I've had this happen with the ATI 4870x2 a couple of times when I've tried to undock, also have undocked and the landmarks doesn't show any teleporters or outposts. In both cases, black screen and no structures, if I wait a few minutes the game disconnects me.

It doesn't happen everytime, but after it happens, I'm unable to deploy to the terrain for at least 15 mins. After that, it lets me get back in normally.

trying to open corp. management tab while in friendly outpost creats perpetuum crash.
   The first time i was able to open it and once i created corp storage it crashed now everytime i try to open corp management tab in outpost it crash's

I have access to a number of old HD 4550's from 2008 that have 256 mb on them.  I looked it up and that x1950 is from 2006 though so I don't know how old you're talking about.

One problem is, as I'm sitting here bored at work, I could test it and possibly some other old cards too but Perpetuum's game servers are blocked and even using vpn style proxies like ultrasurf it's inaccessible (probably because I can't use my own DNS at all, they block most ports both incoming and outgoing as well as doing packet inspection, etc).

If there were some way to load the client locally without it connecting to the servers and still have it load art assets and whatnot like it were connected I could test it anyway and bring the client from home.  As it is the furthest I've ever seen it get is the login screen.

I don't have a cellphone/contract at all so 3G is out

I can tell you the existing client is unplayable on an old nvidia nvs quadro 110m ~2006 though.

Performance. 

I will see what I can do.  I wonder if the black screen is similar to the crash-on-teleport/crash-on-undock bugs.

EDIT: Which are noticeably less frequent since I've been back.

ati x1650 black screen when i deploy to terrain

Eng Daniel: the 9600 didn't support pixelshader 3.0 yet so it's not on our target list.

Celebro: this is not actually an ATI fault, we just need to figure out what feature we're using that these cards didn't have yet. Need to do some proper debugging for this tho so we need hands on time with the hw.

@DEV Boyc Is the address in Hungary your guys actual office or are you at the one listed for the publisher?

EDIT: I'm asking because I have like 8 video cards to send you guys .. many of which are too old for me to test as I don't have AGP machines around anymore.

I have a old pc in the closet with a x1900xt graphics card, that close enough to what you want to test? If so I'll yank it out and give it a try.

PS: Also, any particular drivers? There are the old drivers, and the newer legacy drivers (Which worked like crap with it.)

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