Eengstro on March 8th, 2008

As a followup on my previous post, I managed to capture more Team Fortress rendering glitches last night.
The polygons in this sniper are all facing in odd directions. Notice the two long, thin polygons going down and to the left.
This sniper’s head and rifle butt seem fine, but the rest of him is [...]

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Eengstro on March 4th, 2008

I’ve been seeing more and more rendering glitches in Team Fortress 2 on my ATI X800 XT recently. The glitches always happen to characters or buildings only; the environment always renders correctly. Polygons will either stretch to infinity (sometimes as few as one, or every polygon in a character model), or they’ll “fan”, facing [...]

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Eengstro on March 27th, 2006

I recently installed McAfee VirusScan 2006 and Personal Firewall Plus 2006. Around this time, I discovered that my ATI video card’s control panel, Catalyst Control Center, stopped functioning: it wouldn’t even open.
It turns out that Catalyst Control Center needs access to the Internet, and Personal Firewall Plus 2006 was blocking it, apparently by default. Click [...]

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