Hey, I just installed One whole unit Blood 1.21, I use WinXP.
The game ran fine for a while, until I got all this wierd colours crossing all over my screen. Notice that I play with fullscreen when this problem occurs.
When I play in a window this problem does not happend, and the screen is much brighter during window play then fullscreen.
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check your system for programs that run in the background.
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I run: Mozilla Firefox (always) Atomic alarm clock, Utorrent (always), Messenger, Steam, Deamon Tools, and last a software for my soundcard, (eq, speaker settings, ect). Any thing I should turn off, that is known to cause problems with Dosbox 0.72?
Thanks!
Especially the things that put icons in the tooltray
1+1=10
Check my post above yours. From what you say the only thing in my tool/taskbar is mozilla firefox.
tooltray = the area next to the clock
1+1=10
I know 😀
I've closed everything exept messenger, Win XP volume control, nvidia settings, and atomic alarm clock. I will check the game now.
Wierd because it only happends in fullscreen mode 😖
Maybe it's the radiation from the atomic clock 😁
1+1=10
haha 😁
Well, the game runs perfect now, I can once again enjoy the Cryptic for blood 1. Dosbox is really great, maybe in time it will have multiplayer support, like steams' list of servers, hehe 😁
Your programs may not be the problem. Have you experimented with different output methods? I find that OpenGL is best on my desktop system, but my laptop (has a puny ATI built-in card) is slow in GL, and fastest in DirectDraw. I almost never use surface or overlay, unless I am on some cheap video accelerator, like an Intel or something.
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wrote:Your programs may not be the problem. Have you experimented with different output methods? I find that OpenGL is best on my desktop system, but my laptop (has a puny ATI built-in card) is slow in GL, and fastest in DirectDraw. I almost never use surface or overlay, unless I am on some cheap video accelerator, like an Intel or something.
The game is working perfect now, but if the problem comes back I will try out your advice. Will check surface & overlay though. Thanks for help guys.
I'm having this exact problem, which I've never encountered before.
Closed as many programs in the tray, as possible, yet still have the same issue. Also, sound is extremely jumpy, windowed, or maximised. Never had this before either.
No new hardware or programs have been installed, any ideas?
I have an ATI card, is some tinkering like Sephiroth mentioned necessary?
wrote:I'm having this exact problem, which I've never encountered before. […]
I'm having this exact problem, which I've never encountered before.
Closed as many programs in the tray, as possible, yet still have the same issue. Also, sound is extremely jumpy, windowed, or maximised. Never had this before either.
No new hardware or programs have been installed, any ideas?
I have an ATI card, is some tinkering like Sephiroth mentioned necessary?
All I can say is that I rebooted my computer, and the game was running really great. I closed everything in the toolbar / tray, included Mozilla firefox / Internet explorer, I also reinstalled the game, (to the same drive as where Dosbox is installed)
My best advice would be to follow the help I got above, then restart your computer, and or reinstall the game.
EDIT: I did not follow Sephiroth advice untill I got the game working after a reboot.
Are you using a laptop or desktop?
It sounds like there is an issue with the memory (either video or system).
It might be as bad as the memory is having issues, or as simple as
windows is sharing the program's memory pool. (Antivirus?)
Apologies, meant to clarify I also have a laptop.
Antivirus is constantly on, although odd it would trigger an issue now, having never experienced this before.
There is low memory on the hard drive, but we're talking 10 gigs space; nothing too bad. RAM is a decent standard at 256mb.
Hmm.. Try set the swapfile to be a fixed size (Right+Ctrl on My Computer,
properties/advanced/Settings/Advanced/Change .. something like
min=max =512mb on C drive, SET).
Also try without a swapfile (although this will break multimedia timings)
wrote:Apologies, meant to clarify I also have a laptop.
Antivirus is constantly on, although odd it would trigger an issue now, having never experienced this before.
There is low memory on the hard drive, but we're talking 10 gigs space; nothing too bad. RAM is a decent standard at 256mb.
Have your antivirus software recently updated? Try disableing the antivirus.
Did it help to reboot your computer? Try run ad-aware, spybot, ect.
Do a virusscan aswell, I only run the computer clock, sound control, nvidia settings manager in the tooltray, nothing else. That helped me.
