lost all smoke and explosions.....GF3

[Gamer]

I have had the game from day one....so dont take it that im a n00b.... I have tried all the settings in the prefrences with no luck for some reason i have lost my Blood effects,smoke effects and explosions......like i said i have checked the check boxes next to these options in prefrences..and also made sure everything was activated ingame(well the blood at least)
..no use still not there......
.........Is anyone else having this problem.......

My Sys specs......
***1.4 t bird (760chipset)
*** 384mbDDR
*** ***ASUS v8200 GF3 (22.80 det. 4)
*** ***DX 8.1 final
nothing is clocked.....

Any Idea's as to what's wrong or any similar problems anyone???

[Gamer]

BUMP......WTF no one has even looked??

Cheers.

[Hnd]

Have the same problem with Dx8.1 and TNT card drv v12.43 OFP v1.30.
Hey BIS how about publishing recommended (or at least, tested) combinations of OS, DX, VidCard and Driver, SoundCard and Driver?

[Hnd]

or even better make those effects 3-D, that should solve it :-)

[Captain Kickass]

Noob? Never heard of it! I've heard of Gimp, Gink and the other one's but noob is a new one!

[Jason Alaska]

Sounds like an upgrade from 1.29 to 1.30. You'll need to uninstall (Make a backup of your "USERS" directory first) and then reinstall 1.20 then go directly to 1.30. That fixed that same problem for a budy of mine.
Goodluck!

[TeAcH]

Someone said the DX8.1 is the cause and you have to use DX8 for now.

[Hnd]

Alaska, thanks for tip but I've already tried that. Did not work. It does look like Dx8.1 is the source of problem. I'll try to downgrade to 8.0

[Mister Frag]

I think the issue is more complicated than that, it can't be DX 8.1 alone -- I'm using it without any trouble.