Bumping!

Can you email the program creator and ask him about previous version and/or versions that support DX7?

i emailed him. we shall see if he responds. there is an option just above "present changer" called "DX 7 Support" that can be check marked but that doesn't seem to do anything.....

Very interesting.

Just grabbed the latest BETA with experimental DirectX 7 support... I'm experiencing right now.

I called sick with the flu to work today, so I'll be home spending more hours on this problem today, I'll play around with this little proggie.

IIRC JF18 is a DX8 game. Some time ago I had a driver problem that caused all DX8 games to reboot... JF18 was among them.

JF-18 is not DX8. The DirectX requirement is DirectX 6.1 or later (DirectX 7 or later recommended). That means it is a DX7 game that will work with DX6.1 (I assume with reduced image quality). Also, it works just fine on DX7 video cards.

...and its a 16bit game... its NOT render in 24/32bits.

The banding problem is not due to the color depth, its due to the card, not being able to render some texture effect (alpha blending, dithering) correctly in 16bit.

Forcing a 16bit game into 32 bit wont work because the graphic engine and textures don't support that kind of rendering.

The example of Project 1 above works because the game support 32bit rendering internally and textures are 16-bit BMPs as opposed to 8-bit palletized PCX for F-18...

The more I play with this program, the more I'm sure that it doesn't trap anything from F18.exe...

I suspect that as well, but do you know for sure? As I said in another thread, this is something that someone with a non-banding card can check out by using refresh rate overrides.

Check this:

http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/boards/bbs/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=32;t=009305;p=2#000051

To my best understanding the textures format is not relevant at all, the banding is a result of hardware computation done on a 16bit buffer.
About the Project 1 example: the game software engine was set to 16bit mode and run in 16bit, the computations on the hardware were done on a 32bit buffer.

Does this program have any effect JFA-18 on your machine?