Trackmania Texture Issues

Moredhel · 6 Oct 2011 at 00:06

Hi Guys,

I've been playing Trackmania: United and until friday when I upgraded to the 580GTX it has been fine. All of a sudden it's like I'm playing something out of the early 90s.

Turning off AA or AF doesn't seem to make a difference, nor does changing the shader quality.

I'm using the Steam version so it should be the latest, but just to be sure I checked with the game's built in updater and it is the latest version.

No other games are showing any issues with the new card, including Trackmania: Canyon. I'm using the 280.26 Nvidia drivers, which their site says are the latest, I did a clean install with the new card just to be sure.

Anyone encountered this / have a fix?

Edit: Just updated to the 285.38 beta drivers, no change.

Moredhel · 6 Oct 2011 at 00:56

Oddly enough the car itself seems to render fine.

Moredhel · 6 Oct 2011 at 02:23

And fixed.

Seems that there is a bug in the Steam version of the game where you have cards with 2 or more GB of video memory.

There is a patch for it, but the patch only applies to the retail game.

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

To make it apply to the Steam version you have to go to Steam\SteamApps\common\trackmania united\ open Nadeo.ini in notepad or a similar text editor, then change the Distro setting to MILIN.

Then when you run the patch, point it at Steam\SteamApps\common\trackmania united\ and off it goes.

Glad this is sorted, just a shame the patch hasn't made it to the Steam version of the game!

Final8y · 6 Oct 2011 at 06:02

Sounds like my fix that i posted.

Steam should get this sorted.