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Leonhart · Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 383 Location: Philippines

I'm not your certified computer geek, so please bear with me here....

I'm currently experiencing a problem regarding custom, game, and hspeak...... Whenever I exit from these programs, on rare occasions, the screen goes black and, on big bright letters, the words "OUT OF RANGE" will appear.

Is this a problem on OHRRPGCE? Is it just my computer? Or am I just a dumb ass who knows nothing?

Any help will be appreciated. Tnx!
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Mike Caron · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:26 am Post subject:

How big are the "big bright letters"? Custom and Game don't do anything like that, and I suspect that it'd be a waste of time to get hspeak to do that, so it's probably something else on your computer.
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Leonhart · Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 383 Location: Philippines

Well, a red box appears and then in the middle of the box are the words OUT OF RANGE, in big, white letters.....

Shoot, now I can't make games anymore without restarting my computer once in a while..
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phyrfox · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:04 pm Post subject:

Can you snap the screenshot, and post it? I'd like to look at it. As far as I know, "Out of Range" is a standard QBasic error: most likely it's a result of the OS mucking something up internally in it's personal environment or something. The red box is something unique, though... But I've also gotten such things as "Out of Bounds", "Invalid Line", so on and so forth, but they were always a black box with the letters in the upper-left, with the inclusive words "Press any key to return to system..." prompt.

Could be a crash mid-way through results in the screen being red and the "cursor" being positioned coincidently at the right spacing to place it in the center or the screen. Without seeing the screen, though, this is just all wild speculation... Either an elusive error in the code, or more likely an error within your environment.

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Leonhart · Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 383 Location: Philippines

Thanks to the wonderful MSpaint, I managed to make that darn error message......

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Mike Caron · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 5:17 am Post subject:

Make, or take? Well, I suppose if it's fullscreen...

Anyway, I can honestly say that it's not the fault of the OHR or any of it's related programs. Try turning off your anti-virus, see if that helps. Aside from that, I'm stumped.
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Jjkaybomb · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:58 am Post subject: Computer?

What brand of computer do you use? That might be the problem.
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phyrfox · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 6:33 pm Post subject:

Iblis · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject:

I've seen a similar error on my computer. I was trying to set the resolution ridiculously high just to see what it would look like. When I tried a few of the highest ones the "OUT OF RANGE" screen came up and I went back to my normal resolution. So it's probably a computer error or a windows error, not an OHR error.
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Uncommon · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:

If that's right, Iblis, then it's probably a monitor problem. Monitor's tend to have different message backgrounds then normal computer error messages would be.

Leonhart · Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 383 Location: Philippines

I tried changing resolutions, too, but that error message still appears.
This sometimes happens when I ALT+TAB my way out of OHR. Then, it will get stuck there forever.
Maybe it is a monitor problem.........
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Gizmog1 · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:44 pm Post subject:

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it did turn out to be a monitor error message. My monitor pops up errors in a box just like that sometimes. I've never had problems with the ohr, but it does pop a bit, and sometimes shows some gobbledygook characters for a second or so while it works.

TMC · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:31 am Post subject:

I've had something similiar. I forget what caused it or how I fixed it, though.
But... how can you get a screenshot of it if its an error display on the monitor? Wouldn't it be the OS giving this message?

This could never have been an OHR problem because HSpeak is coded in Euphoria.
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Mike Caron · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:22 am Post subject:

You can't get a screenshot of a monitor error message, simply because it doesn't go through the video card.

Anyway, it sounds like the monitor doesn't always like the OHR's screen resolution.

*shrugs* The only thing I can suggest is to get a new monitor. Neutral

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Leonhart · Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 383 Location: Philippines

Damn........

Get a new one? Are you sure?
If that's the only way, then I'm doomed.
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