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Old December 8th, 2007, 02:53 PM
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Hi, it's me again!
I am trying to get a friend interested in this game and got him to download the demo for Windows. However, when he is running the demo, the objects and colors in the game kinda get weird and the letters are non-readable. What's wrong? He downloaded the demo from Gamershell if that is of some help.
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Old December 8th, 2007, 03:20 PM
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Default Re: weird demo problem

if computer its not strong enough alt+tab could result in weird graphics
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Could also be if he doesn't have OpenGL drivers up to snuff for his graphics card.
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Have him update his video card drivers... I recall Windows Vista had some openGL issues which needed updates.
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well, he is using windows xp and I think that he has updated his video card drivers. But i'm not sure, have to ask him.
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A friend of mine used --noglext to get around the problem of having a no-so-good video card, you might want to try that if that option is available on Windows.
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