#4263752 - 05/25/16 01:17 PM
Re: Windows 10. Build 10162
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OK a history lesson When EAW was being written hard drives were tiny and space was at a premium. So Microprose came up with ways to save space, including using selection screens such as "Main2.pic" being their own form of compressed 8-bit PCX files. Routines in the exe decompress and display them. However, the exe also has a routine that checks that the user's graphics card and driver can handle 8-bit graphics. If it cannot the exe CTDs with the 7217 error message. This became a real problem for EAW users back in 2000 because when they updated their systems the many of the newer cards only supported 16-bit graphics. Will Gee helped us with a work-around that kicked in and tricked the exe into thinking that the card supported 8-bit, and displayed the screens, even though a slight downside was stuttery mouse movements. His code was added to the original 1.28 release, and has been included in all subsequent versions. The d3d windower also circumvents 7217 somehow. Windows 10 appears to have some routines of the same ilk. What I suspect is happening now is that some of the newer cards only support 64 bit graphics and Will's work-around was for cards that supported 16-bit and not 8-bit.
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#4264024 - 05/26/16 12:49 AM
Re: Windows 10. Build 10162
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That's so weird. The clipping of the screen, anyone, would that be a refresh problem? Are you using a multiple desktop?, or is the desktop size in your video card settings something other than 'no scaling'?
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#4264144 - 05/26/16 02:04 PM
Re: Windows 10. Build 10162
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Given the problems that you have had with XP that is far from the case LOL. With the security flaws I would not touch it with a bargepole, unless I had no other choice. If you analyse Tulaig's problem it is straightforward. he has a 3840x2160 pixel monitor, twice the size of the one I use at home. So he did something to make his text more readable. We do not know why, at this stage, but it affected the running of EAW. Undoing it fixed the problem, and it may not be a problem specific to Win 10. My desktop PC is running EAW in Win10 very well indeed.
Fly EAW online at GameRanger: GameRanger SiteFaceBook Pages UAW 160 downloadsEAW ClubMark Twain: I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.I am now of an age at which I no longer need to suffer fools gladly
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Exodus
by RedOneAlpha. 04/18/24 05:46 PM
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