Planet Descent
Technical => Technical => Topic started by: Wraith-1 on June 27, 2011, 08:13:42 AM
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... It used to work fine, now whenever I click on it, the screen changes resolution, and I hear the intro movie, but all I see is whatever was on the screen when I clicked the icon. I'm running WinXP sp2, already tried rebooting/reinstalling, it still works on all our other computers that are nearly identical to this one, if anyone can help me with this I would be grateful...
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Are your graphics drivers up to date?
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Yeah, just as Karx says, but I would also add an extra testing step.
Try to run the program in windowed mode. On d2x.ini, put out the semicolon on ';-window', so that it ends as '-window'.
But yeah, one way or another, I think it must be a problem with your vid card drivers.
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when you say "it use to work", what changed? a different operating system? DXX-Rebirth upgrade? new video card?
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Putting it in window mode worked with D2 - for about a minute and now it's doing the same thing that D1 was doing, when I clicked on it, it shows the 'working in background' cursor, and you can see D1x-rebirth.exe in the processes tab in task manager, but that's all that happens. When I say it used to work, the only thing I can think of that changed would be that I installed a DirectX RTP recently, I know that I had this problem on my old computer, and I even tried wiping the hard drive and installing the drivers fresh, it only started working again when I powered up a hard drive with older drivers on it, kind of strange.
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Does D2X-XL work on that computer?
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it only started working again when I powered up a hard drive with older drivers on it, kind of strange.
That may be your answer right there. Sometimes the newer drivers don't work as well as older ones.
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*digs up topic and brushes dust off of it with one of those cool hats archaeologists always wear in movies*
I just found out what was wrong with it. After uninstalling everything that could have possible been messing it up, I found out that it didn't like the "Auto-hide taskbar" option in WinXP. Oops.
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Well I am glad you found the issue and also thanks for posting the solution here so others might benefit. Am I correct to assume disabling auto-hide solved the problem?
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Yeah, enabling "Lock the taskbar" seems to fix it, I'm just glad I found out what it was right before the thanksgiving LAN party 8)