Pookie Posted July 10, 2001 Posted July 10, 2001 I don't know if it's a hardware or software problem... I have both the latest directX and the latest drivers for my video and motherboard... But occasionally when I am playing graphics will change to really odd colors (hot pink, highlighter green) and the pixels seem messed up as well. Set to 16 bit color, 600 x 480... It only happens randomly while playing.
Guest grannen Posted July 10, 2001 Posted July 10, 2001 In the EMI Menu select Options - Configuration Options - Trouble Shooting and try with Enable Direct3D and Force 16 Bit Color. ------------------ and Grannen
Pookie Posted July 10, 2001 Author Posted July 10, 2001 Thanks... I'll try that and post again if I get that problem again.
Pookie Posted July 12, 2001 Author Posted July 12, 2001 Well, it worked for a while... but after about five minutes of gameplay (which is quite normal) I had corruption again. I do not know what the problem is, but if I save and restart the application, then the color corruption disappears. However, if I were to stay in the game and continue playing (which is possible) once a background has been corrupted, it remains corrupted in the exact same way. So if the door is green and pink, then if I were to leave and come back, it would still be green and pink. If anyone has any other ideas, they would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Guest grannen Posted July 12, 2001 Posted July 12, 2001 It seems to be a Cache problem and try to goto http://support.lucasarts.com/ and download the patch 1.1 for EMI. It might solve it. ------------------ and Grannen
InfinitySquared Posted July 13, 2001 Posted July 13, 2001 How much RAM do you have? Check your Virtual Memory. ------------------
Pookie Posted July 13, 2001 Author Posted July 13, 2001 I had been looking at your earlier replies on other posts and found the EMI patch that you have mentioned. I have downloaded it and installed it, however I have not seen a difference in the problem. In response to InfinitySquared, I have 96mb of RAM, and my virtual memory is controled by windows. Suggestions on the next course of action? Thanks!
Guest grannen Posted July 13, 2001 Posted July 13, 2001 Be careful when doing following: Goto Start - Run and type sysedit Select System.ini and go down to [vcache] Insert or modify these two lines MaxFileCache=12288 MinFileCache=2048 But make a note of your present numbers! Save and reboot. Those numbers are from my own System.ini and hopefully it will work for you too. ------------------ and Grannen
InfinitySquared Posted July 13, 2001 Posted July 13, 2001 Originally posted by Grannen: Be careful when doing following: Goto Start - Run and type sysedit Select System.ini and go down to [vcache] Insert or modify these two lines MaxFileCache=12288 MinFileCache=2048 But make a note of your present numbers! Save and reboot. Those numbers are from my own System.ini and hopefully it will work for you too. Aren't those system specific though? ------------------
InfinitySquared Posted July 13, 2001 Posted July 13, 2001 Pookie, you might as well set your Virtual Memory to about 250 for both minimum and maximum. If you can spare the space. Wait that just reminds me, you don't happen to have less than 100mb free space of your main drive do you? ------------------
Pookie Posted July 13, 2001 Author Posted July 13, 2001 I have about 5 GB of free hard drive space, so no worries about that. I messed with the vitual memory settings, and instead of fixing the problem, it just stated causing other problems as well (like the computer slowing down and such) so I just set it back to let Windows control. I am going to go back to the game and capture a screen shot of the problem so that you can see what I see. Thanks for the advice!
Pookie Posted July 14, 2001 Author Posted July 14, 2001 http://www.angelfire.com/ab5/tempspace/help.jpg **Angelfire is being stupid. Please copy/paste into address bar in order to see image** That is what it looks like whenever it screws up. Last time it happened, it actually booted me out of the game back into windows and shut down the game completely. Any help would be greatly appreciated. [This message has been edited by Pookie (edited July 14, 2001).]
Guest grannen Posted July 14, 2001 Posted July 14, 2001 But did you try with the settings in the system.ini file? And how large is your memory on the graphic card? ------------------ and Grannen
InfinitySquared Posted July 16, 2001 Posted July 16, 2001 If it were me, I would just do a clean reinstall of Windows. I can almost guaruntee that it will fix any of your problems. Always works for me. Before that I would try getting new drivers for your motherboard, video card, and try setting your AGP apeture size in your BIOS to half of your physical RAM. I can't think of anymore tips.l ------------------
InfinitySquared Posted July 16, 2001 Posted July 16, 2001 If it were me, I would just do a clean reinstall of Windows. I can almost guaruntee that it will fix any of your problems. Always works for me. Before that I would try getting new drivers for your motherboard, video card, and try setting your AGP apeture size in your BIOS to half of your physical RAM. I can't think of anymore tips.l ------------------
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