Dirt 2, I'm having a strange problem with graphics....

[nero0410]

Just downloaded this (steam sale), this evening and loaded it up.

It loaded up in 800x600, so I set the options to what I had it in the demo pretty much maxxed out @ 1920x1080, and all I got was a black screen, apart from the guy's head that was talking to me I could see that.

So I restarted the game, only to be presented with a windowed box of it running in the middle of my screen.

I then deleted the save and config files and just tried setting it to 1920x1080 on it's own and it did the same thing.

My spec is as follow's:
AMD Phenom II X6 @ 2.8ghz
4gb ddr3 1333mhz ram
gigabyte gtx 460 1gb
win7 x64 home premium

I don't understand why the demo played completely fine with no error, but I'm having so much trouble trying to get it to accept and work on the same settings.
I even posted up some screens of the demo in our thread.

I simply can't jusy play the game at 800x600 with no AA or anything else as I'll send Razor to an early grave when posting screenshots.

Any advice?

thanks

tris

 

[JustinJ004]

Have you tried pressing ALT + Enter when it's in windowed mode?

 

[nero0410]

Have you tried pressing ALT + Enter when it's in windowed mode?

Nope, but I think I now found the problem.

I now have all the settings maxxed out and instead of the multisampleing set to 16xcsaa or 8xcsaa
I have it set to
8xMsaa

So it appears the problem on the full game is when I set it on 16xCsaa (or 8xCsaa) which I didn't have on the demo.

So very strange that it was fine on the demo but not on the full game.

Though I can't see much difference between Csaa and Msaa, apart from the fact that I can't seem to use 16x as there isnt a Msaax16 option, only a Csaa option.

tris

 

[PocketBunny]

I am looking forward to seeing your screenshots of the game. I bought this last night, but didnt complete the download before i had to hit the hay. So some eye candy from it would be nice to get me through the day