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Subject: Re: Fritz 7 Problems

Author: Mike Hood

Date: 16:09:43 02/14/02

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On February 14, 2002 at 07:55:15, Mike Hood wrote:

>On February 14, 2002 at 07:23:32, K. Burcham wrote:
>
>>Then I opened the Windows Explorer,
>>and it somehow overlapped with the Fritz display, the mini-icons were displayed
>>on top of the Fritz window, ie the Windows integrity was broken.
>>
>>
>>with your description, I think one possibility is a corrupted video card driver.
>>you could reinstall the video card driver.
>>after this if you still have a problem I would dump the hard drive, format, and
>>do a clean install on your operating system.
>>kburcham
>
>Okay, I'll try this... but remember, the problem only occurred with Fritz 7, not
>with any of my other software.

Whooo... I've solved the problem now, but the solution still leaves plenty of
questions open.

I checked my video driver, and I saw that a 16-bit colour resolution was
selected. Weird. I don't remember changing it, but I changed it back to true
colour (32-bit) and guess what? Fritz 7 worked perfectly. I tried 16-bit
resolution again, and Fritz 7 crashed again. I don't understand this... Fritz 7
ought to work in 16-bit resolution, but it doesn't, not on my computer, at
least. My PC is a Pentium III 733, 512 MB, I use Windows 98, I have a Voodoo 3
graphics card.



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