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Rally Championship: weird screen results

5 posts by 4 people · 11 Aug 1997 - 22 Aug 1997

Overlor 11 Aug 1997#375209
Hi all, When i'm in the menu-system of Rally Championship, and i wait too long to choose an item, i get these weird screen results. At the start, there is a piece of movie running, and it stops to become the background. But it looks like garbage on my machine, and i don't think that's how they meant it. Furthermore, when i'm in de game itself, i have no problems whatsoever. (Aside from the fact that i keep slamming my car into a tree or another car) Also, when i'm in the menu to change my name and my country, the game bails out to DOS with an 'Exception Error'. Very strange. Can someone please help me with this? Many thanks in advance.
Dirtb 11 Aug 1997#375210
Quoted text (7 lines)>You are correct. It is supposed to freeze the video to become the menu >background. However, what you see are "tiles" of the freezed video and >none of the tiles line up to form a picture. >This happens to me, too. I have a STB Lightspeed video card with the >ET-6000 chip set. I don't know if the ET-6000 set is the problem, or the >fact that it has 2.25M of video memory. >Can't help with the fix. Mine does it, too.
I had some weird happenings with the demo, but the full version is fine. One of the things it did was rapidly flash the menu boxes on the setup screen. I have a Jaton 58p, which is also ET6000 based. Although I have 4 meg, I don't think its a video memory problem. I run it by restarting in MSDOS mode, not just shelling out. Are you guys running it under Win95? --
Doug Reichl 11 Aug 1997#375211
: When i'm in the menu-system of Rally Championship, and i wait too long to : choose an item, i get these weird screen results. : At the start, there is a piece of movie running, and it stops to become the : background. But it looks like garbage on my machine, and i don't think : that's how they meant it. You are correct. It is supposed to freeze the video to become the menu background. However, what you see are "tiles" of the freezed video and none of the tiles line up to form a picture. This happens to me, too. I have a STB Lightspeed video card with the ET-6000 chip set. I don't know if the ET-6000 set is the problem, or the fact that it has 2.25M of video memory. Can't help with the fix. Mine does it, too.
Doug Reichl 12 Aug 1997#375293
: I run it by restarting in MSDOS mode, not just shelling out. : Are you guys running it under Win95? No, I always use "Restart in MSDOS mode". I haven't even tried it under Win95 so I can't say if it has the same problem or not. All of the video freezes do the same thing. They just get scrambled. Doesn't bother me though, but if somebody has a fix I'll take it. ;)
> All of the video freezes do the same thing. They just get scrambled. > Doesn't bother me though, but if somebody has a fix I'll take it. ;) I have a ET6000 also and solved this problem by running UniVBE, er, SciTech Display Doctor. Its a VESA BIOS problem... doesn't bug me though. In fact the game might run slower (not too sure) with a VESA driver loaded. Mansfield

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