What's causing this graphics corruption?
What's causing this graphics corruption?
Happens on both my netbook (intel gma) and an athlon xp with not-really wddm drivers, both windows 7. The gma on xp displays fine, but power options that I can't find screw with the framerate.
Re: What's causing this graphics corruption?
That happens when you run Windows 7 with DirectDraw enabled.
There are two solutions for this - kill explorer.exe (and run from cmd.exe) - or you can try vid_palettehack true to see if that fixes it. (Killing explorer.exe is not advisable unless you are very proficient from the command prompt and can otherwise operate it as your single shell)
There are two solutions for this - kill explorer.exe (and run from cmd.exe) - or you can try vid_palettehack true to see if that fixes it. (Killing explorer.exe is not advisable unless you are very proficient from the command prompt and can otherwise operate it as your single shell)
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Re: What's causing this graphics corruption?
Palette corruption was one of the reasons the D3D backend was initially written.
Re: What's causing this graphics corruption?
If I ignore this and run a timedemo, are the results reasonably reliable?Rachael wrote:That happens when you run Windows 7 with DirectDraw enabled.
There are two solutions for this - kill explorer.exe (and run from cmd.exe) - or you can try vid_palettehack true to see if that fixes it. (Killing explorer.exe is not advisable unless you are very proficient from the command prompt and can otherwise operate it as your single shell)
Re: What's causing this graphics corruption?
Yes. Palette corruption does not affect performance.
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Re: What's causing this graphics corruption?
No palette corruption here on win7 and ati integrated video, only with very ancient ZDoom versions which didn't update the palette.
Re: What's causing this graphics corruption?
Heh, I've been running 1.23 for timedemos because I needed something that would be compatible back to the 486 and windows 95 era. IIRC 2.8.1 only runs on win me and later.drfrag wrote:No palette corruption here on win7 and ati integrated video, only with very ancient ZDoom versions which didn't update the palette.
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Re: What's causing this graphics corruption?
ZDoom LE runs on win95 but it's slow on 486 and pentiums, ZDoom 1.23 was faster than 2.0 thanks to the ancient midas audio library.
Re: What's causing this graphics corruption?
PROTIP: Ctrl-Shift-Escape opens the task manager (even when explorer doesn't run), and on the first tab you have the "new task" button from which you can restart explorer. Just type explorer.exe as the name of the task you want to start. Done.Rachael wrote:(Killing explorer.exe is not advisable unless you are very proficient from the command prompt and can otherwise operate it as your single shell)
Re: What's causing this graphics corruption?
Reason I did not mention it is because not everyone is going to remember all that.Gez wrote:PROTIP: Ctrl-Shift-Escape opens the task manager (even when explorer doesn't run), and on the first tab you have the "new task" button from which you can restart explorer. Just type explorer.exe as the name of the task you want to start. Done.
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Re: What's causing this graphics corruption?
Or use Win+R to get to the Run Prompt quickly.
Re: What's causing this graphics corruption?
Win+R is run by explorer - so no that will not work.
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Re: What's causing this graphics corruption?
Huh. I did not know this. I've always had the task manager running if explorer is giving me issues. But thanks for the heads up anyways.
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Re: What's causing this graphics corruption?
Why are you testing an 18-year-old version of the engine against 20+-year-old hardware? And why are you asking the modern development team (which is very different to the team from back then) about it like there's some form of relevance to the current engine? And why has seemingly everyone still running a 386 with a math co-processor converged on this subforum recently?!? I'm honestly confused.invictius wrote:Heh, I've been running 1.23 for timedemos because I needed something that would be compatible back to the 486 and windows 95 era. IIRC 2.8.1 only runs on win me and later.drfrag wrote:No palette corruption here on win7 and ati integrated video, only with very ancient ZDoom versions which didn't update the palette.
Re: What's causing this graphics corruption?
I've been wondering the same thing, too. I think the best way to gradually weed this problem out is to just not respond.Kinsie wrote:And why has seemingly everyone still running a 386 with a math co-processor converged on this subforum recently?!? I'm honestly confused.
When you choose to tinker with old unsupported stuff, you're usually on your own and it's not worth the current dev team's time and effort to assist and entertain these kinds of things. The devs aren't getting paid to do this, after all...