Author: Bert Seifriz
Date: 04:03:50 01/25/99
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On January 23, 1999 at 20:48:45, Robert Sullivan wrote: >On January 23, 1999 at 20:15:58, Robert Sullivan wrote: > >>When running Hiarcs6 and MCP8, moving the mouse around "smears" the screen with >>a strange pattern that looks a bit like what I saw on the screen with the Rebel >>pulldown menu problem in the past. Interestingly, it doesn't happen with >>Rebel10. >>This just started. I recently installed the DirectX 6.1 update so I guess that's >>a suspect. I'm running Win98 on a PII 333 with 128Mb RAM. The video card is an >>ATI Xpert Rage Pro. Any suggestions? Any other info you need to make any >>suggestions? Thanks. >>Robert >This smearing effect also occurs while running TascBase and while running Tasc >Tutor. In other words, it's only happening in DOS programs running in Windows. I >wish I could describe the smearing better, but the mouse is ill-defined on the >screen and seems to "pick up" whatever it passes over and kind of smears it >around. In a way, it also looks a bit like the mouse is "scrubbing off" the top >layer of the display to reveal a pattern of what looks somewhat like the pattern >made by circuits you'd on a circuit board. Does this make sense to anyone? >Robert It is a graphics problem, and it can be avoided by changing some details in the graphics menu of Windows or your card. For example when you change DUAL PAGE MODE into SINGLE PAGE MODE it might help. But mybe this is not good for TOMB RAIDER??? Bert
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