First post, by hwh
I've got a new GTX 460 and what do you know, DOS graphics (that is, NTVDM) all have this terrible tint to them. There's no white anywhere. But, on the same card, monitor, system, I get the correct colour with DosBOX. Unfortunately I have no other PCIE cards to test with (this computer is new). Monitor is analog (DVI to dsub), but everything else seems to look right.
I also popped into safe mode, hoping this was some driver fluke, but nay, the colours are wrong, driver or not. I have also tried booting into DOS itself and verified that the graphics are wrong in there too. I asked Gigabyte about this, and they...well...they told me to send the card back to them. I sent the card to Gigabyte, they performed their tests on it, and shipped it back to me with no comment. They don't seem to understand my problem - as far as they are concerned the card works. I also tried posting this problem on Gigabyte's service forum and got no responses!
Just so you can tell what the hell I am going on about, here it is:
This is a correctly coloured bitmap:
One with the new computer:
That's Time to Die you're looking at there.
You might be tempted to say "use DosBOX," but I don't want to unless I'm missing sound emulation (id est Sound Blaster) or the game can't handle clock speed. I have my library of favorites which run just fine...except with this new computer they look all wrong. It's ironic, the 8x14 font is present, but the display looks terrible.