Wonderful. I've been very much hoping you would return to the project. Great to see you back.

The rainbow thing is driver related, or maybe card related. My laptop has always suffered from the problem, but not either of my PCs. It may be to do with adjusting the screen gamma without repainting, but even if it is I don't know what to do about it.

Fair enough! I'll have a fiddle with the nVidia control panel to see if I can fix it.

I remember seeing those fade-to-black rainbow effects in Direct3D games (Syberia comes to mind) when manually changing the gamma settings in the nVidia control panel. So I just left them on the default values and instead used an external utility to calibrate them: 3Deep from E-Color, now called ColorWizzard. Works great -- only thing is, it's a commercial product which I got with my PixelView GeForce for free back then.

Paul: what about that option to disable the built-in CD-ROM support in Glidos? 🙄

Matt: since you've blocked hot-linking from your website, your avatar looks like a little red cross 😊

Uh, yeah, good point -- better put that avatar on another web space!

My nVidia gamma settings are at the default, and I still get the rainbow effect. Didn't do this with the last version of the drivers I used... harummph!

Kaminari wrote:

Paul: what about that option to disable the built-in CD-ROM support in Glidos? 🙄

Oh yeah. Thanks for reminding me.

I've got nothing but various problems on my GF2 Ti and GF3 Ti with the ForceWare 56.72 drivers and beyond (most notably, antialiasing and anisotropic filtering don't work at all). My current reference drivers are the 53.03 ones, they're still top notch despite being almost nine months old.

Other way around for me. I'd been stuck on 43.45, because of problems with later drivers, until 56.72 came along and sorted everything out.

Still, I'm going ATI soon: I think cool and quiet power will suit me better.

I'd be tempted by a nice and cheaper Radeon as well, but I'm an ex-ATI customer (Rage Fury Maxx, yeah!) and I have horrible recollections of their crappy drivers -- especially about their flimsy OpenGL support. The latest Catalyst drivers seem to have been improved lately, but you still can't force antialiasing in all 3D apps 😕

Since this is the happenin' thread... Matthew, I suppose you're familiar with the Dungeon Master Encyclopaedia? 😀

Only for the last four years.... 😀

BTW, is that David Hasselhoff?

None other! 😅

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