Quick Question

[Stiffmyster]

yea when i use directdraw it looks like shit...and i tryed direct3D and that just leaves a black screen but i can hear the game so it works just cant see anything....and i tryed the other ones and they didnt help either...

[Jale]

Seems like a video driver problem. Reinstall your video driver and try again. If you are running an on-board video device, I think the solution is buying a new video card.

or

It's a not-well configured video driver.

[Stiffmyster]

how do i go about reinstallin it?

[hagbard]

You need to know your video card manufacturer and model, if possible, on Windows Device Manager for example: Press <Win> + <Pause> -> "Hardware" tab -> "Device Manager". It should appear above all devices listed there.

If you can't find it there, try this:

1) Start -> Execute -> type "cmd" (without the "", the same for the next times), <Enter>

2) Type "debug" , <Enter>

3) "dc000:00" , <Enter>

4) "d" , <Enter>

5) Repeat 4) until you can see some scrambled text like this on the right column:

-dc000:00

C000:0000  55 AA 78 EB 4B 37 34 30-30 E9 4C 19 77 CC 56 49   U.x.K7400.L.w.VI
C000:0010  44 45 4F 20 0D 00 00 00-DC 00 13 10 00 00 49 42   DEO ..........IB
C000:0020  4D 20 56 47 41 20 43 6F-6D 70 61 74 69 62 6C 65   M VGA Compatible
C000:0030  01 00 00 00 B0 11 FC 96-31 32 2F 32 33 2F 30 34   ........12/23/04
C000:0040  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
C000:0050  E9 70 DC 00 00 00 00 00-03 40 0F 7C 9C 80 C0 82   .p.......@.|....
C000:0060  EF FF FF 7F 10 00 00 80-22 00 A5 11 E9 B9 B6 E9   ........".......
C000:0070  C0 B6 50 4D 49 44 6C 00-6F 00 00 00 00 A0 00 B0   ..PMIDl.o.......
-d

C000:0080  00 B8 00 C0 00 33 56 1E-21 10 18 00 00 00 00 00   .....3V.!.......
C000:0090  00 00 00 00 C1 02 02 00-60 02 00 00 43 00 10 01   ........`...C...
C000:00A0  00 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF-FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF   ................
C000:00B0  FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF-FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF   ................
C000:00C0  FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF-FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF   ................
C000:00D0  FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF-FF FF FF FF 50 43 49 52   ............PCIR
C000:00E0  DE 10 F1 00 00 00 18 00-00 00 00 03 78 00 01 00   ............x...
C000:00F0  00 80 00 00 47 65 46 6F-72 63 65 20 36 36 30 30   ....GeForce 6600
-d

C000:0100  20 47 54 20 42 49 4F 53-0D 0A 00 00 00 00 0D 0A    GT BIOS........
C000:0110  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
C000:0120  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
C000:0130  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
C000:0140  00 00 00 00 00 56 65 72-73 69 6F 6E 20 35 2E 34   .....Version 5.4
C000:0150  33 2E 30 32 2E 34 36 2E-43 43 20 0D 0A 00 00 43   3.02.46.CC ....C
C000:0160  6F 70 79 72 69 67 68 74-20 28 43 29 20 31 39 39   opyright (C) 199
C000:0170  36 2D 32 30 30 34 20 4E-56 49 44 49 41 20 43 6F   6-2004 NVIDIA Co
-d

C000:0180  72 70 2E 0D 0A 00 00 00-BA 91 98 96 91 9A 9A 8D   rp..............
C000:0190  96 91 98 DF AD 9A 93 9A-9E 8C 9A DF D2 DF B1 90   ................
C000:01A0  8B DF B9 90 8D DF AF 8D-90 9B 8A 9C 8B 96 90 91   ................
C000:01B0  DF AA 8C 9A F2 F5 FF 00-01 6E 76 34 33 20 42 6F   .........nv43 Bo
C000:01C0  61 72 64 20 2D 20 70 32-31 38 68 31 20 20 00 00   ard - p218h1  ..
C000:01D0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 43 68 69 70   ............Chip
C000:01E0  20 52 65 76 20 20 20 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    Rev   .........
C000:01F0  FF B8 42 49 54 00 00 01-0C 06 10 47 32 01 04 00   ..BIT......G2...

As you can see I got a "GeForce 6600 GT" , it should work and tell your gfx card model.

Once you know that, go to the manufacturers official site, then download the appropiate drivers for you Operating System and gfx card. It should be easy as it's usually a step by step process.

[Saq]

I've found that if you use hq2x (Options>Filter>hq2x) the quality will improve alot.

it sharpens the look of the graphics. Nice

[Stiffmyster]

i dont get were i have to go to type all that stuff in...

[hagbard]

Again:

click Windows "Start" button, then click "Execute" and type "cmd". The rest is on my post above.

[Stiffmyster]

okay i dont have anything that says execute on my start menu

[montpics]

Again:

click Windows "Start" button, then click "Execute" and type "cmd". The rest is on my post above.

hagbard, don't you mean RUN instead of Execute?

[Stiffmyster]

o yea i got run