i played it last year on a nvidia card and it was ok

Those blocks remind me of ATI's zbuffer, perhaps some sort of flat color screen overlay is trying to cut into the screen

yeah those blocks look strange. i have played omikron some years ago with my gf6800 and had no problems at all. maybe its a driver problem or the card (ATI) itself. you can try some sort of ATI tweak tool where you can modify direct3d stuff more deeply and/or reduce the hardware acceleration setting.

I remember playing demo of Omikron on NVidia 6600GT with no problems so I also think that this is ATI hardware or driver incompatiblity.

I contacted ATI Customer Care to ask about it, but they replied that due to age and little popularity of this game there is a little chance that someone from Catalyst Crew will ever fix it. Anyway I reported it to Catalyst Crew
yesterday. 😉

So probably the only way to make it playable is some tweak utility, modified drivers or something like that. I tried 3DAnalyze with no effect, I just don't know what setting could help here.

well i've avoided the 8.x Catalyst series for reasons like these, Cat 7.4 should work fine but it's probably too old for your card to use 😒

I think 7.11 is the first version which has 3850 support.

I uploaded the small video from Omikron's intro so you can better see how these artifacts look like.

http://s17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Zebius/ … t=Omikron-1.flv

EDIT: the same situation is with Omikron demo.

did it support glide ?

Rather not, they only say about DX 6.1 in readme file. And there are no 3dFX libraries in game folder and on CD.

I have the same issue--my vid card is the Radeon HD2600 pro. I've messed around with ATI Tray Tools and such to no avail. Managed to screw up my display somehow while trying different compatibility options in the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit--My picture had stopped refreshing or something, distorting the monitor. I had to reinstall my display drivers.

Anyways, I'd also appreciate any help in getting this game to work correctly.

I know I'm reviving a very dead thread, but I'm experiencing the exact same thing the original poster references. Dell Studio 17 laptop with Radeon 3650. I agree it seems to be an AA issue (if you increase the AA settings, the graphic glitches look different), and in software mode you don't see them (but it runs incredibly poorly).

Did anyone ever manage to resolve this? I'd love to play the game but at this rate I'll have to wait until I get another laptop with an nVidia card.

I know I'm re-reviving the even more ancient thread, though I just wanted to mention fixes for Z-buffer issue

Also, I'm still unsure whether the effect is working as it should.
See screenshots.

Last, the main menu.
I was starting to assume it was only working in the North American release..
but have a look here and here and you see that the black background behind the "title" is definitively not normal.

You should have a look at the GOG.com release of this game - it works like a charm on my R9 270X. I also provide the German language and text files on my website from my game discs and they're compatible with the GOG.com release. I don't know where you are from, but if you still have your original game discs I would consider buying the GOG.com version and migrating your language files in it.

Also thanks for your interesting posting concerning the Z-Buffer glitches with AMD graphics cards in the other thread! 😀

Greetings

Actually, I have the GOG version.. It's just that after a bad affair with Atlantis: The Lost Tales I always check the original game for missing stuff
Said this, after you fix Z-buffer (and perhaps remove Safedisc) I don't think you should have other issues.

EDIT: also, I don't understand what was all the fuss around patch 2.0.1.8. And what it did. And why 2.0.0.7 would be newer/incompatible.
EDIT2: mystery solved

Personally I have the original retail version in the box and it works great on windows 7. I use a E8400 Core 2 Duo with 8GB ram and an AMD Sapphire 7790HD. Never seen what happened to you before, I've had the graphics act weird on computers where the cards were not powerful enough to run it (pentium 3 and 4 machines) but not on my main system.