I start the game and seems to start loading the game normally. Doesn't ever get past "Loading Textures" though.

After a few seconds, the game window will do some weird stuff. It looks fine except for the right and left sides of the window get taken over by a bizarre amalgamation of images. It looks like a bunch of warped sprite sheets and maybe some space textures. I dunno. The point is that it doesn't load past that and just sits there until I hit ESC which stops the application.

Upon turning up the sound on my speakers, I realized I can hear music. So SOMETHING loads.

Operating system? Graphics card? We need details, man.

Yeah, it sounds like a major video card problem. What are your specs?

Crap. Sorry. Forgot about that.

It's an old eMachines.

Windows XP Home SP3
Radeon 9000 graphics card
512 megs of RAM
2.4GHz processor
I've been running the game at 1680x1050

I've ran all the DX tests I could and they returned no problems. I've messed around with the Vendetta configuration file since I can't often get into the game to change graphics settings. I've managed to log in and start a new character, but haven't been able to get further than that. From what I've gathered, the game runs but I just can't see a thing. Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I was under the false impression that the drivers for the graphics card were up to date. I updated them and the game ran fine except for the fact that my computer restarted just when the universe finished loading.

The first thing to try is to turn off texture compression by editing the config.ini file and setting this in the [directx9] section:

dxtc=0

It would probably be a huge speed hit for you, though, since you don't have that much memory. The next thing would be to lower the texture quality so it fits in your available memory.

The last thing would be to turn off shaders:

shaders=0

Thanks. That helped immensely. Game runs beautifully now. Yay! =D

Same problem on Ubuntu 9.04,
Samsung Q35
Videocard Intel 945GM Express.
Processor: Core2Duo 1.7 MHz
RAM: 2.5Gb
Screen resolution: 1280x800

I try to set "tc" and "doshaders" in config.ini to 0, but still have a problem.

Same problem here, except it just freezes while loading textures. Nothing weird happens with graphics. Also, it only happens about 3 of 5 times I run the game. When it gets past loading textures, it runs fine.

System: Ubuntu 9.04, GNOME

laptop Dell Vostro 1510
Intel GMA X3100 (shared memory)
2 GB RAM
Core2 Duo 1.8 GHz
1280x800 (widescreen laptop)

I also tried tweaking the config, but doesn't help.

On Linux, the settings for texture compression and shaders are under the [refgl] section:

[refgl]
tc=0
doshaders=0