Character sprites not showing up!Follow

Just thought I'd check in, anyone figure out a solution? Playing on the PS2 currently, but since SoA won't be coming to NA PS2 it kinda sucks...

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but if you've done everything you can to run down this problem, your vid chip/integrated card may not be able to handle it, or 3D much at all. This is why I recommended in my guide that you run the benchmark before you install. I should go back and add both on low and high. From what I've seen the bench usually shows if you can run it before you install, which saves some hassle. That might of even shown your erm, no chara problem before you installed. (It does show a massive amount of taru at one point)

All I can say is consider getting a desktop PC; used will work as long as it has a decent video card. Or if your heart is set on a laptop, get one that you can play newer games on so you KNOW it can handle 3D graphics, even if you have to install the older DirectX first. I mean I'm still running it on a 9 year old desktop pc that I'm thinking of repping soon as I can scrape up the $$ because I need to go to Windows 7 very soon or I won't get windows updates anymore. (Since it's so old, I'd rather go whole hog and basically get a new pc, tho I'm going to put a new pc under it really; total rebuild. All my pcs have been custom builds) And its vid card (another reason I'm a tad worried and want to rebuild; I can't get a rep anymore without jumping though some major hoops) is a AGP card.

Edited, Nov 15th 2012 11:25am by maryadavies

Thank you catwho for that! I'll look for those barebones kits when I can work up the money (it's that tight). One of my worries was getting Windows 7 legally; as I said in the guide, I like to know where my software has been, and that goes triple for my operating system. I plain flat out refuse to pirate anything. And with operating systems, I prefer to have the physical disks because sh*t happens that can cause you to reload the operating system sometimes.

That also reduces my estimate for getting it done. Buy barebones, I assume that includes windows, and then a vid card and hdd; I proly could get it done (and hand my old one off sans hdd for Neko to turn into a linux fileserver) cheaper than I thought. I thought I'd have to spend about $1k for a decent system. ^^ (I repped my hdd not too long ago so it's still good, I'd reformat it for a data drive since I could get a much bigger one for the main disk)

Anyway, for now this pc runs FFXI without a struggle but yeah. With Windows XP basically due to go out of support, I'd rather go to windows 7 soon as I can work up the money to upgrade the system. ^^

Edited, Nov 15th 2012 12:25pm by maryadavies

haha the funny part is this Laptop runs Aion very well, the character models show up on the benchmark which is really weird lol, Thanks for all the help in this thread... I'll just wait until I get my tax return, I planned on building a BEAST then anyways :)

Kelvar I love you, Installed the Driver Version you specified and it works like a charm now, I guess I just didn't roll my drivers back far enough. Thanks alot man, and thanks to everybody for your patience.

WAAAAAAY ahead of you on that, thanks for the warning though :)

Hello, my old gaming laptop just died so I bought an alienware m14x with windows 8. After loading it up and fresh install, I have the same problem. No characters are loading on the screen. The laptop has the following specs:

PROCESSOR 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3630QM (6MB Cache, up to 3.4GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0)
OPERATING SYSTEM Windows 8, 64-bit, English
MEMORY 8GB (2 X 4GB) Dual Channel DDR3 at 1600MHz
HARD DRIVE 500GB 7,200 RPM SATA 3Gb/s
VIDEO CARD 2 GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 650M with Optimus™
LCD PANEL 14.0" High Def (720p/1366x768) with WLED backlight
WIRELESS CARDS Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 2230 With Bluetooth 4.0
INTERNAL OPTICAL DRIVE Slot-Loading Dual Layer DVD Burner (DVD+-RW, CD-RW)

I do not know much about laptops, but I found out after I purchased it that it has an additional graphics card integrated Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000. From what I have read, the computer can determine when it is appropriate to switch between the two.

I would like to try the driver rollback fix, but do not know where to begin. Can anyone help?

Shot in the dark, but Nvidia's control panel has a Manage 3D settings where you can specify a particular program. May have to tweak it for both POL and whatever exe FFXI uses.

Awesome, thank you very much. This was a very quick solution for those suffering the problem that have an NVidia card and the Intel HD 4000 card. I went to the NVidia graphics settings menu, selected the 3D Manager and found the FFXI (POL) program and set it to use NVidia card instead of the automatically selected Intel HD 4000 card. This leads me to believe that whether due to a driver error or not, the Intel HD 4000 card was the problem. Since my fix was simple, I did not have to roll back any drivers. Thanks again!

I had the same problem as you with a new laptop I got for Christmas. What I ended up doing was getting a hold of a copy of Windows 7 and formatting / install Win 7 instead of 8.

After that I had two things go my way. 1) I was able to get an older version of the graphics driver that worked with my laptop 2) I wasn't using Windows 8 anymore.

Curious if anyone can help me out as well, since I am having this problem as well. I've gone through and checked everything i could, according to intel i have "Intel® Processor Graphics 2000", not sure if that is the same that everyone else has been talking about.

I have Windows 7 Ultimate :/ and fix that anyone has figured out?

check out this video for people who have the same problem with a Windows 7 or 8 system, (under windows 8, cannot install older drivers v 8.xxxx)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DBiwTcfbHI