game does not appear properly

[toothlessmifina]

Hi, Does anyone have this problem? I loaded the game but the environment is black and there are no messages or users appearing. My wolf is the only thing appearing. Anyone?

[Vespian]

Just gonna post this lovely quote here (many thanks to Red for providin' the followin' solutions):

Graphical glitches and other weird visuals can show up in different ways, and here's some examples of how it might look.

Cut off polygons, weird looking shadows and textures missing.

Distorted pictures and hard to read text

Complete black images not showing much at all

Only Red, green and blue colours showing.

The absolute First thing you want to try is to change the rendering mode for the game. There's different rendering modes you can pick from, usually OpenGL and Direct3D9. This decides which way your graphic card should process the game. This one is at standard set to OpenGL, so we'd want to set it to Direct3D9.

There's 2 ways you can change this setting.

How to fix it!
Either you start the game, go into the options menu, click the Video tab, and then change the rendering subsystem and restart the game.

Sometimes you aren't able to even enter the game, and all you can hear is the menu music, or it just crashes directly after launch. Those who experience this can enter the feralheart folder located in C:\FeralHeart at standard, find the file called "Ogre.cfg" and open it with wordpad.

This file works just as the ingame options menu, but instead of buttons and sliders, there's text.

What we're interested in is the top row


Set the top row text so it is just like in the picture with the text

Code: [Select]

Render System=Direct3D9 Rendering Subsystem
Save the file, and close it. Next time you run the game it should boot with the new settings you applied.

Even though this solves the graphical problems for most, there's still some unlucky ferals out there that the problems still remain for, but there's still 1 more thing you can try, and that is to update your graphic card drivers.

A computer is hardware, and with time it gets old just like any other thing in this world. If you had your computer for a while, and never updated the drivers, this might be the cause for FeralHeart not to work correctly. Installing Drivers for your computer is like installing any other program that it might need, though knowing how to do this might be tricky, so check the tutorial on how to Here!

If you already tried this and it's not working, chances are that your computer is getting old and can't handle the game. Installing drivers might help, but you're still running the same hardware. Try the game on another computer instead.

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[toothlessmifina]

wow, so fast, thanks for your help!

[Vespian]

'Course! Just give another nudge should the above suggestions not solve the problem.

[toothlessmifina]

Yea, Im not sure if its  a graphics card problem, I can see environments on start up options  but then it goes dark when the game starts proper. I wonder if its failing to connect to a server?

[Vespian]

Nay, t'is not that. Ye' wouldn't even have access to the map if the server failed to connect. I'd update yer graphics card just in case. I wouldn't hurt either way but there's also the possibility that some of the files didn't transfer right from the setup onto yer computer. Try uninstallin' FeralHeart (and all of its components) then re-download it. Be sure yer internet connection is rock solid while doin' so in order to have no problems with the files exchange.