Rayman 3 Shadow/Texture Issues

[Netaro]

Okay, I am getting desperate! I've looked online for about a month now for a fix but found nothing.

I believe I have shadow issues and not texture issues.
First off: My computer specs

[Laptop]
Intel core i7
Nvidia Geforce 860m
Windows 8.1 64-bit

At some parts of some stages (especially Land of the Livid Dead, pretty much 80% of the stage is black) there are black spots. I first thought there were missing textures but as I played through the games I noticed that sometimes the black spots would go away and it would look normal, but as soon as I moved away from that specific spot the texture returned to black.

I've tried everything.
TnL=0
Static Shadows=1 and I've also tried 0
Dynamic Shadows=1 and I've also tried 0
I'm running Rayman3 in Windows 7 compability mode, I've also tried XP.
I'm running Rayman3 as an administrator.
Running Rayman3 with my nividia card instead of my intel card. In the nvidia control panel I've turned off all the advacned stuff (Anti-Aliasing, v-sync etc..)

I am at a loss. Any help is appreciated! :3

"Rayman 3 already runs and looks well on PC, so we don't need to make Rayman3 HD for PC" -Ubisoft
Yeah right.

[RibShark]

Can you provide a screenshot of the black spots?

[Netaro]

Can you provide a screenshot of the black spots?

Sure: Here's a link to the short album: http://imgur.com/a/Lkp9f

And here's one of the spots the black dissapears and it becomes normal untill I move away from that spot


Black:


Not Black:

[incognito]

I have the same issue, it is because of the x64 processor arch

[Netaro]

I have the same issue, it is because of the x64 processor arch

So there's absolutely nothing I can do to fix it? :c
We need Rayman 3 HD.

Thanks for the answer!

[PluMGMK]

To be fair, Rayman 3 HD has its share of graphical glitches too.

[Netaro]

To be fair, Rayman 3 HD has its share of graphical glitches too.

True. But still.

[raymanik01]

in file ubi.ini in line tnl you should change value from 1 to 0 . it made my rayman 3 work on windows 7 64 bit system . the file you will find in c:\windows\ubisoft\ubi.ini

[Master]

I have the same issue, it is because of the x64 processor arch

I don't think having a 64 bit processor would be an issue, mine is also a 64 bit processor, and it runs perfectly fine.

There's another ubi.ini file in C:\Users\YOURUSERNAMEHERE\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Windows\Ubisoft. Try seeing if you can modify its values as well.

As for the other ubi.ini (in C:\Windows\Ubisoft) file, did you run Notepad (or whatever program you used to edit it) with administrator rights? I've had the file refuse to save if I tried editing it without admin rights.

[Harpic fraîcheur]

As for the other ubi.ini (in C:\Windows\Ubisoft) file, did you run Notepad (or whatever program you used to edit it) with administrator rights? I've had the file refuse to save if I tried editing it without admin rights.

Ah dude! I already had this problem when I tried to edit the resolution of Rayman 3 (for Full HD).
I made a copy of the file on my desk for editing edit, after that I moved this file on the right folder and it was running perfectly in 1920 x 1080 (Full HD)

[Netaro]

in file ubi.ini in line tnl you should change value from 1 to 0 . it made my rayman 3 work on windows 7 64 bit system . the file you will find in c:\windows\ubisoft\ubi.ini

Thank you for trying to help but I wrote in my post that I've already tried that. c:

[Netaro]

As for the other ubi.ini (in C:\Windows\Ubisoft) file, did you run Notepad (or whatever program you used to edit it) with administrator rights? I've had the file refuse to save if I tried editing it without admin rights.

Yep! I did. I also edited that other ubi.ini file but it sadly didn't work. Thanks anyway! :3

[Adsolution]

Have you tried disabling Transform & Lighting? That's known to cause a lot of geometry to not render correctly on some graphics chips.

[raymanik01]

i said about it

[RibShark]

This isn't a TnL problem. With TnL, certain textures refuse to render. This looks like it is rendering shadows where it shouldn't, which is a bug I unfortunately don't know how to fix.

[Adsolution]

i said about it

My bad, I performed a quick skim.

To elaborate on the bugged shadows idea, do they appear depending on where Rayman is, or where the camera is?

[Netaro]

i said about it

My bad, I performed a quick skim.

To elaborate on the bugged shadows idea, do they appear depending on where Rayman is, or where the camera is?

I believe it has someting to do with the camera position. Sometimes when I go into Look Mode (First Person) the black spots dissapears. But as soon as I get out of look mode they come back.

[incognito]

Yo. I found the way to fix it, ther is a file also named "ubi.ini" in the path C:/Windows/Ubi Soft.

TNL disabled and now tha game is running.

[Master]

OP already states that the TnL trick isn't fixing the issue.

From what I can tell, you've used both your Nvidia and Intel GPUs? Have you tried another copy of R3?

[Netaro]

OP already states that the TnL trick isn't fixing the issue.

From what I can tell, you've used both your Nvidia and Intel GPUs? Have you tried another copy of R3?

I own the GOG version. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it twice.

I really don't want to admit this but at one point I got so desperate that I actually downloaded a pirated verison of the game to see if it would be any different. Same issues.