No ships models in game w/ ati 7970

I'm not able to see any ships while playing, nether in the ship database, nor while playing missions. I can see the lighting from the engines on ships, but where the ships are supposed to be there is nothing but space as if they were invisible. All other graphics seem to be working fine as far as the hud and wingman faces in comms.

I'm have a powercolor ATI 7970 using cat 12.2 drivers. I read the known issues and saw that there is issues with older ati cards using the 12.2 drivers however since that doesn't apply to me, im appealing to anyone here for help.

Thanks,
Chewy

Having spent more than a decade as an ATI lover, I can say that their Catalyst software suffers from being too inclusive more than deficient, which is why the older cards have issues with updates.

That being said, you might try bumping your graphics level back in the display properties screen. Not sure how it is other than on XP, but under your "display properties/advanced" screen there should be a "troubleshooting" tab with a slider in it. Dial it back a notch and see if that helps.

I think you'll find that the 7970 is the latest AMD flagship card and not an old card

In any case, I have the same problem with a 6970 no matter what drivers I try. I had the exact same issue with Freespace 2 SCP 3.6.12 and the only way I could fix it was by using the 3.6.14 RC5 executable. I assume WCS is based on version 3.6.12??

Thanks. Using the fso_cmdline.cfg I can see my own ship and the wingman's ship but parts of the hangar/dock (like the floor) are invisible. At least it seems playable.

Tolwyn wrote: Thank you for your feedback. Sounds like a shader complilation issue. You could try disabling shaders via the fso_cmdline.cfg supplied in the "performance tweaks" thread.

Sorry m8 could you give a lil more instructions, use layman terms if you please

I still dont get it, I made a file called fso_cmdline.cfg and put the cmnd lines in the file in /data but this hasn't done anything.

Re-Enable shaders and put the file contained in this archive in to your Wing Commander Saga folder.

filesmelt.com/dl/atioglxx.7z

how do you re enable shaders?