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TR Unfinished Business graphics problem

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First post, by cyberboyn

Posted on 2003-11-02, 17:59

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I've successfully installed Tomb Raider with Glidos, running at 1280x1024, with VDM sound working perfectly, but I am having problems getting Unfinished Business to work. I have the original CD, and I downloaded the 3dfx tombub.exe to replace the original .exe file. Glidos starts the game and everything appears to be fine... the graphics render as expected... except that only the top left part of the screen seems to be rendered. The remainder of the screen is blacked off or inconsistent. Weird. Any ideas?

Reply 1 of 9, by Glidos

Posted on 2003-11-02, 22:58

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Is what appears in the top left a scaled down version of the scene, and is the other three quarters ragged triangles?

Reply 2 of 9, by cyberboyn

Posted on 2003-11-03, 11:47

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Yes, that is a good description of what I'm seeing on screen. It seems curious that I have this problem with Unfinished Business, but not with the original game.

Reply 3 of 9, by Glidos

Posted on 2003-11-03, 22:55

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Hmmm. That's something to do with the way the game is being started up. Its getting confused at the stage when its using VESA. Are you starting UB in a way different to TR?

Reply 4 of 9, by cyberboyn

Posted on 2003-11-04, 16:00

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I start in exactly the same way as I do for TR 1. I load up Glidos from the Start Menu, select Unfinished Business from within Glidos (the disc is in the CD-ROM drive), and keep the same settings as for TR: 1280x1024 with forced smoothing. I feel that it's some issue with the 3dfx tombub.exe, but everywhere I've checked on the web, this is the only file that's supposed to work. This is correct yeah?

Reply 5 of 9, by Glidos

Posted on 2003-11-06, 09:09

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Here's the tombub I use.

Reply 6 of 9, by Glidos

Posted on 2003-11-06, 09:10

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Here's another thought. Look in the Glidos.ini file and see if the VESASupport setting is the same for both TR and UB.

Reply 7 of 9, by cyberboyn

Posted on 2003-11-06, 18:34

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Let's see now... [VESASupport: Yes] is in TR's settings. It isn't in UB's configuration listing. I have put it in and am about to test it...

Reply 8 of 9, by Kaminari

Posted on 2003-11-07, 00:48

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Reply 9 of 9, by cyberboyn

Posted on 2003-11-10, 09:47

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... oh yes. Inserting the VESA support line makes moi a happy bunny. All's well that ends well. Cheers all.

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