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Crusader: No Remorse graphics issue

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First post, by Hater Depot

Posted on 2010-08-20, 02:23

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The intro movies and menu screen work fine, but when I get into the actual game the background is black, with only character sprites being visible. The sprites leave behind trails. It's possible to navigate through the level and do everything, flip switches etc. Meanwhile Crusader: No Regret shows no issues at all.

My machine is an Athlon XP 2200 with 1.5GB RAM and a Geforce 6800 running Windows 2000. The problem occurs under all cores and machine types, and in both fullscreen and windowed mode. I'm playing the game from an ISO since I don't have a working optical drive. In a different forum one person reported that an apparently identical problem was fixed by using an ISO instead of mounting a regular folder containing the game disc's contents (which was doing previously, same problem). I've attached a screenshot below.

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Reply 1 of 9, by SKARDAVNELNATE

Posted on 2010-08-20, 06:37

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What are your DOSBox.conf settings?

Reply 2 of 9, by Jorpho

Posted on 2010-08-20, 13:10

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It looks a lot like a file access problem. Did you run the install program on the CD from within DOSBox? If you did, were you using the same mounted directories at the time? (I vaguely recall that the relevant directory information is available in an easily-edited config file in the game's directory.)

You can always use the debug-enabled version of DOSBox to check what files (and file locations) the program is trying to open.

Reply 3 of 9, by Hater Depot

Posted on 2010-08-21, 00:58

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SKARDAVNELNATE wrote:
What are your DOSBox.conf settings?

I've attached them to this post.

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Reply 4 of 9, by Hater Depot

Posted on 2010-08-21, 01:04

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Jorpho wrote:
It looks a lot like a file access problem. Did you run the install program on the CD from within DOSBox? If you did, were you using the same mounted directories at the time? (I vaguely recall that the relevant directory information is available in an easily-edited config file in the game's directory.)

I installed from a mounted folder containing the CD's contents copied to my USB thumb drive. Still using same mountings, since the game won't load if it can't detect the CD.

Also, I know the CD itself is fine since I used it on a different machine recently.

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Reply 5 of 9, by SKARDAVNELNATE

Posted on 2010-08-21, 02:54

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Using your conf the game looks okay. I haven't tried mounting a USB drive.
Instead I have C:\DOS\GAMES as C and C:\DOS\Crusader-1.iso as D.

I did notice with your conf that pressing F1 crashes the game.
My settings are default 0.74 except:

[sdl]
fullscreen=true
output=ddraw

[dosbox]
memsize=63

[joystick]
joysticktype=none

Reply 6 of 9, by Hater Depot

Posted on 2010-08-21, 03:37

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Hmm. I guess it's possible a file got corrupted while copying the CD to my thumb drive. Otherwise I can't see any explanation.

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Reply 7 of 9, by Jorpho

Posted on 2010-08-21, 04:32

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If you want to check, you could use an MD5 digest program, like WinMD5sum, to see if the files are identical to those on the CD.

Reply 8 of 9, by Dominus

Posted on 2010-08-21, 12:14

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You better make an image of the game, since Crusader does not have any CD audio an iso will just work fine. Much better than a file going corrupt.
You shouldn't need to change memsize for the crusader games, they work fine with the default and with many dos games too much memory can have bad effects.

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Reply 9 of 9, by Hater Depot

Posted on 2010-08-21, 16:32

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Yeah. I'll have to make a new ISO and test again, then report here.

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