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Characters in Secret Files games are partially visible or invisible #1101895
02/26/17 03:09 AM
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Hi Fellow Boomers,
I have the original boxed version of Secret Files-Tunguska and the Steam version of Secret Files-Puritas Cordis. In playing both of these games, some of the characters are either partially visible or completely invisible. Steam "Support" was no help at all, and Deep Silver (the publisher) is no longer in business. I have a Win 10 64 bit PC, with the Radeon HD 8330 video card. Any help for this problem would be much appreciated.
Sandy

Re: Characters in Secret Files games are partially visible or invisible [Re: sanford] #1101915
02/26/17 10:29 AM
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Sandy, I just finished replaying both of these games on my windows 7 computer and had no problem.

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Re: Characters in Secret Files games are partially visible or invisible [Re: sanford] #1101919
02/26/17 10:53 AM
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It may be a conflict with your video card's drivers.
I don't know if you can change drivers with Windows 10 though.

There may be a setting for your video card that helps.
You might try this solution:
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Go to AMD Catalyst Control Centre (CCC)
Then go to "Gaming", there should be two main options which are "Gaming Performance" and "Image Quality".
Under "Image Quality" go to "Anti-Aiasing" then change the mode to "Use application settings". Go back to "Image Quality" and click "Anisotropic Filtering" and tick the box next to "Use application settings".


I found the above solution at Steam. It's a fix for invisible characters in a different game but may work.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/241540/discussions/0/864980734722143873/

Edit --

I found another thread at Steam where people were having trouble with disappearing character parts in Secret Files 1 and 2.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/40330/discussions/0/613937943015701367/

One person said
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I have a AMD HD 7800 and I tried an old driver from 2012 and the problem was solved. When I want to update the driver, the problem returns. By now I still haven't found out, where the difference between the older and newer driver is.

So it's a problem with drivers that are "too new."

The original poster described it as "like the game is having issues with the z-order." I had a "disappearing character part" in Grim Fandango where the fix was "turning 32-bit z-buffer off." So maybe something similar could be done in current driver settings related to z-buffer? I haven't found any posts that say this, though I did find posts saying the older Catalyst graphics control center for ATI cards has better controls than the new Crimson control center.

Re: Characters in Secret Files games are partially visible or invisible [Re: Jenny100] #1102046
02/27/17 03:04 PM
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Hi Jenny,
I took your advice and changed my AMD settings to a bare minimum, and so far,the problem has not re-occured. The graphics are not as "pretty", but I can live with that. Thank you so much for your help. HAPPY GAMING!
Sandy

Re: Characters in Secret Files games are partially visible or invisible [Re: sanford] #1102313
03/01/17 05:47 PM
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The card might work without turning EVERYTHING down.
The question is whether you could figure out what was misbehaving.

Glad you're able to at least play though, even if it ain't pretty.

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