2010-03-24, 01:04 PM
I think maybe I've seen this before with a cheapo graphics adapter not meant for playing games.
In the case I'm describing I think what was going on is the texture surfaces are being lost by DirectX and Som is not restoring them. Most likely reason for this is A) not enough video memory, and B) the drivers are not keeping shadow copies of the texture in system memory (which some better drivers might do automatically... system memory may also be an indirect culprit)
That scenario is probably correctable but not something that anyone will very likely fix anytime soon.
In the case I'm describing I think what was going on is the texture surfaces are being lost by DirectX and Som is not restoring them. Most likely reason for this is A) not enough video memory, and B) the drivers are not keeping shadow copies of the texture in system memory (which some better drivers might do automatically... system memory may also be an indirect culprit)
That scenario is probably correctable but not something that anyone will very likely fix anytime soon.