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Ghost of GPL in N3?

2 posts by 1 person · 27 Sep 1999 - 27 Sep 1999

Larry 27 Sep 1999#495664
Do you have triple-buffering enabled? I've seen this cause problems in menu systems before. -Larry
Larry 27 Sep 1999#495665
It does it to SCGT as well. -Larry
Quoted text (18 lines)> Thanks, James! That did the trick. I wonder why tripple beffering does > that to N3 and nothing else. Oh well, at least I can see what I'm doing > now. DirectX7 is fine. > Thanks again, > Rob > > >Hey gang, > > >I'm getting a really weird video glitch in the interface menus of N3. > When > > >I move the mouse around the screen, the previous screen flickers up on
to > > >the present one. The faster I move the mouse, the faster the flickering. > I > > >also have the mouse cursor drawn all over the screen as I move the > mouse. > > >Once I get into the car, everything is fine. It began to do this after I > > >installed DirectX7. I re-installed DX7 and N3 to no avail. I have the > > >latest drivers for everything and none of my other games have had a > problem > > >with DX7. I was wondering if anyone else had seen this, but I've seen no > > >mention of it here. I have a PII 350 128MB VooDoo3 2000 SBlive > > >Intellepoint Mouse, etc... It's kind of like what would happen to alot
Quoted text (16 lines)> of > > >people when GPL first came out and the interface menus would lock > machines > > >up. > > Turn OFF triple buffering in your Display Properties for 3Dfx > > >Any thoughts would be appreciated!! > > >Rob > > - James Wohlever > > Techware Motorsports > > http://techware.4mg.com/

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