Darkened cars that have been modded

[Enko]

I'll start with a picture:

http://puu.sh/11w03

http://puu.sh/11wGs

For awhile up to a certain point I was keeping up with regular updates, then recently the nightly builds started giving me this error, so I stopped. With 1.3.1 out I upgraded to it and now it's back, I can't really stick on 1.3 with this update now so I need to work out if this can get addressed.

Basically random cars just appear to be darkened, re streaming them by re logging or just moving far away and back seems to fix some and then break others, or just not do much at all, but usually there's always a car just in this 'darkened' state.

I've updated even to the latest 306 nVidia drivers to see if they would assist, but they haven't so far, any help is appreciative.

Regards,

Enko

Edited September 3, 2012 by Guest

[Enko]

Update: Seems to be doing this on unmodified cars too.

[Towncivilian]

Please download and run MTADiag and follow the instructions.

[Enko]

http://pastebin.com/AU31yyLL

The update it got me even was a bit of a reverse, but I tried it and same results.

[Towncivilian]

Could you see if the problem persists with that nightly build, please?

[Enko]

The one it asked me to go to? Yeah, it does. I'm on the nightly build it gave me and it's the same thing.

[Towncivilian]

Please install the following:

• Chipset driver
  
• Ethernet driver
  
• Storage driver 1
  
• Storage driver 2

Also try this nightly build; if it still crashes, pick an earlier build from the nightly build page until you find one that stops crashing.

Provide another MTADiag log after installing.

[Enko]

I reverted back to this version:

Multi Theft Auto v1.3-release-3916

This one works as intended, the vehicles are not darkened anymore, however the issues is I cannot upgrade to 1.3.1, and chances are it may become a requirement soon enough.

I'd also like to ask prior to doing so what you think the Chipset, Ethernet and Storage drivers are going to do to fix this, as I don't think they'll do anything at all to it (as it's fixed in a previous version of MTA for a start) and I have a rather delicate balance with drivers due to the volume of different programs I run.

Cheers

[Towncivilian]

I just always provide an entire list of drivers that may be out of date on a user's particular system, just to be thorough. If you don't want to update them, that's your choice - I also agree that they shouldn't matter with this specific crash.

If you could spare the time, please try to find the specific nightly build which causes your crashes, as it'll help us fix the problem faster.

[Towncivilian]

Actually, try this nightly build instead: https://nightly.multitheftauto.com/mtasa-1.4-unst ... et41D4.exe

It's building, give it a few minutes if you get 404.

[Enko]

404ing right now, I will try it soon.

Seemed to narrow it down between these two versions so far, I'm trying smaller increments now and post back with the results.

mtasa-1.3-rc-3974-20120408

mtasa-1.3-rc-4136-20120521

[Enko]

http://puu.sh/11xCa

That is on Multi Theft Auto v1.4-unstable-4606, problems are still there some of the cars are all dark still. Working on closin in the version now.

[Enko]

From what I can gather when I get up to around 4055 I get compiler errors when I join a server, then further up they seem to crash, though when I get to 4136 it seems to have returned back to having most of the cars darkened again. The most reliable ones I found were before rc-4010.

With that I have temporarily revered back to 3940 and going to stick with that for now as it seems to be the solution, though it means I have to suffer the lengthy connect times, and I suppose I need to upgrade soon enough.

[Towncivilian]

Thank you for the effort, I'll communicate your findings to a dev at some point tomorrow. The nightly I posted has a working link now, please try that one and report your results.

[Enko]

I did so with my post before my last one. 4606 still has the same problem.

I also have some friends who reported just this issue, directed them to a lower build 3940 and it fixed it for them as well, seems like something with one of the updates around or above 4010.

[Towncivilian]

You're correct, my apologies, it's rather late and my reading comprehension is declining, heh. I'll let you know of any results when I get them.

[Enko]

Not to worry, thanks for the current assistance.

[Enko]

This is a short video on the issue I made showing off the way it changes when the cars are streamed in once again. This is on version 1.3.1 4605.