Unno wrote:

I'm one of those unfortunate people with a very early copy of Tomb Raider. Therefore, I get the spinning logo covering my screen starting with the very first level, and I find it difficult to evaluate the program at all.

From Paul's earlier post:
You may be able to get rid of it by going to the TR menu, selecting the Glasses and disabling mipmaping. Mipmapping achieves nothing under Glidos anyway.

It runs buttery smooth on 1.7GHz Celeron 4. Read through the various posts in the GliDOS forum to get an idea from others (be aware that people who had no problems at all rarely post).

The mipmapping option didn't change anything...well, it made the logo a slightly different color, but that didn't help me much. 😀

Unno

Another question. Is my task bar visible for just because Glidos's not registered?

Unno

No, Unno, your taskbar should not be showing up, heh...

Unno wrote:

Another question. Is my task bar visible for just because Glidos's not registered?

Unno

That is a bug of some sort. It affects some people and not others. I get that happen sometimes under Windows 98, and never under Windows 2000 or XP.

You can take the mouse pointer to the bottom of the screen, whereupon it becomes visible, and then drag the top of the task bar down to make it into a very thin line. It is something I may be bale to fix eventually.

I'm running under Win2K and I have this problem too.

I've found a simple workaround: when the Core logo anim appears at the beginning of the game, I just do a blind left click to make sure the game screen is put forefront and that's it - the taskbar won't never pop up.

Just a note, the left-click does not work in 98.

Unno

You could try editing the file OpenGlid.ini in the Glidos folder and change the value of InitialiseFullscreen from 0 to 1. You won't be able to get windowed mode at all like that, but it might sort out the task bar.

Please let me know if this works.

Sorry, it didn't work.

Unno

Unno wrote:

Sorry, it didn't work.

Unno

That's worrying. I'm not so sure I can fix it at all. Can you try setting windowed mode in Glidos and verify that the .ini file setting overrides it?

It sure did.

Unno

Oh! I thought the problem was that I create the wrong type of window for fullscreen OpenGL, but if that experiment with the INI setting doesn't work then it looks like OpenGlide doesn't change the window attributes correctly either.

Thanks for trying this out, anyway.