Glitch in ToMI
I downloaded the 1st Chapter in Tales of Monkey Island, and it seemed to work ok until I picked up the Voodoo Ingredient list which just comes up as a big black spot on the screen. And then when I go to the inventory, it's all black, but I can tell something is there because when I run the cursor over it, the X turns green. Is there any way to fix this?
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Below is what you can do to give us more information.
Start dxdiag:
Windows XP: Go to your start menu and click on run. Type in "dxdiag" and hit enter
Windows Vista: Press the windows key on your keyboard or click on the start menu. Type in "dxdiag" and hit enter.
Now click on the button that says "save all information".
It will prompt you to save a file. Save it where you can find it.
Now you have two options to make it accessible for us. Pick the one that works best for you:
It is as i feared. Your Graphics card only supports DirectX 7 and therefore does not fulfill ToMI's minimum requirements. It needs to support DirectX 8.1.
Your cheapest option to get it running on your computer is buying a new graphics card.
Description: SB Live! Wave Device
Driver Name: emu10k1m.sys
Driver Version: 5.12.0001.3300 (English)
Date and Size: 8/17/2001 02:19:26, 283904 bytes
That's the second oldest driver I've ever seen.
http://www.gpureview.com/geforce4-ti4800se-card-139.html
I've attached the output of dxdiag. Can you figure out my issue, will I have to upgrade my hardware?
I fear it's one of those cards that don't work properly although they should support DirectX 8.1. You can see more examples here.
What kind of graphics card slot do you have?
I think it's AGP, how could I check it?
Yes, PCI or AGP. Also there are different AGP Versions.
Your Mainboard Manual would be the best source of information.
In case you don't know the manufacturer and model we can try to identify your Mainboard this way:
Identifying your mainboard:
Download and install the latest version of cpu-z.
Start it and open the mainboard tab like this:
Write a message containing
Motherboard
Manufacturer:
Model:
Chipset:
BIOS
Brand:
Version:
Date:
Manufacturer: (CPU-Z left this empty, but I'm pretty sure it's Soyo)
Model: VT8367-8233A
Chipset: VIA KT266/333 Rev. 00
Southbridge: VIA VT8233A
LPCIO: ITE IT8705
BIOS
Brand: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
Version: 6.00 PG
Date: 01/24/2003
Also, under Graphic Interface:
Version: AGP version 3.0
Transfer rate: 4x
Max supported: 4x
Site Band: enabled
Thank you.
Sadly I don't know how reliable that information is. The only safe way would be to get someone to look at your hardware and pick a suitable graphics card.
I don't feel comfortable with giving you advice on something that might break your system.
It is however likely that a modern AGP 8x card will work. In some cases you will need to have a 6 pin power connector for it too.
But I'm curious: how come an adventure game requires so much graphics power? Does using advanced DirectX stuff significantly reduce the cost of development? Does it create incredible FX that would be too hard to do otherwise?
That's the another option.
It doesn't require much graphics power. If it is turned down to quality 1 even poor cards can handle it. There are always exceptions such as some low cost and integrated graphics solutions.
Higher graphics levels allow better looking graphics for those with more powerful graphics cards.
I don't know much about DirectX developing but I think DirectX 8 brings desirable programming features. Look at DirectX 8 in the Direct3D History.
A programming API that is easier to use is a very good reason, besides the nice new features, from a developers point of view.
Further DirectX 8.1 is ~7 years old itself. I think that's a good compromise between supporting old hardware and development requirements.
You're right, that's not much graphics power... I must remember we're past the VGA era