[Vista] Stealth enemies causing screen flicker... (JA)

[Vor'en]

Hi. I recently installed Jedi Academy in Vista, and so far, it's been working relatively well. However, I've noticed that any time I am looking at, or my view passes over the location of, an enemy who is stealthed, stealthing, or appearing, the screen flickers/skips.

It can cause my video card to crash if I am looking at or passing by a lot of stealthed enemies (such as the mission lead by Rogue Squadron and the cutscene with the X-wing flying over the base).

Everything else works fine (all Force powers I've tried, every weapon, all details/lighting, etc) so I am not sure what the source of the problem could be.

[Kurgan]

Are you using CG_RenderToTextureFX 1 or 0?

Assuming your video card drivers are updated to the latest stable versions, I would try that. Some cards can't handle the effects from the Cloak or Force Push/Pull effects well.


Out of curiosity, how did you get the game to work with Vista? Did you use the computability mode, by chance?

[Vor'en]

That sort of helped, but for some reason there was still some flickering. It never happens when I use Force push or pull, though. Only when I looked at, or my view passed over, stealthed or stealthing enemies. What did seem to cure it, though, was disabling SLI mode. After I did this, I reloaded an earlier save (mission where you disable the bombs, Bakura or t1_fatal) and was able to look at and pass my view over the stealth enemies without any flicker/tearing at all.

As for getting it to work on Vista, I didn't do anything to it...No compatibility mode or anything. I did disable UAC, though, because I got tired of giving permission for...everything. Everything else is default settings with some mods thrown in, patched up game, and all Vista updates.