Broken character and monster graphics in Tiles 0.11.0

[asciigod]

Hi all!

First, kudos to a great game and an apparently great dev community. I'm new, been playing about 3 weeks now on Webtiles. Tried to switch over to the standalone version (0.11.0) so that I could practice a bit more and, let me be honest, save scum a bit until I get a better hang on things.

My main problem is I'm getting wonky character and monster tiles on the standalone version, as below:



I'm unsure if this is a known issue that can easily be fixed, or if it could be that I'm using a rather old laptop with what I assume is a lackluster video card.

I'm on Windows 7 32bit with Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.0)
I don't know much about video hardware, so if more info on that is necessary, please tell me what to supply.

Another thought, I believe I did a clean install of this after removing a 0.10.x build, but maybe the graphics were somehow left over and are incompatible?

Second, since I have your attention , I have had to edit the init.txt with a travel_delay = 0 to compensate slow gameplay due to (I believe) aforementioned crappy video card / drivers.

I'm fine with the delay being non-existent in this mode, but am wondering if there's a way to also speed up throw/casting/etc graphics? As it is now, throwing a dart takes forever to render.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
A$C

[edlothiol]

Yeah, that looks like a driver problem. Any modern video card should be able to handle Crawl, but the default OpenGL drivers in Windows 7 are extremely crappy. Try getting drivers for your chipset from Intel.

There's no way to speed up beams (that I know of), apart from (hopefully) a better driver.

[asciigod]

Thanks for the advice. That was indeed the issue with both the character graphics AND the throwing animations.

Long story short, the game appears to run perfectly now.

From what I had read elsewhere in these forums, I was figuring updating my drivers would probably be a solution. Not being incredibly hardware savvy I was a bit hesitant / scared to do so.

Lesson to others in the future who read this thread. Update the drivers. Apparently, it's a cure all for most of the visual / performance problems in Win7.

thanks again