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Submitted by bare_elf on Sat, 2014-10-11 00:04

Gingercat wrote:
Of course Smile Sorry, more details:

I've ran dsupdate1.0-1.11.1462_eng.exe, which as far as I know is the latest patch.


No need to be sorry Gingercat.
Yes that is the latest patch for Dungeon Siege 1
Gingercat wrote:
I'm running on a Radeon 5850 (there are two in the machine, but Crossfire is currently off), connected by HDMI to my monitor. Have selected it using DSVideoConfig.exe

Yes you want to leave the Crossfire off when playing any of the Dungeon Siege Family of games. You may have to edit system_detail.gas from the oem version provided by the game since it does not include your video card. I know how to do this with Dungeon Siege 2 but all the links to the same for DS1 are dead. I will try to find a working one.

Gingercat wrote:
Have just today downloaded and installed the latest drivers for this card using AMD's Autodetect utility on their site (handy).
I will have a look to see if I can find any issues related to the current driver for your video card and the game. As there have been reported issues with older games with both the higher end Radeons and GeForce cards.

Gingercat wrote:
Resolutions don't seem to matter, whether using 640x480 or specifying widescreen res (1920x1080) from command line.
The wide screen resolutions are not supported by the system detail gas see above.

Gingercat wrote:
No mods installed at the moment; I'll mess with those once I get the darkness sorted Smile

Have installed DirectX 9.

Game's files are unmodified, fresh install.

Changing filtering, shadow quality etc don't make a difference.

Windows 7 itself is also fully up to date with patches etc.

I've had this game installed and running before on W7-64, not sure what I have / haven't done differently since I had to redo Windows due to HDD failure...

Edit to add: I don't think LoA is installed, just base DS.

Yes let us solve the darkness issue before adding anything else.
DirectX 9 is the correct version
Yes Windows 7 being up to date is a good thing.

I will look into a few possible issues and get back to you. If you decide to edit the system_detail.gas file make sure to save the old one. you can do this by renaming it to something like system_detail.gas.oem or whatever you decide.

Elf
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