Soul Calibur - Missing Textures or Flicker. about nulldc HOT 28 OPEN

Sounds like a video card issue.  I have Zotac 8800GT and my configuration under 
the
PowerVR tab is:

Resolution- Native resolution
Aspect Ratio- Stretch
Paletted Textures- Dynamic, Full
Sort- Triangle
Modifier Volumes- Normal and Clip
Z Buffer Mode- D24FS8
Texture Cache Mode- Delete old

I'm running Soul Calibur with these settings.  I'm not having problems.  Try 
updating
your video card drivers.  It could also be an issue with Windows 7.  Nobody's 
worked
with windows 7 long enough to know whats compatible and whats not.  Although I
seriously doubt its the OS.

I'm running Windows XP 64 Service Pack 2 so you shouldn't be running into this 
issue
unless its indeed an issue with your video card driver perhaps.

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Yeah, It may be an ATI Problem...Im using the latest drivers, tried every 
config and
the same thing happens. Might any ATI user confirm this?

Its really strange cause the games runs perfectly except for the time 
flickering and
the missing name textures on the VS screen. But, the menus, gameplay and stages 
looks
perfectly.

I remember. A long time ago I was use Ati card. 
Ati+Nulldc=bugs on any ATI with any Nulldc. But now I have GeForce and no 
problem.
NVIDIA Better in all games PC or emulators. My favorite. 
P.S.
You can use Chanka plugin in older  versions. Must be better! 

It doesn't really matter what video you're using and "ATI+Nulldc = bugs is 
strictly
opinion based.  A friend of mine is running Nulldc without any issues with THE 
EXACT
same video card that alforata is using.  Major difference is- This guy is 
running
Windows 7 versus the guy I know is still running Vista or Windows XP 32.  It 
sounds
like a driver issue.  Besides... I'll be honest their is basically NO support 
for old
Geforce Series cards.  My 8800Gt is barely supported (seriously nvidia new 
video card
every month? Damn.) and nvidia doesn't go out of its way just to fix drivers so 
old
games will actually run correctly.  MOOT point I know, but its definately an 
issue of
waiting around for a new driver update.  Or hell you bought THEIR video card 
chat up
ATI and inform them of the problem so they can fix it sooner lol.  But don't 
tell 'em
you emulate or they might call SEGA *jk* Good luck man just be patient.  Their 
is a
lot of stuff that still needs to fixed in Nulldc and hopefully it will have a
glorious amount of support from the whole community.  (except for that one 
douchebags
complaint <from a different thread> about SSE2 instructions and how they should 
be
removed so he could run nulldc on an amd athlon lol).

Windows 7 x64 + HD5770 
Driver version: v8.74 (beta)

Yup, health bars, text on top of them and timer flickers. And also, no text on 
the
Versus screen. Must be an ATI issue indeed.

It is ATI Problem. i have this issue too.

It is not All ATI Problem.
Old ATI Card does not have problem like 9550(dx9 card).
All Nvidia, ATI old Cards are no problem.

Only ATI New Cards have problem.
Maybe, ATI cards supported dx10.1 ~ dx11(or exceeded shader 2.0) have problem.

I think, this is not Missing texture.
It may be Sorting problem on New ATI cards.

Addtional problem Since 1.03
Stage changing (texture) loading was very slow.

happens on hd4850, windows 7 64, catalyst 10.10

Issue 313 has been merged into this issue.

in r109~r111
Some of ATI problems are solved(Flicker and some texture missing).

Check again with previous revisions and make sure the changes you see ain't due 
to a new driver version instead.

Checked it with r108 and it flicked, so Iori is right, r109~r111 fixed the 
thing.

I havent updated the drivers yet (to 10.12 at least).

See if you can check exactly which revision fixed it please.

Screenshots or fake!

Salu2 - Darkness Knight

It seems the Shenmue "tree-fix" from r111 fixes it, and also the rounding 
hack-fix from r89 (for AMD, disabled by default).

It seems some still don't know about the hackfix already on the shader. Just 
open the ps_hlsl.fx file with any text editor, look for 
//color=round(color*255)/255; and remove the //. That's it.

Most people aren't up for compiling though, and download pre-compiled versions. 
Maybe it could be an option for now?

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Its just a small change on the .fx file, people can edit that one in notepad. 
There's no need to pre-compile it I believe.

However, this just fixes the noised cars in Jet Set Radio to me, and the 
flicker (in Soul Calibur) still occurs along with the shadows issue on JSR.

//Edit, tested it again... and yeah. It fixes it now (it didnt back then). 
Maybe can we add an option for this on the GUI? I mean, its kinda tedious for 
people to edit a file "the old way". I dont have a problem with it, but some 
people may be posting topics or problems about it.

Sounded like that good idea, so done by r119. Should we consider this fixed now?

Yeah. Feel free to close the issue.

Unfixed by r122.

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r136: still missing text during "VS" screen. Also flickering of the damage bars 
and timer. 

Can be fixed with editing the file talked about above though.

(I have an ATI mobility card, latest drivers and everything)