(Okay, well, yes, I know that there's the Vista Errors with MxO thing running, however, those are for bug reports. After working tirelessly with the system and experimenting some things, I've been able to find out how to override a lot of these issues. It's been a hassle, however, I have the fixes. First, though, I'd like to give credit to Rarebit for his most recent statement of what issues SOE has officially recognized as Vista-Specific:)
NOTE: IF YOU FIND ANYMORE ISSUES WITH WINDOWS VISTA, SEND ME A PM AND I WILL FIND A FIX AROUND IT. I'LL ALSO KEEP AN EYE ON THE ORIGINAL WINDOWS VISTA POST TO SEE IF I CAN FIND OTHER FIXES
Rarebit wrote:
To summarize, these are the four issues we currently consider Vista-specific:
1) Fixed lighting on character child models
Character child models (hands and faces) are lit differently than the rest of the body. When standing still, they are lit brightly from North and South, and in shadow on the sides facing East and West. This lighting does not update if the character animates while standing in place; for instance, your face is in shadow when facing East (even if the sun is shining directly on it), and if you do the /lookaround emote to make your head turn left and right, the dark shadow stays fixed on the front of your face even when your head turns to look North and South as the emote animation plays.
Richworld pedestrians, whose faces are built into the main body, rather than attached as children, do not have the face lighting problem.
2) Texture corruption with character shadows enabled
When Character Shadows are enabled in the advanced graphics window, texture corruption may occur on parts of characters, or on the entire world when standing in certain spots and facing certain directions. By "corruption," I mean that the textures are rendered either as a single flat color, or as a dithered pattern.
3) Black screenshots with anti-aliasing enabled
Screenshots, either jpg or bmp, come out entirely black with Anti-aliasing enabled in the advanced graphics options panel. This only occurs when running full-screen (AA doesn't work when running in a window) at a resolution other than the desktop resolution; if you run at the desktop resolution, full-screen, with AA, screenshots work normally.
4) Female with nose ring has metallic shiny chest
A female with the facial style that includes a nose-ring model gets a shiny specular highlight on her upper torso. It appears that at least with the female, the nose ring's specular image map, which should be rendering only on the ring part of the face child model, is rendering on the character's chest.
Now, as for my work:
Microsoft Vista and The Matrix Online
Compilation of bugs by Dezreki
Certain Terms that may be necessary for you to understand the Guide:
Administration Mode- To run The Matrix Online - or any program - in administration mode, you need to right click on the icon and click "Run As Administrator" and "Allow" the program.
Anti-Aliasing: To allow/disallow Anti-Aliasing, you need to hit " \ " to bring up the Options Panel and go to "Advanced," there, you can turn off Anti-Aliasing.
Windowed Mode- To enable/disable Windowed mode, you need to hit " \ " to bring up the Options Panel and check or uncheck the Windowed option.
Screenshot Bug
Description: The most common error that was first run into with Vista was the screenshot bug. This bug would register a screenshot in the specified directory, however, would not display the image, only a black, blank screenshot.
Fix: The only known fix for this bug as of now is to disable the Anti-Aliasing feature and to run The Matrix Online in full-screen mode.
Texture Issues and Shadow/Lighting Issues
Description: If the screenshot bug wasn't the first problem you had, it was with these texture issues. Microsoft Vista has certain incompatibilities with several different graphics cards - the most noted card being ones of Nvidia. This would turn the figures of the Matrix into very pixel-ish formats.
Primary Fix (Thanks to Symmetic for pointing it out): Turn off Character Shadows.
Secondary, less effective semi-Fix: Okay, this is probably the most complicated fix to work with, however, it can be stopped to an extent. The first thing you should do is get a useropts config that allows for a LOT of free-roam, as the texture detail issue has a lot to do with your camera. Also, crankin' out highest detail and maxin' other stuff out helps a considerable amount. At the end of this statement, I will post a link to download my personal useropts settings which cause me to run in very, very few texture details. It also seems to get rid of 90% of shadow/lighting errors. The camera positioning with Vista texture issues is something that you'll just learn to setup in time. Keeping certain distances away and using certain angles is the primary way to run it.
( http://www.hwez.clanservers.com/useropts.cfg )
-Useropts courtesy of the Bazmans
Launcher Errors
Description: Most Launcher errors deal with some type of .dll error or some other sort that the game failed to locate the matrix.exe file.
Fix: Run in administrative mode or re-install the game using administrative settings.
Clothing Errors
Description: Certain clothing combinations causes the entire screen to have a texture failure and display colors instead of pictures.
Fix: Well, there's not an official "fix" to this error yet, however, the first thing you really have to do is identify what clothing or clothing combinations causes this bug. Once you have that done, you should be able to realize what you shouldn't have paired up. Is that a hassle to change your clothing uniform? Yes, without a double; but, hey, Vista *is* a hassle. I'm working on a workaround with this, however, none have been currently determined as of yet.
Frequent Crashes in Vista
Description: Title kind of gives it away.
Fix: Run in administrative mode. If that does not work, you may need to re-install in Administration Mode.
Missing Name Tags
Description: If nametags are missing and Control + T isn't fixing it, then you have run into this bug.
Fix: Run in administrative mode.
NOTE: IF YOU FIND ANYMORE ISSUES WITH WINDOWS VISTA, SEND ME A PM AND I WILL FIND A FIX AROUND IT. I'LL ALSO KEEP AN EYE ON THE ORIGINAL WINDOWS VISTA POST TO SEE IF I CAN FIND OTHER FIXES
Rarebit wrote:
To summarize, these are the four issues we currently consider Vista-specific:
1) Fixed lighting on character child models
Character child models (hands and faces) are lit differently than the rest of the body. When standing still, they are lit brightly from North and South, and in shadow on the sides facing East and West. This lighting does not update if the character animates while standing in place; for instance, your face is in shadow when facing East (even if the sun is shining directly on it), and if you do the /lookaround emote to make your head turn left and right, the dark shadow stays fixed on the front of your face even when your head turns to look North and South as the emote animation plays.
Richworld pedestrians, whose faces are built into the main body, rather than attached as children, do not have the face lighting problem.
2) Texture corruption with character shadows enabled
When Character Shadows are enabled in the advanced graphics window, texture corruption may occur on parts of characters, or on the entire world when standing in certain spots and facing certain directions. By "corruption," I mean that the textures are rendered either as a single flat color, or as a dithered pattern.
3) Black screenshots with anti-aliasing enabled
Screenshots, either jpg or bmp, come out entirely black with Anti-aliasing enabled in the advanced graphics options panel. This only occurs when running full-screen (AA doesn't work when running in a window) at a resolution other than the desktop resolution; if you run at the desktop resolution, full-screen, with AA, screenshots work normally.
4) Female with nose ring has metallic shiny chest
A female with the facial style that includes a nose-ring model gets a shiny specular highlight on her upper torso. It appears that at least with the female, the nose ring's specular image map, which should be rendering only on the ring part of the face child model, is rendering on the character's chest.
Now, as for my work:
Microsoft Vista and The Matrix Online
Compilation of bugs by Dezreki
Certain Terms that may be necessary for you to understand the Guide:
Administration Mode- To run The Matrix Online - or any program - in administration mode, you need to right click on the icon and click "Run As Administrator" and "Allow" the program.
Anti-Aliasing: To allow/disallow Anti-Aliasing, you need to hit " \ " to bring up the Options Panel and go to "Advanced," there, you can turn off Anti-Aliasing.
Windowed Mode- To enable/disable Windowed mode, you need to hit " \ " to bring up the Options Panel and check or uncheck the Windowed option.
Screenshot Bug
Description: The most common error that was first run into with Vista was the screenshot bug. This bug would register a screenshot in the specified directory, however, would not display the image, only a black, blank screenshot.
Fix: The only known fix for this bug as of now is to disable the Anti-Aliasing feature and to run The Matrix Online in full-screen mode.
Texture Issues and Shadow/Lighting Issues
Description: If the screenshot bug wasn't the first problem you had, it was with these texture issues. Microsoft Vista has certain incompatibilities with several different graphics cards - the most noted card being ones of Nvidia. This would turn the figures of the Matrix into very pixel-ish formats.
Primary Fix (Thanks to Symmetic for pointing it out): Turn off Character Shadows.
Secondary, less effective semi-Fix: Okay, this is probably the most complicated fix to work with, however, it can be stopped to an extent. The first thing you should do is get a useropts config that allows for a LOT of free-roam, as the texture detail issue has a lot to do with your camera. Also, crankin' out highest detail and maxin' other stuff out helps a considerable amount. At the end of this statement, I will post a link to download my personal useropts settings which cause me to run in very, very few texture details. It also seems to get rid of 90% of shadow/lighting errors. The camera positioning with Vista texture issues is something that you'll just learn to setup in time. Keeping certain distances away and using certain angles is the primary way to run it.
( http://www.hwez.clanservers.com/useropts.cfg )
-Useropts courtesy of the Bazmans
Launcher Errors
Description: Most Launcher errors deal with some type of .dll error or some other sort that the game failed to locate the matrix.exe file.
Fix: Run in administrative mode or re-install the game using administrative settings.
Clothing Errors
Description: Certain clothing combinations causes the entire screen to have a texture failure and display colors instead of pictures.
Fix: Well, there's not an official "fix" to this error yet, however, the first thing you really have to do is identify what clothing or clothing combinations causes this bug. Once you have that done, you should be able to realize what you shouldn't have paired up. Is that a hassle to change your clothing uniform? Yes, without a double; but, hey, Vista *is* a hassle. I'm working on a workaround with this, however, none have been currently determined as of yet.
Frequent Crashes in Vista
Description: Title kind of gives it away.
Fix: Run in administrative mode. If that does not work, you may need to re-install in Administration Mode.
Missing Name Tags
Description: If nametags are missing and Control + T isn't fixing it, then you have run into this bug.
Fix: Run in administrative mode.
((All messages in green are Shiboo's.))
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