Bug? Error? Purposefully?

gopa4 · Post by **gopa4** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:53 am

I've recently encountered an unusual error with the new version of BSF, on the opening combat screen the lasers and weapons fired cause the whole screen to go white. I've restarted thinking that may help, but nothing. That problem has fixed its self out, how idk. But a new one has arrisen, the frame rate won't go over around 8.

duestchland1 · Post by **duestchland1** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 1:07 am

well the blanking out of your screen is a bit unusual, though I can provide an explanation for your low frame rates.
Your computer sucks

SHAD0Wdump · Post by **SHAD0Wdump** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 1:12 am

For the frame rate,I've found the major culprit is surfaces,if you turn them off frame rate will flare back up,unfortunately you won't be able to see some weapon effects.(such as tesla lightning

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gopa4 · Post by **gopa4** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:35 am

Ok I'll try that, but a 2 section ship with one weapon bringing the frame rate down so much? I don't think so. I was able to run several 40+ piece ships before and it wouldn't drop at all. When they began firing than yah it would go down to around 28 or so.

Post by **Kaelis** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:43 am

Its a bug with surfaces. Turning them off should indeed help.

Skull13 · Post by **Skull13** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:36 am

Or turn on the Nvidia control panel preview. That clears it up for me, for some reason. You can keep surfaces on afterwards.

gopa4 · Post by **gopa4** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:46 am

Turning off surfaces did it for me, even got rid of the weird spreading laser plasma thing that reappeared.

warhammer651 · Post by **warhammer651** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:30 am

Skull13 wrote:Or turn on the Nvidia control panel preview. That clears it up for me, for some reason. You can keep surfaces on afterwards.

wait, do what now?

Post by **th15** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 9:28 am

Typically this problem happens with nVidia graphics cards. For some reason, bringing up the nVidia graphics options menu with the video preview resets the way Battleships Forever handles surfaces to the correct method.

To get to the preview, right-click on desktop > nvidia control panel > adjust image settings with preview.

M123 · Post by **M123** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 5:04 pm

th15 wrote:Typically this problem happens with nVidia graphics cards.

It depends on the driver version you have installed. The version I have installed on my older PC, version 178.24, does not cause the error. Every version over 180.xx that I have used has caused black areas to appear on sprites which should be transparent. The problem also seems to affect another game, Icewind Dale 2. EDIT: Actually, it affects all Infinity Engine games (Baldurs Gate series, Planescape: Torment, etc.).

Scytheron · Post by **Scytheron** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:54 pm

For some odd reason, I can't seem to make it go full screen... It's really odd to me, and kind of annoying because I always play everything full screen, and it only shows the start bar when it's not...

ah well... any suggestions? I'm running an HP Mini 1035, with XP.

~Levi

VNilla · Post by **VNilla** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:43 am

Look under the Options menu in the game and see if "Fullscreen" is set to "Off."

M123 · Post by **M123** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:36 pm

@Scytheron: If that's a netbook, then your screen probably doesn't support 1024x768. (BSF's only supported resolution)