It works perfectly on my computer, I have Windows 7.
It works perfectly on my computer, I have Windows 7.
Thanks for checking this out,.but the issue is running it in Windows XP in HWA mode. Objects in layer 2 and 4 disappear! I thought is was just my XP machine,.but after testing it on 3 other XP machines,.they all do the same thing. In standard mode XP,.it runs fine. But as soon as I switch it to HWA on XP disappearing objects in layer 2 and 6. The mountains disappear in layer 2 and the snow disappears in layer 4.Originally Posted by Storsorgen
Curosity -- if you put the objects on others layers do they then show up?
Is it the objects or the layers which are actually disappearing?
Jeff, I found out that it is the 2 background objects (The Mountains and the Snowy hills) that is the cause. I don't know why, but it was those two objects. I would guess they are corrupt? Even when I put them into a different layer (as you said) they disappear! I would really like to know why just these two objects are doing this. I drew them in the Picture editor just like always. I drew another and put it into the layer and it doesn't disappear. Weird..! So,.I'm going to leave this game in Standard mode because I can't duplicate these objects as they are used and placed in a specific spot that other objects are spaced around them to look right. It would be to much work to do. I even tried to export the objects and save them as different names and instead of saving them as PNG's I saved them as Jpegs and they still disappear after importing them in the game as a new object.
Do you think the rest of the Clickteam could spend a little time on this and see what the real issue is. Now, this is just running the game in HWA on XP machines. I would really like to know what is wrong with these 2 objects,.so this can't happen again.
I appreciate you staying on board with this.
Yves mentioned smaller texture sizes on older video cards (like you might have on Windows XP machines)
So maybe cutting it up into smaller sized graphics would help it.
I will try that now and get back to you. You mean like cutting the graphic into smaller sections? Both are 2000 wide,.so you are saying like into 4 pieces? Maybe like 500 wide and then put them back together. Right?
Holy mackerel,..Yves was right. I cut the graphic in half and it works! So this is a bug in MMF? I'm so glad that I was persistent with this and we figured it out. Thank you very much for spending the time to find out what the issue really was. You made my day big man! The game works on both W7 and XP in HWA now. Awesome!!
I notice now this is covered in the help file inside MMF.
There might be some other tips for getting the most out of the HWA runtime if you cruise thru and take a read.
Some of the older graphics cards on XP systems can only display a max size of 1024 for images. Nothing to do with MMF.
Stephen,.I didn't know that,.thank you! Now that I do,.I will be sure to come under that measurement for my graphics from now on in.
Jeff, thank you for that. It's not often that I read the help files. Maybe a good time to start!..LOL. At least this is behind me and I can run the game in HWA and use the shaders. Thanks for the support. It was a big help and was driving me nuts.
Thanks again guys!
John
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