMD Radeon HD 6320 Graphics card/driver/whatever and all the sprites are still invisible!!!...what the frickin' heck is going on here?!?!?!

Re: MAJOR Help With Latest GZDoom
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2017 12:19 pm
by wildweasel
You got them from
the AMD support site, right? Your chipset
shouldn't have problems like that, as it does support (or claim to support, anyway) OpenGL 4.4 on the latest available drivers...
Re: MAJOR Help With Latest GZDoom
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2017 12:30 pm
by cmw1986
Then what graphics card/driver should I be using then?. If it's not the graphics card, then my other guess would probably be that stupid zscript addition!!!. It's gotta be one or the other.

Re: MAJOR Help With Latest GZDoom
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2017 12:33 pm
by wildweasel
Okay okay, calm down, please. Your video card is fine, and ZScript would not do this to you. Could you please
install and run Speccy and post the specs that it shows?
Re: MAJOR Help With Latest GZDoom
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2017 12:52 pm
by cmw1986
Is this what you wanted?:
Re: MAJOR Help With Latest GZDoom
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2017 5:03 pm
by wildweasel
cmw1986 wrote:Is this what you wanted?:
Speccy Snapshot.zip
Yes, exactly what I needed. Going by this data, you seem to be running some very old driver software for your video card.
I think this is the one you need, if I'm not reading these specs incorrectly, that is. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and try downloading the Radeon Software Crimson Edition Beta. If it gives you an option to perform a clean install, do it.
Re: MAJOR Help With Latest GZDoom
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 9:24 am
by cmw1986
Well what do you know, it worked!!!. PROBLEM SOLVED!
@wildweasel: I'm very, very, VERY sorry about my outburst yesterday. I can get pretty livid quickly when something like this happens to me and next time I'll try harder to be more calm. So for that, I apologize.
Now let's forget our troubles and celebrate with a nice cold glass of caffeine-free root beer!.
Peace!
-cmw1986
Re: [SOLVED!] MAJOR Help With Latest GZDoom
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 9:47 am
by wildweasel
Excellent, I'm glad we could get that resolved.