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Drow
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Joined: June 06, 2003
Posts: 449
From: USA, WI
|  Posted: 2005-02-09 19:53
Its probably my system but anyway. In release when I hit the dang windowz key, and I get the window back, the text sometimes is all blocks, thus unreadable. This is all text, chat and text in the icon boxes, ect all.
In beta, I hit the kill me key (windowz) and when I got it maximized again it was all blocks. Normaly I just leave the game and rejoin. I can not fix it. I shut the game down completely, restarted, joined a map, block text still.
laptop
windowz 2000
service pack 4
x86 family 6 model 8 steping (it dances?)
~327,000 KB RAM
ATI Rage mobility-p agp
bla bla bla, drivers up to date as far as I know.
Im gana uninstall, rinse, wash, install.
I uninstalled. downloaded new, install. still block text in game.
[ This Message was edited by: Drow on 2005-02-09 20:16 ]
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Mithrandir
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Joined: October 22, 2001
Posts: 1276
| Posted: 2005-02-09 20:35
Try putting your hard drive and monitor inside an MRI.
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Ospolos
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Joined: January 31, 2004
Posts: 567
From: ON, CANADA
| Posted: 2005-02-09 20:59
turn off smooth fonts.
[ display properties ---> Appearance --> Effects button --> disable smooth fonts]
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Drow
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Joined: June 06, 2003
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From: USA, WI
| Posted: 2005-02-09 21:47
bla. smooth fonts was off. I uninstalled again, removed the directory, restarted pc, reinstlled. not its worse.
The procedure entry point ...bla bla bla... could not be located.. some dll.. bla bla. Restart pc, same thing. ill try more later.
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Drow
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Joined: June 06, 2003
Posts: 449
From: USA, WI
| Posted: 2005-02-12 12:32
I uninstalled. Upgraded to DX 9.0c. Installed. all is ok now. Text is normal again.
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Ok. forget that. I played 1 game. Left, shut program down. Started it up again, tried to play and the text is all blocks again. Oh well.
[ This Message was edited by: Drow on 2005-02-12 12:36 ]
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Doran
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Joined: March 29, 2003
Posts: 4032
From: The Gideon Unit
| Posted: 2005-02-12 13:18
speaking of borked text, theres a bit of a render issue involving text and stars.
Fig. 1 - jumping form icc gate to abz in eri, abz is between me and eri's star. note that text overlapping the star can not be read/is hard to read
Fig. 2 - arrival at abz, text is correctly rendered again
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Joined: May 30, 2003
Posts: 2449
From: United Kingdom
| Posted: 2005-02-12 13:32
DarkSpace doesn't support being run windowed or alt+tabbed(windowed mode is for debugging purposes only) , and so you might get corruption when you hit the wondows key and maximise the program again.
It might be possible for Faustus to disable the Windows key when DarkSpace is running, I know it has been done in other games.
It's possibly an issue with hte mobility chip, but have you tried enabling/disabling alpha fonts in the ds setup?
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$wiss
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Joined: November 08, 2002
Posts: 640
From: Prancing in the meadows with Jesus
| Posted: 2005-02-12 13:41
Bah, i can't live without Alt+Tab!!! It keeps me alive!
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BackSlash
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Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2005-02-12 15:18
DarkSpace has windowed mode in the resolution combo box in setup.....
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Drow
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| Posted: 2005-02-13 09:00
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, but have you tried enabling/disabling alpha fonts in the ds setup?
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heh, ya. its normaly off. When I turned it on... bad.. program would shut down with no warning.
I know its something with my laptop not likeing something.
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From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2005-02-13 14:01
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On 2005-02-12 13:18, Doran wrote:
speaking of borked text, theres a bit of a render issue involving text and stars.
Fig. 1 - jumping form icc gate to abz in eri, abz is between me and eri's star. note that text overlapping the star can not be read/is hard to read
Fig. 2 - arrival at abz, text is correctly rendered again
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Thats because darkspace hide the sun behind planets, its stupid, but it takes a bit of graphics programming to do it, and since the Engine needs a bit of an overhaul anyways, Faustus will probably work on upgrading the graphics when 1.483/4 are completed and working fine.
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