Metallic armor does not appear mirrored

[praetorblue]

<p>Hi there,</p><p>I just installed an ATI HD 6770 graphics card, installed latest Catalyst drivers, and June 2010 DX9 (per <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?&topic_id=502100" target="_blank">this thread</a>). I run Win7 64 bit.</p><p>However, my plate armor that used to appear mirrored now looks like white plastic (screenshot taken on "Balanced" performance):</p><p><img src="http://vagell.com/temp/EQ2_000002.jpg" width="550" height="568" /></p><p>It still has some reflection, but it doesn't have the right reflective quality.</p><p>I even tried turning performance to "Extreme Quality" briefly, and it still looks like white plastic armor. So it's not some setting that's tuned too low.</p><p><strong>Any ideas what's wrong?</strong></p><p>Another computer in our home has this same model of graphics card (but different Windows version and other components), and my armor looks correctly mirror-like, so I know the graphics card is capable of it.</p><p>Thanks!</p>

[praetorblue]

<p>FWIW, I <em>can</em> see through windows in houses, and the wall-hung mirrors are reflective.</p><p>I think "mirror-like" armor uses some different graphics technology, though. Hoping someone has seen this before. :/</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>Can you disable the ATI Catalyst AI option and see if that makes a difference?  It's caused some issues in the past.</p>

[praetorblue]

<p>Hi Joshua,</p><p>No luck. It's not even an option to disable Catalyst AI in the Catalyst Control Center that comes with the latest drivers.</p><p>I tried setting it to "High quality" and unchecking "Enable Surface Format Optimization", but still no metallic reflection.</p><p>I also tried the XML and regedit changes suggested in <a href="http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=339612" target="_blank">this post</a> to disable Catalyst AI manually, and still no metallic reflection.</p><p>Any other ideas?</p><p>Thanks.</p>

[praetorblue]

<p>I solved the issue by reinstalling EQ2. Moved from station launcher installation, to streaming launcher. Works great, mirrored armor and all. So must've been some kind of corrupt install.</p><p>Thanks.</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p><cite>praetorblue wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I solved the issue by reinstalling EQ2. Moved from station launcher installation, to streaming launcher. Works great, mirrored armor and all. So must've been some kind of corrupt install.</p><p>Thanks.</p></blockquote><p>Ah ok just an asset issue.  Let me know if any other issues arise <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>