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400.956 - What hardware can do alpha transparency?

ID:133978 Aug 22 2007, 4:29 am
RedlineM203	Once again, I'm without alpha transparency. What graphics hardware can I get that will get it to work? I guess OpenGL still can, but I can't get it to work at all.

Aug 22 2007, 4:58 am
Clowd	What kind of graphics card do you have? and Have you tried updating your graphics card drivers?

Aug 22 2007, 5:18 am In response to Clowd
RedlineM203	Clowd wrote: What kind of graphics card do you have? and Have you tried updating your graphics card drivers? Not sure on the actual card, but it requires a ATI Radeon X1300/X1500 driver. And yes I have.

Aug 22 2007, 6:06 am

Tom

RedlineM203 wrote:

Once again, I'm without alpha transparency. What graphics hardware can I get that will get it to work? I guess OpenGL still can, but I can't get it to work at all.

Are you using the latest build (currently 958)? If DirectX is failing, you should get an alert (assuming you have it enabled in the client/preferences). Are you 100% certain the game you are testing even has alpha in it?

Aug 22 2007, 6:28 am

In response to Tom

RedlineM203

Tom wrote:

RedlineM203 wrote:

Once again, I'm without alpha transparency. What graphics hardware can I get that will get it to work? I guess OpenGL still can, but I can't get it to work at all.

Are you using the latest build (currently 958)? If DirectX is failing, you should get an alert (assuming you have it enabled in the client/preferences). Are you 100% certain the game you are testing even has alpha in it?

You released a new build overnight? Updating now... yes, the game does have alpha.

EDIT: Tested with 958. No difference.

Aug 23 2007, 2:13 am (Edited on Aug 23 2007, 9:12 am)

RedlineM203

I'd like to add more - the map editor has been lagging since 956.

UPDATE: Its a problem with my project - I was invited to a beta test for a 4.0 game, and Alpha works there. I KNOW I added transparency to my games, but it isn't working.

EDIT: I've narrowed down what my problems where. I've found that Overlays (so I guess Underlays too) and custom Cursors don't support alpha transparency.. apparently.