Castle Paradox

KainMinter · ***~*** Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 155 Location: Austin

I just bought a new computer. After puting the OHR on it, i was unpleasantly suprised to find that all the graphics were horribly garbled. There are bars every 3 to 5 pixels that go all the way down the screen with disfigured colors, and there are bars inbetween those bars where it all looks correct like it should.

The computer runs on XP. Anyone else had this problem before? Anyone have a solution for me? Oookay...

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Flamer · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 11:26 pm Post subject:

your RPG file was either corrupted during transfer or when you're importing you have an odd numbered amount of pixels as the height or width of the image.

corrupt RPG files may not be fixable.

but the odd numbered amount of pixels as the height or width of the image can be fixed, just don't make any of the images have an odd numbered height or width.
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KainMinter · ***~*** Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 155 Location: Austin

I've had that happen too, but this time its different. All of the graphics within the editor, game.exe, and even mid2bam are effected as well.

I almost want to say it might be a monitor setting thinG...?

Have you ever played with like ZSNES's (SNES emulator) other video modes and came out with some barely recognizeable stuff on your screen? Its something like that.

Flamer · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:30 pm Post subject:

ah, i see...
for that problem, you'll need to re-install your graphics drivers and see if there are anything that could affect your display in that way.

is this only happening with the OHR in general, or is it happening with other DOS platformed games as well?
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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 12:07 pm Post subject: scrambled pixels

I have seen this problem in two other situations. One, on my ancient 486 computer with a super-slow ISA video card, it would do that all the time. Second, when running the OHRRPGCE in DOSEMU on Linux it does that.

It means a video card problem. I can't tell you whether or not it can be fixed with driver updates, but that is definitely worth trying.

If you cannot get driver updates, or if you do and it doesn't help, try running the OHR in DOSBOX and see who that works for you. http://dosbox.sf.net/

RPGCreations · **E Pluribus Unum** Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 345

Sounds like the video card doesn't like MODE-X graphics.

I've actually run into a computer that did this as well, it was a ancient prototype card one of my relatives tested for a company, I forget who.
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Shaede · **Tuck in your shirt.** Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 107

The computer is one of those new Sony VIAO thingies where the monitor and PC are combined and less then the size of a normal monitor. Any drivers would have to be compatible with that specific monitor, as its kinda part of the PC. Hopefully theres one out there that'll work.

Thanks James. Happy

KainMinter · ***~*** Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 155 Location: Austin

Whoa! Thanks james! It actually shows up in dos box! ^^ The speed makes it impossible to work with... but the fact that it showed up at all was very awsome! I appreciate the advice.

I keep a look out for a driver update. Thanks!

MultiColoredWizard · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 1:50 pm Post subject:

I suggest freeing up some RAM and wishing you had a like, 1 ghz processor. It's slow without something fast.

Shaede · **Tuck in your shirt.** Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 107

It Has:
2.80 GHz Pentium
512 MB RAM
120 GB Hard Drive

Aethereal · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 6:09 pm Post subject:

That's rather odd, because I ran Dosbox on a 1.6Ghz Pentium 4 with 512MB RAM and it ran pretty quickly. Perhaps the fact that he's running Windows XP has something to do with the slowness (I ran Windows 2000).
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LeRoy_Leo · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 6:27 pm Post subject:

I think Windows Murderred my DosBox... Is that why I can't play the Game.exe? I know, I know. This thread is for KainMaster, but since you trailed to the matter...

PS: I am not that sure I like XP anymore...
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TMC · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 2:01 am Post subject:

I have only an old 1.5GHz P4 with 256mb, and dosbox does run slowly on it under XP.
However, this is actually the first time I've noticed any sort of slowness in an emulator under XP. I don't see anyone having many speed problems with XP if you're on a faster computer.
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The Drizzle · **Who is the Drizzle?** Joined: 12 Nov 2003 Posts: 432

Same with me, I'm running a P4 on XP and dosbox is ungodly slow. When I try to change the palette to take a screenshot in custom.exe, it takes about two seconds before i get any response. I've tried ctrl+f12 and ctrl+f8 many times to speed it up, but it's just plain slow on xp.

Speaking of screenshots, does anyone know of a screen capturing program that actually works with custom.exe? I downloaded about 4 from download.com and none of them actually worked. Some would capture the desktop, others would be completely black, and some would capture nothing at all. Can anyone give me a link to a working screen capturing program?

Fenrir-Lunaris · **WUT** Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 1747

Screenshots of Custom in XP? I think this has been answered before. Many times. Repeatedly.

James, could you add that they can't be taken in XP to the faq?