13 January 2011, 17:41 | #1 |
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Earth 2140 intro problem
Earlier I've had this game working nicely, but now a strange problem has risen that doesn't harm the actual gameplay but is rather strange.
The game intro video is messed up: firstly it opens a 1024x768 screen and the video is shown doubled, one little video to left and one on the right side of screen. The bottom screen is a mix of gray, red whatever colors. I think it should open a smaller window to display the intro video. Any idea why it's opening a 1024x768 screen? |
14 January 2011, 10:21 | #2 |
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No guesses, tips, advice, anything?? C'mon people let's solve this thing
Today I'm gonna remake all P96 screenmodes from scratch to see if that corrects the situation. |
14 January 2011, 11:00 | #3 |
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What about using screen promoter like newmode and force a different mode?
Maybe 640x480 (or even 320x240) is better for the Video? However I had similar issues with Genetic Species, I had to watch the Video in a Native screen (PAL High Res I think) for correct video playback and then I swap to RTG for the game Steve. |
14 January 2011, 12:09 | #4 |
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Yes, some RTG games did have videos that ran on the native chips (Trapped at least). A screen promoter (I'd try ModePro) would give some info what screenmode the game wants to output and then it could be changed.
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14 January 2011, 13:28 | #5 |
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Are we talking about running on a real Amiga or WinUAE?
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14 January 2011, 13:51 | #7 |
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iirc the resolution for the videos can be set in the startup file.
I'm not at home to see for myself, sorry if it's not |
15 January 2011, 10:10 | #8 |
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Yes this is on my real miggy don't even have WinAUE set on me PeeCee
Only RTG-modes are used in this game, no AGA. I remade all my resolutions in PicassoMode yesterday, result: now the game skips the intro video, it doesn't play even if I click in the game menu "intro". Btw. I can't find a startup-file for the screenmodes is there even one About promoting the screen: the game is launched with "earth2140.exe" along with the intro and if I should promote it to 320x240 (which I believe is the intro resolution) the whole game is then promoted. I'll try it but I think it's a no go. Genetic Species works well here the intro is displayed in AGA and game is played in RTG I will install the damn game again and see if it corrects this situation... |
20 January 2011, 16:36 | #9 |
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SOLVED! Re-installation didn't make any difference, but silly me: the game intro needs a 16-BIT SCREENMODE (320x240 I think), I had only made 8-bit modes of the lower resolutions
Now added 16-bit depth in all other lower resolutions too. EDIT: checked what screen res the intro opens: it's a 640x480 one but I ALREADY HAD a 16-bit screenmode for it in PicassoMode. Strangely it works now I've made sure all resolutions have 16-bit available, even if it doesn't use any other than 640x480. Explanation??? EDIT 2: checked again and...I DIDN'T HAVE 640x480 16-bit screenmode set, that was the problem Last edited by Bamiga2002; 20 January 2011 at 17:03. |
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