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Re: Problems with Marathon
>>>>> "Jared" == Jared Roberts <jared@cyberspace.com> writes:
Jared> Looks like I wasn't detailed enough the first time... Yes,
Jared> I'm on 1.99o, for both DOS and Linux, and using UNIVBE for
Jared> DOS (I also tried without). Before I start Marathon (The
Jared> 4L demo or something -- I just downloaded it from
Jared> ftp.bungie.com), the prefs panel says 256 colors, and I've
Jared> even tried starting executor with "-bpp 8", but Marathon
Jared> still changes to 1bpp. It's my assumtion that this is a
Jared> Screen Mode Detection routine gone amuck or some such... My
Jared> graphics card is the ATI mach64 card (PCI), any ideas?
Each *application* has preferences associated with it. If Marathon's
preferences say "use 1 bit per pixel", Executor will switch to 1 bpp
every time you run Marathon, regardless of what bpp was being used
before you ran it. That's why saving the 256 color setting after
Marathon is already up is a good idea; that will assure that it starts
out in 8bpp from the beginning. I hope this helps. Good luck!
-Mat
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