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Endy
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Weird issue

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Hey all.

First, I want to thank the dev team. Second, I have a weird issue. On my IBM Thinkpad T42, I'm running Windows XP(SP2). WZ2100 works fine as of 2.2.4, as a game. But the problem is some of the graphics. The logo on the main menu (i.e. Image), and the icons in the blue box in the lower left corner, sort of...come and go. Now, the places to click in said blue box work just fine, I can click Manufacture, Research, Build, Design, Intel, Commanders, and whatever you call that big button in the center. With some trial and error (and reading Tool tips), I pieced out what buttons I need in the various unit right-click menus. So the game works great, and it runs decently.

This all happens in English, and most other languages.

In German, they all work fine (I found this through extensive and continued trial-and-error).

Why would this happen? And is there anything I can do to "fix" it? And to head people off at the pass - no. I cannot read German.
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i guess first port of call would be the usual, try new graphics driver, download a fresh copy (incase a few bytes went wrong) and check for your error reports and upload them.

pretty lame advice i know at this point, but better than no reply ;)
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GiGaBaNE wrote:i guess first port of call would be the usual, try new graphics driver, download a fresh copy (incase a few bytes went wrong) and check for your error reports and upload them.

pretty lame advice i know at this point, but better than no reply ;)
What he said. :)

The issue is with the video graphics drivers.

I have no idea why selecting German would do anything, must be a fluke. :-S
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I just want to put up an update to my thread, to explain the bug. Since the menu alone encompasses everything I have a problem with:

Menu: Image
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Endy wrote:I just want to put up an update to my thread, to explain the bug. Since the menu alone encompasses everything I have a problem with:
Menu:
About all we can say is try different video drivers.
You most likely will NOT get the latest drivers if you look at windows update, you should go direct to the maker of your chipset, and check if they have updated drivers.
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An ATI Radeon Mobile 9600 64MB? Interestingly this OLD card is still better than newest Intel crap, although I doubt that you'll find any driver updates :(

Maybe you could post an in-game screenshot, preferably with some rockets flying around? If it's an alpha-blending issue than smoke will be garbled too...

Ow, could you run a game using '--debug all' and then post a stderr.txt file here?
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Actually, I have the ATI Mobile Radeon 7500, which is still, yeah, better than some current stuff. Of course, this was never meant to be a gaming laptop, so every time it runs a game smoothly and well, I count my blessings. But, rockets and smoke all look right when I look at them in the campaign.

As far as the stderr: http://www.filedropper.com/stderr

The attachment button doesn't seem to work well for me.
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Endy wrote:As far as the stderr: http://www.filedropper.com/stderr
Hmm... Can't get the file... Do I need to login or smth? Maybe you could copy/paste the file contents and PM it to me?
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