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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA14400 for <executor@nacm.com>; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 18:08:40 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id TAA05969; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 19:08:37 -0600 Received: from gwar.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0sitLO-000YbnC; Wed, 16 Aug 95 19:02 MDT Received: by gwar.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0sitLO-000GOkC; Wed, 16 Aug 95 19:02 MDT Message-Id: <m0sitLO-000GOkC@gwar.ardi.com> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 19:02 MDT From: mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter) To: Jared Roberts <jared@cyberspace.com> Subject: Re: Problems with Marathon In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950816170541.14385A-100000@case> References: <m0simu7-000GOkC@gwar.ardi.com> <Pine.SUN.3.91.950816170541.14385A-100000@case> cc: executor@nacm.com Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "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