When I use the lamp (button "f") or fire a weapon, it looks like that:



This glitch seems to occur only outdors, when walking around in town. Indoors lamp and weapons work fine.
I recently changed my graphics card, from a Geforce 6600GT to a Geforce 7600GT. The glitch occured with both cards.

That's a well known problem with the latest nVidia graphic drivers - it can be solved by installing older ones, but I'm not sure, what version exactly. Plus it'll be solved in the next patch, if there is one.

What does that depend on?

Entirely on our Russian publisher. Meanwhile, I can help you find the drivers, that work.

So it is not very likely? Did Pathologic sell well in Russia, or was it a commercial failure?

I don´t want to "downgrade" my graphics drivers, because that might lead to problems with other games. Do you think it might be a problem of the drivers rather than of the game, so NVidia might fix it in the future?

Despite all, in Russia the game was a great success - won a lot of awards, including Russian game of the year, and second place all-in-all after Fahrenheit. The patch is actually likely to be released, only I cannot confirm that for sure at the moment. But if it'll be done, the patch will appear rather soon.

Another option is to use alternative drivers - I've heard of some projects using those. Also I doubt, that using older drivers will hurt the majority of others games - only graphic intensive, such as Oblivion. The problem appeared only after certain drivers were released, everything was fine with the game before - guess, nVidia has reorganised some standarts or something... ( I'll also try using 3D analyzer tomorrow - it's a programm to emulate videocard features. It might just work.

FOUND A SOLUTION: either turn off, or set to a really small distance the grass setting. Yes, everything will become ugly, but playable ^__^

The loss of performance during the graphics glitch isn´t a big problem anymore with the 7600GT, it just looks terrible =)
I reached day 10 as bachelor today, and the glitch won´t keep me from finishing the game or trying the other scenarios, but I´d still prefer to have everything working right and looking fine, so I´d really appreciate a patch.


May I make a little suggestion in case you get the chance to make a patch? I think it would be a big improvement to the gameplay, if opening the inventory would pause the game (like letters, map and status), and I guess it wouldn´t be a lot of work to implement that. That way, it would be MUCH easier to change weapons during battles - certainly a good thing in a game where running away doesn´t work, and where you have to trade for every single bullett. Also, you wouldn´t have to hurry (or save/reload) when checking how much food you still have, which medicine you need to buy, which items need to be repaired, if there are empty slots left in every category, and so on.

You won't believe how many times we were asked to pause the game while in inventory, but this is an element of making the game herded and somewhat more realistical, so I guess I'll have to disappoint you on this one. Actually, the game isn't that hard at all - the second time you play, your experience will help a lot - I myself managed to collect enough money for the best clothing and all weapons with plenty of ammo (read: made the character indestructable )) ).

Are there any news about the patch?

I recently tried using some newer beta drivers, and I also tried an alternate driver (NGO), but those didn´t work, too.

There will be no patch due to some publisher-related reasons. Sorry.

That´s bad news

Did you manage to get rid of the problem using that 3D Analyzer-tool?

Is there a way to completely disable the light-effects that cause the problems for outdoor levels?

Hi LxR,

did anyone in the russian-speaking forums come up with a fix for that lighting-bug yet?

I gave it a try with the recently released Forceware 94.24, but unsurprisingly it still doesn´t work. I also tried downgrading to 84.12, which didn´t work either.

Sorry, nothing on it... I guess never will be, to much regret. ((
Well, soon we're going to release a new game which will be a lot better graphicwise and I'll be working on the translation personally, which will ensure quality.

It`s 2009 and I have exactly the same problem. Is there any solution?

No, there is no other solution than to disable grass.

Thank you for the answer. Seems a harsh trade-off to me. No grass or a huge lighting bug. I can`t understand why such a great game is not supported via patches after release...