The Still New What Did You Last Do Thread

[timmyr0x0r]

Are you playing it through an emulator?

No, I'm playing the GOG version on my good ol Win7.

If it's flickering with other sprites it may be a vsync/buffering issue.

I tried messing around with Nvidia's settings for vsync and triple buffering (the game itself has no such settings, not even in the config file), but to no avail. I even set my monitor on 50hz to see if there would be any improvements, but nope, sadly.

[Rachael]

It could also be DirectDraw errors. DirectX 6 was the last version to officially support DirectDraw, every version since has had creeping breakage, especially with newer versions of Windows and newer display drivers.

I would search for DirectDraw emulators and wrappers. Note that every one of them is different, you may have to try several ones before one works right. As always, scan for viruses and beware of dubious sites.

This one seems to have been picked out by the community, already.

[DoomRater]

Trying out Krita Desktop on Windows. Mmm tasty. My favorite previously pay tool, 3D rotation, is finally just available for free, forever. Not sure I need GIMP ever again!

[timmyr0x0r]

It could also be DirectDraw errors. DirectX 6 was the last version to officially support DirectDraw, every version since has had creeping breakage, especially with newer versions of Windows and newer display drivers.

I would search for DirectDraw emulators and wrappers. Note that every one of them is different, you may have to try several ones before one works right. As always, scan for viruses and beware of dubious sites.

This one seems to have been picked out by the community, already.

I tried several of them, including the one you found, but unfortunately none of them fixed the problem, if the game launched at all. It seems that most of the wrappers are supposed to be used for DirectX 6 or lower, while the game requires DirectX 9.

I'll download the latest DirectX 9 release (apparently there is no conflict with DX9 and the newer ones on Win7) and see if that changes anything.

EDIT: The DirectX 9 setup fails for me. Seems it's a conflict with NET Framework files and is unavoidable without a clean Windows 7 reinstall.

EDIT 2: Found a way to install DirectX 9 anyways (deactivate your anti-virus software for the setup), but, alas, still didn't change anything. As the 2D spell effects work well as is, I'm beginning to wonder if that bug can really be fixed at all.

[FuzzballFox]

So this happened-
It's 7am...I should get to bed. Goodnight everybody~ ...or is that good morning? Who knows!

[Rachael]

Always thought you were female anyways. <3 You have my full support.

If you ever need to talk to someone you can always drop me a PM on this forum ... even as crazy as it can get sometimes.

[Captain J]

Always thought you were female anyways.

I remember i saw his face on the selfie thread, and yeah. He is handsome male. But i'm not going to post the link, though. Because privacy.

[Rachael]

I have my reasons for thinking that way, despite the selfie thread. I am quite aware of that, actually.

[Ixnatifual]

It's the sissy way he types, isn't it?

[FuzzballFox]

uh... wha?

[Ghastly]

uh... wha?

I'm 99% sure that was meant as a light-hearted joke.

Spent the last few hours playing around with graphics settings and running through the various areas in the game getting screenshots again. They look a lot better.

[Ixnatifual]

uh... wha?

I'm 99% sure that was meant as a light-hearted joke.

Yes

[FuzzballFox]

Mmm oki- was kind of a headtilt moment I guess..
Thinking more of Captain J's post really

[Rachael]

Some people just don't understand. Captain J seems to be a pretty reasonable guy but I don't think he fully understands what all of it entails.

[Captain J]

Nothing personal, believe me. I just reminded that fuzzball is actually male, by looking at his selfie face at the selfie thread from long ago, after Eruanna realized that.

And i didn't posted nor mentioned the selfie of his further more because of privacy, to keep his identity safe... What i purely don't understand is Ixnatifual's joke. That's it. But i apologize if you found my post awkward to look at.