Particles and projectiles don't show up correctly

[bepawuca]

Here's a picture:
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2281/doddonner0000.jpg (http://img408.imageshack.us/i/doddonner0000.jpg/)
Projectiles and particles all appear as strangely colored lines and triangles. The floating shapes showing up in the picture are where a fire should be.
Any advice on how to fix this?

[Valteq]

For some reason it's showing all particle sprites/textures as the default wireframe particle. I'm not sure what would cause this, but have you tried installing any custom particle effects before? If that's not the case, perhaps you have your direct x level set to something very low? Have you added any custom launch options to the game? What are your video quality settings under advanced at?

[Furyo]

The only regular way this would happen would be by enabling it in the console via a command. But everything else would be showing up wireframe too.

Try to check the validity of your game files.

[Valteq]

Also, check your console for anything related to sprite/effect/particle/fire/smoke or something like that. Or anything involving .vmt/.vtf. There will be some errors about slime and goo particles that everyone gets, but just paste everything you get after joining a new server.

The fact that the wire frame around each particle has a unique color tells me that the random color initializer part of the particle system is working, but that the sprite texture just isn't being drawn properly.

Also, if you're not sure if you have custom particle effects installed, check to see if you have anything in this folder: C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\**yourusername**\day of defeat source\dod\particles

If you don't have a folder called "particles" in your "dod" folder, then nevermind. If you do have the folder, and have you have some files with the extension of .pcf, then these are particle systems. You may have downloaded some custom ones that are referencing custom sprites, or just don't work, and that could be causing the issue. Delete all the files with the extension .pcf and you should be good if that was the problem.

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[Vincent]

Here's a picture:
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2281/doddonner0000.jpg (http://img408.imageshack.us/i/doddonner0000.jpg/)
Projectiles and particles all appear as strangely colored lines and triangles. The floating shapes showing up in the picture are where a fire should be.
Any advice on how to fix this?

Have you tried reinstalling? I agree with Furyo, validate your game files first.

[bepawuca]

Yeah, the game files are valid, and I've tried reinstalling.. And I have no particles folder (and therefore no custom particle effects).

I found the problem, though: the game was set to DirectX 8.1. Setting it back to 9.0 fixed the game.

[Bradilee]

Yeah, the game files are valid, and I've tried reinstalling.. And I have no particles folder (and therefore no custom particle effects).

I found the problem, though: the game was set to DirectX 8.1. Setting it back to 9.0 fixed the game.

Really? I play 8.1 all the time with no issues. Strange that you should get this problem.

[bepawuca]

Yeah, I know it's weird, especially since it used to work fine under 8.1, but hey, if it works this way, I'm not going to complain about it.

[Vincent]

Yeah, I know it's weird, especially since it used to work fine under 8.1, but hey, if it works this way, I'm not going to complain about it.

At least the problem has been resolved. By the way, is your video card direct x 9 compatible?