GREEN or GREY screen error...

[Kaapo]

- Same grey screen/only background / on HP NC8000 (W2k) Ati mobility radeon 9600. Gold edition, upgraded to 1.96.
- I supopose driver issue on laptop.

[Kaapo]

-NOMAP resolved problem on ati radeon mobility 9600

[twisted]

i am getting the grey screen problem. am running 1.96.

i have tried the -nomap option. still is grey.

the PC is a crappy one. AMD 700. 256MB RAM. Geforce 1 (32MB video mem).

the thing is its an old PC but should run OFP.

When i start ofp up there's no picture (no logos nothing). then i notice it sorta flashes a different shade of blank screen, then either stays black or gives me a grey screen depending on what resolution i use.

i can alt-f4 out no problem.

am running relatively recent (2 months old) nvidia drivers.

fast writes are off. i even tried turning down video card hardware accelration but no change.

i also tried setting game to lowest resoltuion (640by400) and tried direct3d and direct3d T&L. still stuffed. i also went into config and adjuested screen refresh rate to 60/70hz which my new monitor is more than capable of.

am using directx 9c.

AGP is 4x and size is 32MB. no over clocking.

the freaky thing is it ran fine for a while then went funny after i installed an add-on. i uninstalled the addon and reinstalled ofp and patched it up again but still....

any help would be most appreciated.

next step i reinstall XP as the only reason i resurrected this old computer is to play OFP on it and use it for word processing.

[Placebo]

You're sure you've put in the -nomap parameter exactly as in the pic above?

[theavonlady]

You're sure you've put in the -nomap parameter exactly as in the pic above?

This may not help if he's overloaded with addons.

Twisted, how many MBs of addons are you starting OFP up with?

What addon did you install? What happens if you start up OFP only with the original addons?

[twisted]

wow. thanks for the fast response.

yes i double checked the -nomap option.

and i deleted all add ons so its pure 1.96 ofp.

maybe its windows? I'll try reinstalling that maybe. i can't think of anything else.

EDIT -----
after trying everything i decided to do a dxdiag and guess what? my video card coudn't run dx8 anymore. so i took it out and out in a spare and OFP runs wonderfully. So if you have grey screen problem and nothing else works it may be good to check your video card.

[AgentJonathan]

I never had to worry about this problem. i guess "querty" is on my side.