Having graphical issues... the wrong graphics are displayed

[New Guy]

The game runs fine just the graphics are messed up... like when i go to customize my keyboard controls, i cant even read anything because of all of this static-ky stuff all over the screen... and with ceartain weapons shoot caution bars instead of what they are suppose to shoot...
The main screen is messed up, there are huge black lines going through it.
Some of the windows for the settings will open without a background, so it looks like there is text layered on top of text.

Running a

Pentium Celeron {III} 1300Mhz
512mb ram
very sad 4mb intel graphics card

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks...
New Guy

[Canuck]

Douche the sad 4 mb card and get a newer one.
Even 8MB AGP would work better.

Kinda like bying a decent car and putting bicycle tires on it.

[roid]

'd suggest opening the case up and cleaning it all out. especially the memory and motherboard chipset (and graphics chipset, if it's seperate), get all the dust off it.

excess heat may be causing texture corruption.

oh, fergot, the most common cause of texture corruption is video memory overclocking, so uh... clock everything back to see if it helps.

[World War Woodi]

Cleaning everything in the case helped mine immensely, [especially if you smoke]

also if your running a chipset I had to download the latest driver, and in d3 setup from the launcher change the graphic setting to open gl to have it all disply correctly.

I had that same prob in the config menu.

[Jeff250]

General Options:

-lowmem Uses scaled-down textures and lower quality
(8-bit) sounds to conserve memory.

-superlowmem Uses the "-lowmem" settings and further scales
down textures to conserve memory.

From, yours truly, the Descent3 Readme.

[Mobius]

Must be able to get an old Ti4200 off e-bay for about the price of 5 cups of coffee now - surely?

[Krom]

Even a PCI GF4MX would own that current setup.