Chankast 0.25 graphics error

[quen]

Hi, I'm new to the forum (and to chankast :alien2: ). The main purpose i downloaded it was to play rival schools 2: project justice. My problem is that when i start it, most of the screen is black if not for a few pixels that make up an image. When i get passed that and go to what appears to be the character selection screen (maybe...) after choosing an unknown option on a pitch black screen (i can hear the sounds btw), i only see a bunch of coloured rectangular shapes that are probably supposed to be the layout of the game. Did anyone experience this problem, and if they did, how did they fix it?

 

[madh83]

it might have to do with your graphics card, Chankast generally runs with fewer bugs on an ati video card and a processor(pentium 4 or amd athlon of at least 2 ghz) Other than that just update your video drivers and play with the video settings

 

[quen]

I'm currently using a nvidia graphics card w/ pentium 4, and i'm pretty sure it's up to date as it is and i doubt that it's a problem with the game itself because even the chankast beginning screen is kind of messed (screen is all grey with a few boxes near the bottom, they look like they're doing something but i can't tell what )

 

[Gill]

I'm currently using a nvidia graphics card w/ pentium 4, and i'm pretty sure it's up to date as it is and i doubt that it's a problem with the game itself because even the chankast beginning screen is kind of messed (screen is all grey with a few boxes near the bottom, they look like they're doing something but i can't tell what )

Have you tried updating your video card drivers?

 

[quen]

My video card is fairly recent. Am i really the only one who's ever had this problem??

 

[madh83]

You really need to specify exactly what your computer specs are if you want anyone to have a clue about your problem. Have you tried the tutorial for chankast at all too btw?

 

[quen]

Windows XP Professional, Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.66 GHz, 512 mb ram, direct x version 9.0c, using Nvidia Vanta/Vanta LT
I tried playing powerstone 2, i could actually see some images (with a few glitches, for example at stage selection screen, character was replaced with black silouette) but once the fights started it all turned red

 

[Clements]

Er, Vanta is based on the TNT architecture, so is literally years old, pre the original GeForce. I suspect that the card is greatly inferior to the chip inside the actual Dreamcast.

 

[madh83]

yea...what he said which pretty much means you may never get it to display properly, you could try a different graphics driver though like 3.xx or something else very old.

 

[quen]

yikes, i didn't know it was that old
i'm too much of a coward to try to upgrade my graphics card, i've done too many things that lead to my hd getting reformatted. I guess i can't play it then, boo :x

 

[Clements]

No offense, but I really don't understand how anyone (who is even a casual gamer) could couple a fairly decent system with a Pentium 4 + 512MB RAM with TNT graphics. An upgrade to even a Radeon 9600 must be at the very least eight times faster (as well as have full SM2.0, have antialiasing and anisotropic filtering) for $64. That's all you'd need and Chankast (as well as anything else) would run perfectly.

No format would be needed anyway (I upgrade my video card and all I had to do was reinstall drivers), and installing a graphics card is very easy even for a complete novice with no experience.