Low Res Textures (SOLVED)

[Schmittfeuer]

So that's nice, the free version works flawlessly and the upgrade gives me the texture glitch. That said the common solutions (patch and ini edits) don't work at all for me, neither does turning of AA or anything else for that matter.

The patch doesn't even want to install in the first place with it just saying "you don't need this version".

Does anyone have a solution? Running on a GTX970.

EDIT:
Works on my laptop (GT540M) without any issues except janky fps, so I fear it's the whole VRAM stuff.

Reinstalling twice as of now did not change anything either.

=== SOLUTION ===
Alright I found the solution for me, I had to install the top patch from this list here.

http://www.tm-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=19288

Please note though that prior to installing the latest version I also downgraded the game to 2.11.23 (2009-10-09) in a prior attempt at fixing the issue, so I'm not sure if that step is required or not.

Other than that I'm running the game in administrator mode, but that's about it.

[Moon The Mischievous]

Hi.

I bought this yesterday and it sounds like I'm having the same trouble as you, textures that won't draw properly or shade, and jerkiness.

Can you point me in the direction of the common solutions please, I'll give them a go.

Thanks.

[Schmittfeuer]

Originally posted by Moon Rise:

Hi.

I bought this yesterday and it sounds like I'm having the same trouble as you, textures that won't draw properly or shade, and jerkiness.

Can you point me in the direction of the common solutions please, I'll give them a go.

Thanks.

"Locate the Nadeo Configuration Settings ini.

Not the STEAM_Nadeo,DON'T EDIT THIS ONE.

Edit the Nadeo Configuration Settings ini with Notepad or WordPad.

Change the Distro to Distro=MILIN

Then download the http://files2.trackmaniaforever.com/TmUnitedForever_Update_2010-03-15_Setup.exe

And browse to your Steam\SteamApps\common\trackmania united draw."

Copy pasted from some older post here, this seems to be the general solution, unfortunately it does not work for me.

[Moon The Mischievous]

Ah yes, thanks very much for posting that!

After my original post I did find that myself, the Nadeo website is useless for help, but I found the forum.

It has worked for me, sorry to hear that it's of no help to you. :(


The full forum link for anyone wanting to see is http://www.tm-forum.com/viewtopic.php?p=196489#p196489

[Captain QC !]

Same, tried every solution out there, none works. I am getting a "Wrong distro" message while trying to install... Thinking of getting my money back but it's a shame really.

[Schmittfeuer]

Originally posted by Captain QC !:

Same, tried every solution out there, none works. I am getting a "Wrong distro" message while trying to install... Thinking of getting my money back but it's a shame really.

At this point I'm thinking of digging out my old graphic card and putting it into the computer for this thing, but I fear that would generate more issues than anything. I recently got Turbo and just wanted some more tracks and all.

I still find it odd that the free version that's here on steam works fine, but this one doesn't.

[IJerichoI]

Originally posted by Schmittfeuer:

Originally posted by Moon Rise:

Hi.

I bought this yesterday and it sounds like I'm having the same trouble as you, textures that won't draw properly or shade, and jerkiness.

Can you point me in the direction of the common solutions please, I'll give them a go.

Thanks.

"Locate the Nadeo Configuration Settings ini.

Not the STEAM_Nadeo,DON'T EDIT THIS ONE.

Edit the Nadeo Configuration Settings ini with Notepad or WordPad.

Change the Distro to Distro=MILIN

Then download the http://files2.trackmaniaforever.com/TmUnitedForever_Update_2010-03-15_Setup.exe

And browse to your Steam\SteamApps\common\trackmania united draw."

Copy pasted from some older post here, this seems to be the general solution, unfortunately it does not work for me.

Well, that did it for me, many thanks!

[76561197977267103]

I have been trying to get this game (TM United) free-test-version to install/Start for TWO YEARS

It has ALWAYS refused to start. And I have tried around (what seems like) 200 installs on around 3 of my gaming rigs.

TC Stadium (I got yesterday) took me the 2 years to buy because this game has always refused to work on either my Haswell i7 GTX780 rig or my Haswell i5 ASUS R9 Crossfire rig (or my older HD7770 rig). I probably tried it on my i7 laptop also.

I refuse to splash out any money on TM United; nor TM Turbo, until I have had TM Stadium working at least a couple of weeks, and unless the TM Turbo reviews are higher and the number of people are playing (500) on average goes up..
This older game I have to pass on as life is too short.

P.S.
TM Stadium when I got around to buying it worked first time (make an account), and runs really nice at the highest settings.
I MAY get the other trackpacks .. depending.

EDIT
Just a thought...
Maybe TM United is region coded? (we in the Far East).

[Soli]

i make the guide step by step, but when i install the TmUnitedForever_Update_2010-03-15_Setup.exe then come "it could not be determined which version is installed"

i Have the Steam version and Upgrade von Nations forever to United

[Schmittfeuer]

Originally posted by Soli:

i make the guide step by step, but when i install the TmUnitedForever_Update_2010-03-15_Setup.exe then come "it could not be determined which version is installed"

i Have the Steam version and Upgrade von Nations forever to United

I had the same issue, what I did was take some random version number from the website I linked and wrote that into the nadeo.ini file (or whatever it was, NOT the steam version of the file that's also in the TM folder). That should tell the installer that your version is older than it actually is, allowing for it to install over it.

[Solanum Tuberosum]

I've tried installing the patch, setting my AGP usage to 100%, making sure my system is using the correct graphics card, and a good old fashioned reinstallation. Nothing has worked. Is there anything else I can try?

Windows 10 Home
Intel i7 6500U
NVidia GeForce 945M

http://imgur.com/5qcaZzM

Edit: Tried turning anti-aliasing down from 16-sample to 2-sample. Looked like the problem was fixed, but now it's doing it again, though the problem is not as severe as before.

Edit 2: Decreased quality from Very High to High, and now it's working again. Not sure exactly what the problem is, but if you're having this issue and none of the established fixes work for you, try just lowering the quality settings.

[Muncher]

Originally posted by A Slightly Less Stupid One:

I've tried installing the patch, setting my AGP usage to 100%, making sure my system is using the correct graphics card, and a good old fashioned reinstallation. Nothing has worked. Is there anything else I can try?

Windows 10 Home
Intel i7 6500U
NVidia GeForce 945M

http://imgur.com/5qcaZzM

Edit: Tried turning anti-aliasing down from 16-sample to 2-sample. Looked like the problem was fixed, but now it's doing it again, though the problem is not as severe as before.

Edit 2: Decreased quality from Very High to High, and now it's working again. Not sure exactly what the problem is, but if you're having this issue and none of the established fixes work for you, try just lowering the quality settings.

I'm totally having this issue and nothing I can see seems to work. >.<

UPDATE

I fixed it.

"Delete local content."

[kewlsnake]

Hello, none of these solutions worked for me.

I have a laptop with GTX850M card.

What DID work for me was forcing the game to run on my integrated graphics card (Intel HD 4600) AND running the game at medium quality or lower.

When I switched the graphics settings to high again, I got low res textures again.

Running the game at medium quality with my integrated graphics card still gave me 80-120 fps depending on the map and looked way better than the low res texture stuff.

EDIT: Also make sure you put your anti aliasing and filtering options as low or possible. The low res textures reappeared when I put them so high as possible.




I wonder if you need to make sure the game uses as little Vram as possible because if it crosses the treshold of however little it has (it says 40mb for me), it will downres the textures automatically. A better way would be if you could somehow tell to the game that you have a lot more of Vram available, wouldn't know how though.

[tarasis]

Originally posted by Schmittfeuer:

Originally posted by Moon Rise:

Hi.

I bought this yesterday and it sounds like I'm having the same trouble as you, textures that won't draw properly or shade, and jerkiness.

Can you point me in the direction of the common solutions please, I'll give them a go.

Thanks.

"Locate the Nadeo Configuration Settings ini.

Not the STEAM_Nadeo,DON'T EDIT THIS ONE.

Edit the Nadeo Configuration Settings ini with Notepad or WordPad.

Change the Distro to Distro=MILIN

Then download the http://files2.trackmaniaforever.com/TmUnitedForever_Update_2010-03-15_Setup.exe

And browse to your Steam\SteamApps\common\trackmania united draw."

Copy pasted from some older post here, this seems to be the general solution, unfortunately it does not work for me.

Just played TMUF for the first time in ages and noticed I also had the low res issue (also have a GTX 970). This fix worked perfectly for me, the game is back to its old self. Thank you for sharing the fix here.

[Drunk Driver]

Hi everybody, i have the same problem, but
i changed Distro=TAHOR to Distro=MILIN in my Nadeo.ini file and when i want to install TmUnitedForever_Update_2010-03-15_Setup.exe it says "You don't need to install this version".

Does anybody know what to do please?

Edit: Solved by changing Version=2.11.26 to Version=2.11.16, then i successfully installed the patch and it's fine now :)

[Mrr7782]

Originally posted by Schmittfeuer:

So that's nice, the free version works flawlessly and the upgrade gives me the texture glitch. That said the common solutions (patch and ini edits) don't work at all for me, neither does turning of AA or anything else for that matter.

The patch doesn't even want to install in the first place with it just saying "you don't need this version".

Does anyone have a solution? Running on a GTX970.

EDIT:
Works on my laptop (GT540M) without any issues except janky fps, so I fear it's the whole VRAM stuff.

Reinstalling twice as of now did not change anything either.

=== SOLUTION ===
Alright I found the solution for me, I had to install the top patch from this list here.

http://www.tm-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=19288

Please note though that prior to installing the latest version I also downgraded the game to 2.11.23 (2009-10-09) in a prior attempt at fixing the issue, so I'm not sure if that step is required or not.

Other than that I'm running the game in administrator mode, but that's about it.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
It fixed my problem!