Author: Kai Lübke
Date: 05:17:10 01/25/99
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On January 25, 1999 at 07:03:50, Bert Seifriz wrote: >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??? I see the same effect when I enable FastVid on my Pentium Pro (I suppose FastVid also activates Dual Page Mode for higher graphics speed), also only in Hiarcs 6/7 and MChess 5/7/8. Haven't seen it in any other DOS app so far. But it looks funny. :) --- Shep
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