Bridge Commander - Phaser/Disruptor Graphics Glitch

[TerryR]

Hi Folks,

I am running Bridge Commander with the 1.1 patch.  The game runs fine, except for one graphical oddity.

When phasers/disruptors are fired, the "stream" of the phaser/disruptor beam looks slightly fuzzy, distorted, corrupted, "dirty," whatever you want to call it.  I have tried changing resolutions, tried enhanced glows, etc., nothing seems to help.

The ships, crew members, and everything else looks fine, just the phasers/disruptors.  The torpedoes look fine, too...

I am not trying to be picky- I suppose I should be happy the game runs- but I wanted to check with the experts here.

I have a AMD Black Edition Phenom 64 Quad-Core 9950 , Windows XP Home, nVidia 9500GT GPU 512 MB PCI-Express Video Card, 4GB DDR2 PC2-6400 800MHz 240Pin Memory (2x2GB).  My video card drivers are up to date.

Does anyone have any advice for me?

Also, by running Bridge Commander with this graphical glitch, do I risk adversely affecting my video card drivers in any way (i.e., will running Bridge Commander cause the drivers to be corrupted?)?

Thank You

[Nebula]

an image would be nice to see what you are talking about.

and no I don't think that could hurt your system...

[TerryR]

Thanks Nebula,

I will put up a screenshot here shortly.

What is weird is that I just got a new computer, and this issue occurred on my old Windows Vista computer, as well.  I think on my old computer I had an nVidia 8500 graphics card.

I wonder if cleaning the disc would make a difference........

[ACES_HIGH]

that probably won't matter.  My best guess is that the graphics settings are too low.

[TerryR]

What is the best way of posting an image on these forums?

Thanks.

[Nebula]

you can attach the image here.

[TerryR]

I hope this worked.....

If you can see the image, notice the static effect on the phaser beam coming from the left-hand side of the viewscreen.  This is what I am referring to.

Thoughts anyone?

[ACES_HIGH]

that might be imperfections on the texture map, pixels that don't quite match the rest in color, or the file may have gone slightly corrupt.  There's even a slight chance that your graphics card is having trouble reading the texture properly.

[JerichoKru]

I saw this when my gfx card was overheating....is the 9500 within normal temps?