does this game not like ATI cards?

cymorile · December 2005

I finally got into the game, but have crashed every time. I'll be strolling about, and the game will freeze, the graphics will turn to crap, and I have to reboot my machine to get out of this.

I have a Radeon X850 with the latest drivers.

Anyone else have issues like this?

kielker · December 2005

I have an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB and I have issues with the game crashing, but I don't have to reboot my machine.

Isil'Zha · December 2005

x800 here and it crashes all the time. I can maybee stay on for 30 min if I am very lucky

Kilim · December 2005

I ahve p[layed this game on 2 pc.
1 nVIDIA fx5600xt 256MB AND A ati x850XT 256MB.

I keep getting the DnLg.exe when they actually started the server again on both PCs.

Starting to see the clouds hover on this game now....

Krell38 · December 2005

My game crashes to desktop after i play for 15-30 minutes with the dnlg.exe error. I have an x800

eoweth · December 2005

x850Pro here. I've been crashing a lot, during the few short hours the servers have remained online. The first time it did seem to be graphics related (ie, corrupted graphics followed by a crash or in one case a full system restart out of the blue) but nothing that seems to be triggering it. I've crashed with people around, while in combat, nearing combat, alone in the middle of nowhere, with high graphics, low graphics, on pet, off pet...

I think it's more of a case of bad programming and a very rough alpha type code base than anything specific to ATI cards. IRC is full of people with all kinds of cards crashing constantly.

wabbacha · December 2005

ya same here another radeon, what i did was turn my gpu all the way to high performance in the catalist control center, than i played the game on engine 6 and was able to fly around smooth as silk for more than an hour. i also used /enginesetquality high, but that leads to a super cartoony graphic's so i turned it back to low

ronan32 · December 2005

i keep getting a custom defined error, when i try to login. does anyone know what this is, as i cant login to the game

jeti · December 2005

i've got radeon 9550 and i can play a while but after moment game start to not responding

Solanar · December 2005

... i made a post of this in another thread but

1. delete dnl.ini and dnl.cfg folder, then run the full integrity check

2. ingame right click on your compass and deselect roads
do this on your map (m) aswell

it fixed for me

Staxic · December 2005

9800 256M card here, and it does it to me as well.
On another thread, someone posted that the admin in IRC said they were aware of the issue, and it is a memory leak they are trying to plug.

(Wouldn't his have come up in their beta testing??)

TechnoD · December 2005

I've got an ATI 9600XT, but no crashing, except for when I leave the game (the game closes, as normal, then I get a generic windows crashing message).

I get like 4 fps, though...

Cleffy · December 2005

I have a Radeon 9250, and I play the game with fullblast graphics just fine. The issue must be with something developed for later model ATI cards.

RedRab · December 2005

Radeon 9800 Pro 128 here and no problems, apart from the crash when exiting the game as somebody has already mentioned. I get 15 to 25 fps in game graphics set high. I'm using Cat drivers 5.8, not the latest due to problems I get with the DAoC Darkness Rising client and the later cat drivers.

Lasastard · December 2005

Radeon 9800 Pro and the game is crashing frequently. The Graphics are freezing and 5 secs later I ctd and get the dnlg.exe error. Neither deleting the dnl.ini file nor turning of roads etc on the map helped.

Phoenixs · December 2005

For some stupid reason they made the game in OpenGl (Prehistoric now). Ati cards don't like OpenGl that much. Nvidia performs much better in OpenGl. Not sure if this causes all the errors though.

jeti · December 2005

game works ... but not very smoothly ;/ do someone know what can i do ?? becouse it works the same when i use 392 ram and when i use 512 it make it isn't ram fault

Lasastard · December 2005

Originally posted by jeti
game works ... but not very smoothly ;/ do someone know what can i do ?? becouse it works the same when i use 392 ram and when i use 512 it make it isn't ram fault

First of all I think SoG needs like 1 gig of ram to work smoothly. And secondly you could change the Gfx Drivers. It seems that DnL can handle older versions of the catalyst driver (ATI) - 4.9 for example - better than the latest version (which is 5.12 or something)

jeti · December 2005

but u see when i play DnL it looks like i see pictures what are changing and if it requires 512 (it is written in manual then it should works normal)

Phoenixs · December 2005

The biggest fps problem currently is the or those giant memory leaks. You just have to wait for them to fix it. It's pretty clear that you will have bad fps when the memory usage rises all the time and never stops. Not even a Nasa computer can calculate stuff if there are memory leaks.

inphi · December 2005

I am running a radeon x600 with 256 mb with everything set to lowest and its horrible slow + i crash nonstop (the .ini .cfg file deletion helps when logging back in but still crashes every 10-45 min).

I can play HL2, FarCry etc etc with EVERYTHING set on max without a single hint of lag so something is terrible terrible wrong with SOG/DNL code....

inphi · December 2005

Oh and lately (last 2 days) whenever game is about to crash or it has crashed i get SERIUS graphic errors, everything turns to giant pixel mish mash for a split second on and off...

Phoenixs · December 2005

That is the trouble we all have. You just have to wait for them to sort it out, or give the game up. I have found out though that the game doesn't crash if you leave all the other people behind. Go exploring somewhere alone and it won't crash. The problem is you can't do much besides exploring, all mobs are lvl 70+ so you won't be leveling. For "real" progress you have to be where all the other people are. And that's where it crashes ::::12::

Staxic · December 2005

Phoenix is right. I went looking for place to hunt after I hit lvl ten. Didn't find a lot of mobs from 10 - 20, but I found a lot 30+ when I got out to the small islands and the mainland.

Only crashed with dnlg.exe error once when I was leaving the starting areas, and that was on a balloon. When I logged back in, I was at the balloon drop off point. I've hanglided, swam, ran, and snowboarded all over the place with crashes every hour or more, instead of every 20 minutes when in starting areas. Even grouped up to try to hunt the 30 critters.

So it's something to do with heavy congestion....they'll probably figure it out in Jan.

Rykael · December 2005

I just switched my cards last night. I was using a craptacular card, GEForce FX 5700 I think, and I switched it to ATI Radeon 9550 (or something). My old card did fine for any other games I played, but I can't handle the lag in this game (getting like 2fps...), thought maybe it was partly the card, so I stole my boyfriend's card and made him take mine

Anyways, I noticed a moderate improvement with the ATI card. I can now move, at least. I only tried it last night, and it was right before the message that the server was coming down, so I don't know if it would cause a crash, I had to log out anyway.

Valkanisar · December 2005

i think the big problem is sog will only run in opengl. ati has always had problems with games in opengl. would be nice to use dx but i guess that would be more up to date with the times than 3 years ago

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