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First post, by Great Hierophant

Posted on 2014-07-27, 01:20

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When playing Tex Murphy DVD, I have always had a slight problem. The original game shipped with support for only a few hardware MPEG2 decoders, but the last patch (1.04) allows for certain software MPEG2 decoder support. The recommended software decoder is Mediamatics' DVD Express. This will work, but has an annoying issue. When you have to respond to one of the characters, their image should freeze. However, with the Mediamatics' software, I have always seen a blank purple screen instead. Is this a common problem? Is there a software fix?

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Reply 1 of 7, by F2bnp

Posted on 2014-07-27, 10:30

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I think the last time I replayed this, I used an older version of Power DVD and it was flawless. Why don't you give that a try instead?

Reply 2 of 7, by Great Hierophant

Posted on 2014-07-28, 15:38

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Do you have any suggestions for a player that will run on Windows 98SE and work with this game? Which version of PowerDVD did you use?

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Reply 3 of 7, by ElectricMonk

Posted on 2014-07-28, 19:25

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Great Hierophant wrote:
Do you have any suggestions for a player that will run on Windows 98SE and work with this game? Which version of PowerDVD did you use?

For what it's worth, I had similar issues using the GOG versions of Under a Killing Moon, Pandora Directive, and Overseer. Hope you get it to work!

Reply 4 of 7, by F2bnp

Posted on 2014-07-28, 20:45

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Great Hierophant wrote:
Do you have any suggestions for a player that will run on Windows 98SE and work with this game? Which version of PowerDVD did you use?

It's been a few years, but I think I just grabbed one of the many software CDs that came with DVD players in the early 00s!

Reply 5 of 7, by Totempole

Posted on 2014-07-31, 20:36

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Is the DVD version significantly better than the CD version?

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Reply 6 of 7, by F2bnp

Posted on 2014-07-31, 21:56

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The video is MPEG2 quality and also running at a much smoother framerate. I never beat the DVD version, but the video quality is just much much better!

Reply 7 of 7, by Great Hierophant

Posted on 2014-08-10, 18:14

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ElectricMonk wrote:
Great Hierophant wrote:
Do you have any suggestions for a player that will run on Windows 98SE and work with this game? Which version of PowerDVD did you use?

For what it's worth, I had similar issues using the GOG versions of Under a Killing Moon, Pandora Directive, and Overseer. Hope you get it to work!

Under a Killing Moon and The Pandora Directive were DOS games and do not support MPEG-2 DVD quality video. Any issues with those two games must have a different cause than the Windows-only Overseer.

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