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Article #89644Re: D3 in WinXP problem
From: Wesley
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 01:50
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 01:50
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"Carl W" <me@home.com> wrote in message news:vnl4c25asja1ll4i6i65phili7jj0v6dma@4ax.com... >I have an Nvidia 6600GT video card and WinXP SP2. > I get to the menu screen but when I go to start the game, the screen > flickers in between the windows desktop and a blank screen, as if they > are duking it out to see who wins. Ultimate, the windows desktop > remains with the Descent3 minimized. When I click on that, the > flickering continues and windows desktop usually is the one that > remains. > > I have tried new video drivers but no change. I have changed from > OpenGL to D3D and no change. > > Anyone else have this problem? This is the retail D3 jewel pack which > I just bought and have updated the program already, including the no > CD patch. Without the no CD, the game will have the same issues just > doing the video clips. > > CW Exactly same. I have problem flicker with my Nvidia 6600GT video card and WinXP SP2 Sadly some older games have problem with XP SP2 and because Nvidia drivers big change to cause some big problem in older games...
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!statler.nntpserver.com!news.glorb.com!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Wesley" <Wesley@ishot.com.de> Newsgroups: alt.games.descent References: <vnl4c25asja1ll4i6i65phili7jj0v6dma@4ax.com> Subject: Re: D3 in WinXP problem Lines: 29 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: <4CAwg.9262$tE5.6733@news-server.bigpond.net.au> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 01:50:56 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.136.211.122 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1153619456 144.136.211.122 (Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:50:56 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:50:56 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit