Graphics problem

[CurzonDax]

Hello all,I am a complete noob but played Frontier on my Amiga and loved it.I have downloaded Pioneer and it works perfectly on my desktop PC (Windows 7 32bit).But on my laptop (Windows 7 64bit) the graphics are corrupted. The wireframe seems ok but the textures are not. The rotating spaceship on the welcome screen seems to have very small textures inside much bigger triangles and the cities in the starting areas too.Am I doing something wrong?Thank you for your time and for making a great piece of software.PaoloItaly

[CurzonDax]

Update: unckecking the 'use shaders' option solves the problem. Any explanation?ThanksPaolo

[walterar]

Ciao Paolo. It seems that the video card of the laptop does not support shadows. What video card is?

[DerrickMoore]

yeah, I got a lap top, and am so used to bad textures when I p;lay on my HP laptop that I just ignore it. When I load up Pioneer, the ship in the load screen is usually got the wrong textures, and it's mapped with what looks like Acii text.the problem is this: Nvidia and other hardware card makers for laptops dont update the drivers. HP is supposed to update the drivers, and I've seen this happen once in the 4 years that I've been using HP laptops (becasue HP laptops are cool). I'm on my 2nd one, and the drivers are always out of date.you can't go to the Nvidia webpage to update your HP laptop, youhave to go to the HP page, and well.. Good Luck. Like i said, i know for a fact that HP automatically updated my drivers, but that was my last HP laptop and that was 2 years ago.graphic issues, you just gotta accept them on a laptop. (luckily there's a 32 bit tower in the house too).So, moral is, go to the laptop maker's webpage to find the updated drivers for your hardware board, not the board's maker. So, HP website, not Nvidia if you have a laptop.

[s2odan]

You should be able to simply update using Nvidia's/ATI's drivers. Thats what I do with my HP. The very first thing I did with my laptop was format it <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//wink3.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />[url]http://www.nvidia.co...hql-driver.html[/url] Thats for all 400M series cards[url]http://www.nvidia.co...hql-driver.html[/url] Thats for 560MJust choose which driver you need from this list : [url]http://www.nvidia.co...aspx?lang=en-us[/url] for AMD/ATI : [url]http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx[/url]

[s2odan]

Just to make sure I hadn't made a mistake I just updated my laptop with the latest ATI mobility catalyst center and experienced no problems. Plus I have an unusual card setup, twin cards; one is a CPU/GPU (HD 6520G I think) and the other is an HD 6400M.