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Geek Culture / Does this work for you? 3mb, please post specs

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Drew Cameron
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Posted: 4th Mar 2005 21:18 Edited at: 4th Mar 2005 21:18
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I've been testing my Dumbo and Cool game on 4 different machines - on 2 of these systems, the game simply did not load ... the screen went black and then nothing happened.

I'm trying to figure out what's causing this problem.

URL: http://www.drewsgames.com/dac1v65.rar
SIZE: 3mb
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I would greatly appreciate if some users could try this demo out, see what happens and post their specs... maybe I can join some dots and see if it's related to RAM or whatever.

Sincere thanks in advance, I know 3mb is a big file.

Drew

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Posted: 4th Mar 2005 23:45 Edited at: 4th Mar 2005 23:55
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Works on my GeForce4MX (64Mb) 512Mb Dell Machine. Latest video drives, Windows XP Profession with SP2

Looking very nice by the way - but you dont die when you fall in the water.

I'm going to see what happens on my 2000 machine now (that has a very poor internal graphics card).
Ah! Cant test it on that, as your using 32-bit graphics mode...

It could be the shaders that the program uses that causes the problem. Did you do this in DarkSDK ?

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Posted: 5th Mar 2005 03:15
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Game loaded what I assume to be fine. Without a point of reference it is hard to say if it was running as it was suppose to be.

Seemed alright though. System specifications are below my post.

System: Windows XP CPU: AMD Athlon 2600+ RAM: 512MB Video: GeForce FX 5200 Audio: C-Media 9739 DirectX: Version 9.0c
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Posted: 8th Mar 2005 03:57
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@ Squidy: Program does not use shaders... twas done in DBPRO.

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005 04:29
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could you maybe put it in a different format? zip? I can't open .rar archives. otherwise I'd help

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005 04:38
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There are some freeware zip programs that can handle .rar.
Just search.

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005 05:06
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Quote: " Program does not use shaders..."

So whats FX code doing in the executable then ?

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005 21:58 Edited at: 9th Mar 2005 00:45
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I'm not lying, does not shaders. I don't even know how to use shaders.

btw - Why were you looking in my executable?

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005 22:34
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Hi! I've tried it on two machines:
1 - AMD Athlon 64 3200+/1Gb Ram/geForce 5900xt
everything ok
2 - AMD Sempron 2400+/256Mb ram/Shared Video(64Mb) on Motherboard ASRock S41GX
loads ok, 3d game ok, 2d info all messed up (look at the image)
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Posted: 8th Mar 2005 23:41
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works great on my windows xp sp1 2002 : 512 ram : intel p4 3.2 ghz

great work btw

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Posted: 9th Mar 2005 00:47
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Right - will look into that bug for you Alex Riva I have a good idea what it could be though...

Any more? This really is appreciated, as if I want to do this as a commercial project, it obviously needs to be stable

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Posted: 9th Mar 2005 01:31 Edited at: 9th Mar 2005 01:34
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Quote: "btw - Why were you looking in my executable?"

Because shaders are the prime source of problems... First thing I thought of was shaders...

It could be being pulled in from one of the DBPro DLL's, which makes me think the shader system could still be being initialised.

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Anyway to "turn that off"?

Thanks so far - more needed!

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Posted: 9th Mar 2005 19:26 Edited at: 10th Mar 2005 05:47
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It works fine on my AMD 3000 XP machine...

Quote: "Anyway to "turn that off"?"

I dont know...

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Thanks anyway - I think the problem could be related to laptops.

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Laptops with crap cards I've got some ATI Mobility card wid 64 megs of ram (on the card, not the top ) and it runs fine a little slow at times I guess

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