XWA's gone ugly

MCHuskie · Post by **MCHuskie** » Mon May 01, 2006 10:57 am

Here's an interesting problem.

I hadn't booted into Windows (XP) for a while. XWA was working just fine the last time I used it. However, I tried it yesterday and - yuck!

For a start, the HUD was all jagged and generally nasty-looking. The craft models look fine, but effects (explosions, missile trails etc) look awfully pixellated, almost as if they're in 640x480 while the rest of the game is 1024x768.

I even tried a complete reinstall of XWA (including 2.02 and S-foils patch), and playing around with the graphics settings, to no avail. Googling suggests that it might be caused by upgrading the graphics drivers (hence solved by downgrading), but I was wondering if anyone else had come across this before.

The irony is - the game looks just fine under Linux!

MCHuskie · Post by **MCHuskie** » Mon May 01, 2006 7:52 pm

Indeed it was solved by reverting to an earlier graphics driver. I just hope doing that won't break other things without me noticing...

Wedge · Post by **Wedge** » Tue May 02, 2006 5:24 am

If you're looking to add a little more realism to your XWA experience, you should keep an eye on these guys: http://www.xwaupgrade.com/

As you can see the've done a pretty good job with the Interdictor Cruiser.