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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 8th Feb 2008 20:07
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this is one of my favorite games of all time.

despite of the age i have a strange graphics problem with this game. In the options menu, whenever i turn on hardware acceleration (make the game look much better) the game crashes. I tried fiddling with drivers turning acceleration on and off. But in think my 8800m GTX is just an overkill for this. I can play it without hardware acceleration but the shadows look crummy.

anyone by any chance knows a solution to this problem?

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 8th Feb 2008 20:10
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Ahhh, those were the days... I used to mod and map that game before I started with actual game design stuff. Fun... Sorry though. I'd just have to guess there's some sort of driver issue with the new cards... :\

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Benjamin
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Posted: 8th Feb 2008 20:22 Edited at: 8th Feb 2008 20:27
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A similar thing happens with me with Populous: The Beginning. If I switch to the desktop when running in hardware accelerated mode my PC crashes. Luckily it's such an ancient game I can play it in software mode just fine.

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Posted: 8th Feb 2008 22:14
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<Yay! Populous is great>


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 8th Feb 2008 22:16
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I, too, play Populous in software mode, because I get DB-esque weirdness on the edges of transparent objects in hardware mode.

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Agent Dink
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Quote: "DB-esque weirdness"


This is Direct X weirdness. Not DB. It's just some people are more clever at controlling the issue

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 8th Feb 2008 23:09
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"esque" - resembling.

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Agent Dink
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Fine, be that way

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 8th Feb 2008 23:23
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I shall.

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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 9th Feb 2008 04:26
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well hardware acceleration makes the game look better and not as pixely

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