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Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-03 15:07:39
March 03 2014 15:07 GMT
#201
On March 04 2014 00:00 Cronosc2 wrote:
i updated my drivers yesterday, i cleared cache alot :p
and i repaired alot.

still black terrain

i have a Nvidia GeForce GT635M Laptop Graphics card..

Try to alter next parameter in your variables:

alternatelowtextures

If it is 1, then change it to 0
Cronosc2
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany108 Posts
March 03 2014 15:15 GMT
#202
ah already did that too didnt change black terrain, i pretty much read every page on this thread to find a fix and i tried basically all of them.
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
March 03 2014 15:19 GMT
#203
On March 04 2014 00:15 Cronosc2 wrote:
ah already did that too didnt change black terrain, i pretty much read every page on this thread to find a fix and i tried basically all of them.

Have you did all the changes when game was closed? Sometimes players modifying variables while game is launched. Thats wrong, because when you close the game, it overrites the variables.txt to settings that were in the game.
Cronosc2
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany108 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-03 15:20:27
March 03 2014 15:20 GMT
#204
do i have to delete cache every time i try to change something in the variables?
and yes game was closed every time aswell
JaKaTaKSc2
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States2787 Posts
March 03 2014 15:30 GMT
#205
i'm confused chrono, your screen cap is not black terrain...
Commentatorhttps://www.youtube.com/JaKaTaKtv
Cronosc2
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany108 Posts
March 03 2014 15:35 GMT
#206
well then i misunderstood the word terrain lol..
ehm, is there a way to fix that btw?
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
March 03 2014 15:39 GMT
#207
On March 04 2014 00:35 Cronosc2 wrote:
well then i misunderstood the word terrain lol..
ehm, is there a way to fix that btw?

We already listed ways that solved this problem for many players who had this problem. Seems like there is something more, which I can't understand. Because previously all the black/purple terrain problems were from uncleared cache, unrepaired game, old video-card drivers and sometimes problems with turned on alternate low textures (they use different set of texture files, and sometimes SC2 engine doesn't loads them properly, so solution was to use standard low 'blurred' textures by turning off the alternate ones).

Okay, lets try to investigate this issue. Can you say us does your game looks normally on standard low settings? Just remove lighting=0, launch the game and change everything to standard low. Is everything okay in this case?
Cronosc2
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany108 Posts
March 03 2014 15:44 GMT
#208
yes, all normal.
nothing is gliched, everything is as it should be at low.
JaKaTaKSc2
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States2787 Posts
March 03 2014 15:47 GMT
#209
what i mean is that that screen cap looks normal to me. I am probably missing something, what is wrong?
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Cronosc2
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany108 Posts
March 03 2014 15:49 GMT
#210
the ground is black, instead of this golden shiny color
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
March 03 2014 15:50 GMT
#211
On March 04 2014 00:47 JaKaTaK wrote:
what i mean is that that screen cap looks normal to me. I am probably missing something, what is wrong?

Those protoss-blocks are not textures. But entire terrain is black. Thats the problem.
Cronosc2
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany108 Posts
March 03 2014 15:54 GMT
#212
i even tried to cut out a few things from the hybrid settings in the variables.
bakeTerrainLighting=0
normalmap=1
glossmaps=1
didnt change anything.
so something i guess must interfere with something that its black.
but im 4hrs in and still havent found a way to fix it.
i want those settings that badly, yes :D
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
March 03 2014 15:56 GMT
#213
On March 04 2014 00:54 Cronosc2 wrote:
i even tried to cut out a few things from the hybrid settings in the variables.
bakeTerrainLighting=0
normalmap=1
glossmaps=1
didnt change anything.
so something i guess must interfere with something that its black.
but im 4hrs in and still havent found a way to fix it.
i want those settings that badly, yes :D

Okay, lets try another way.

Change game settings to Medium and close the game.
Add lighting=0 to variables.
Write here what you got.
Cronosc2
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany108 Posts
March 03 2014 16:09 GMT
#214
hmm got the black ground again
[image loading]
Hydra3
Profile Joined September 2010
United States32 Posts
March 03 2014 18:47 GMT
#215
I'm in the same boat as Crono. I tried changing the alternatelowtextures to 0, but it made no difference. I really want to keep all the hybrid settings, but I can't seem to get the terrain to work.
Can't come up with a creative quote O.O
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-03 19:11:07
March 03 2014 19:07 GMT
#216
On March 04 2014 03:47 Hydra3 wrote:
I'm in the same boat as Crono. I tried changing the alternatelowtextures to 0, but it made no difference. I really want to keep all the hybrid settings, but I can't seem to get the terrain to work.

No ideas, really. All the solutions that worked for others... they don't work for you. So for now I can't help much. Looks like it also depends on your videocard. For example Desrow streaming right now with Hybrid settings and it looks okay for him.

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Cronosc2
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany108 Posts
March 03 2014 19:23 GMT
#217
which settings could i copy when i leave out the lighting ones?
that atleast low doesnt look so horrible :D
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-03 19:55:29
March 03 2014 19:54 GMT
#218
On March 04 2014 04:23 Cronosc2 wrote:
which settings could i copy when i leave out the lighting ones?
that atleast low doesnt look so horrible :D

Hybrid settings formula:

+ Medium settings
+ lighting=0
-- turn off some parameters from standard mediums. It easily possible to do through game menues. Just Make all low and turn shaders to medium.

Without lighting=0 you will have standard medium settings with shiny effect and 3D-shadows. Lighting=0 is the core of hybrid settings, it turns off any lighting in the game, and because of that, it also turns off all the shadows, except special blob-shadows that are visible only on low settings.
Cronosc2
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany108 Posts
March 03 2014 20:25 GMT
#219
hmm well since lighting=0 does all that black ground for me, i guess i cant use it then
Shield
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Bulgaria4824 Posts
March 03 2014 20:36 GMT
#220
What's the variable setting to change observer mode to 'Default'? I've currently made my Variables.txt read-only, but I don't want to risk it by making it writable.
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