Messed Up Visuals - Impossible to play

[stoned_smurf]

My fof worked fine up until a few days ago when the visuals went all haywire on me. I haven't installed any new mods or changed my options in any way. I have tried re downloading and renstalling the game with out any luck. Here's a screen shot of the game. This used to be the main menu.

[stoned_smurf]

[BlackFate]

Comp specs?
Fof version?
Graphics drivers up to date?
Desktop color quality set to 32bit?
Any firewalls, anti virus software on the comp?

And close all other programs while you have fof open, why do you have silkroad open too?

Mike.

[marecki22]

instal new Graphics drivers

[stoned_smurf]

my dad is the one who plays silk roads and it never bothered the game before.

I have 2 gig of DDR 2 ram, AMD athlon dual core processor, 2 nvidia GeForce 8200 video cards. (I'm not exactly sure of the card types, but I know it's something along those lines)

My graphic drivers are up to date, and my color is set to 32 bit.

It worked fine with no problems for a month or so, then this just happened with no apparent cause.

I have FretsOnFire 1.2.451

[BlackFate]

Try deleting your fretsonfire.ini, and the fretsonfire text document (Start > Run > %appdata%/fretsonfire/)

Then run fof again.

Mike.

[nobby76]

There will always be a cause, programs NEVER just stop working for no reason, even if you dont know what that reason is.

But yeah as blackfate said delete your .ini file, Because if you try installing another version ( or even the same version as before) and you dont delete the .ini file, you will still get errors.

[stoned_smurf]

I tried completely deleting, reinstalling, then deleting the ini file. I still get the same thing, except its back to the original FOF layout

[stoned_smurf]

I have tried absolutely everything I can think of, and everything people have said. I have downloaded almost every version of FOF, deleted the ini, changed resolutions, turned SLI off. I am at a total loss

[stoned_smurf]

I deleted every scrap of Fof off of my computer and reinstalled it. I still have the weird boxes for words

[BlackFate]

Any error messages?
Anything in your log file?

What do you have in the files in (Start > Run > %appdata%/fretsonfire/)
Both files, post them here if there's something in them.

Mike.

[stoned_smurf]

There is no error log, and the only thing in %appdata%/fretsonfire/ says:

(W) Config key game.encoding not defined while reading.
(D) Initializing audio.
(D) Audio configuration: (44100, -16, 1)
(D) Initializing video.
(D) Enabling high priority timer.
(D) 2 joysticks found.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loading Data.star1 synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\star1.svg'.
(N) Loaded Data.star1 in 0.016 seconds
(W) Frame buffer object support disabled in configuration.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loading Data.star2 synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\star2.svg'.
(N) Loaded Data.star2 in 0.015 seconds
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loading Data.left synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\left.svg'.
(N) Loaded Data.left in 0.016 seconds
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loading Data.right synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\right.svg'.
(N) Loaded Data.right in 0.015 seconds
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loading Data.ball1 synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\ball1.svg'.
(N) Loaded Data.ball1 in 0.016 seconds
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loading Data.ball2 synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\ball2.svg'.
(N) Loaded Data.ball2 in 0.000 seconds
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loading Data.loadingImage synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\loading.svg'.
(N) Loaded Data.loadingImage in 0.016 seconds
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loading Data.font asynchronously
(N) Loading Data.bigFont asynchronously
(N) Loading Data.screwUpSounds asynchronously
(N) Loading Data.screwUpSoundsBass asynchronously
(N) Loading Data.symcSounds asynchronously
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loading Data.acceptSound asynchronously
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loading Data.cancelSound asynchronously
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loading Data.selectSound1 asynchronously
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loading Data.selectSound2 asynchronously
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loading Data.selectSound3 asynchronously
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loading Data.startSound asynchronously
(D) Ready.
(W) Config key game.encoding not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loading MainMenu.background synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\keyboard.svg'.
(N) Loaded MainMenu.background in 0.047 seconds
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loading MainMenu.guy synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\pose.svg'.
(N) Loaded MainMenu.guy in 0.016 seconds
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loading MainMenu.logo synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\logo.svg'.
(N) Loaded MainMenu.logo in 0.015 seconds
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loaded Data.font in 0.047 seconds
(N) Loaded Data.bigFont in 0.047 seconds
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loaded Data.screwUpSounds in 0.266 seconds
(N) Loaded Data.screwUpSoundsBass in 0.110 seconds
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(W) Config key game.base_library not defined while reading.
(N) Loaded Data.symcSounds in 0.093 seconds
(N) Loaded Data.acceptSound in 0.016 seconds
(N) Loaded Data.cancelSound in 0.016 seconds
(N) Loaded Data.selectSound1 in 0.016 seconds
(N) Loaded Data.selectSound2 in 0.016 seconds
(N) Loaded Data.selectSound3 in 0.016 seconds
(N) Loaded Data.startSound in 0.016 seconds
(D) View: Push: MainMenu
(D) View: Push: Menu
(D) View: Pop: Menu
(D) View: Pop: MainMenu
(D) View: Pop: Menu

[stoned_smurf]

I have found a fix. I took my video card to the drivers I had before and now it works fine. You might want to make a sticky for this since it seems to have happened to quite a few people from what I've seen in previous topics. You can either take the newest drivers off of your pc, or upgrade to FoF version 1.2.512 if it ever gets fixed.