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An addictive action puzzle game with single player and multiplayer capabilities (Internet or LAN).
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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Windows 8 - malfunction #121

Closed pphaneuf closed 10 years ago

pphaneuf commented 10 years ago

Hello

I am trying to run this program. (It worked fine on my windows xp). But now when i try to run this on my windows 8 it's not working. I have tried to compability settings which has proven useless.

The error message i get says: Generic DirectX error and the other one says: CyberLink Power2Go does not support the current screen resolution and DPI setting.

Is there a way for me to make it work?

pphaneuf commented 10 years ago

Hmm, that's a very strange error... "CyberLink Power2Go" is supposed to be some DVD burning software?!?

http://www.cyberlink.com/products/power2go-platinum/

I don't really see why this should interfere with your video, but from what I'm reading on the Internet, it's because this software has a fake video driver to allow capture of the screen while playing DirectX games?

You could try uninstalling CyberLink Power2Go from your computer, and see if it works after?

We're working on a new version of the game that uses completely different graphics code, and shouldn't have any problem (in particular, it will keep your current screen resolution and DPI settings, but uses the video card to stretch the image to full screen, instead of changing the screen resolution).

I'll close as "cannot reproduce" here, but if you have more information, feel free to add it to this bug report, thanks!

pphaneuf commented 10 years ago

Hello,

I run into the same issue (or almost) : What I do : Run the game (C:\Program Files (x86)\Quadra\quadra.exe) What I get : The screen goes black for like 1 sec., I can see briefly that the resolution changes, and the program exits with the error "Generic DirectX error".

I run Windows 8 64bits, with an Intel i7 and a Nvidia GeForce (with the appropriate drivers I think).

Note that I don't get the second error message about Cyberlink Power2Go, nor do I have any Cyberlink-related stuff.

pphaneuf commented 10 years ago

Same problem. Any solutions?