Anyone have B&W yet?

[ahartman]

Anyone picked up Black & White yet? I've got my copy being delivered tomorrow and wondered if there's anything I should look out for.

By the way, I've been away from the forums for a while but I'm still running my trusty G400!

Thanks in advance!

[Jon P. Inghram]

Installing right now...

[Jon P. Inghram]

Seems to be working great at max detail on my system...

G400MAX, PDesk 5.52

Celeron 533A @ 800
256 megs RAM
Asus CUBX mobo
SBLive!
Microsoft Windows 98 4.10.1998
DirectX 8.0a

[Manex]

I installed it this afternoon and I'm having several problems with the game. There are letters missing in some of the text that appears on screen and sometimes characters are not rendered even though their shadows are! Very strange happenings indeed.

My system is:

PIII-800E @ 1GHz
Abit Se6
512MB Micron RAM
Vanilla G400 DH
SBLive!
Windows 2000 Professional
DirectX 8.0a

Hope I can sort this out soon

Eric


[This message has been edited by Manex (edited 29 March 2001).]

[TiG]

Glad to see it runs ok on a g400 system, well apart from Manex's probs. At least I've got a week to sort any potential problems I may have when I actually get it. *sigh*

Software publishers commitment to the worldwide market never ceases to amaze me

Still could be worse. I could be one of the poor buggers that live in Guildford


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[Gurm]

Works on one of my configs, and not the other.

When I say "not", I mean the same problems as Manex - text is all messed up. Didn't notice the character rendering problem, but the text is all icky.

Quick workaround is to alt-tab out and back in - seems to fix the text at least temporarily.

I dunno why it messed up in the first place, doesn't happen on the other config. Time to figure out what's different, I guess...

*sigh*

- Gurm

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[az]

might it have to do with your windows font size properties? (i doubt that)

AZ

[NStriker]

I have issues with B&W, as well. Not only do I have that text problem, the game randomly freezes and my whole screen gets garbled with multicolored lines. I've seen that before, but not in a *long* time.
Also, when the game starts, I get 9 seperate little half drawn images of both the Lionhead and then the B&W logo. Really weird.
Oh, and I have to keep volumetric lighting off for the temple, or else I can't read any of the text because it's covered with some weird texture.
I wonder if these problems aren't all related to the Win2K drivers, though.

NStriker
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Specs:
Dual P3 500s
Supermicro P6DGE mobo
192 megs PC100
G400 MAX
Acoustic Edge soundcard
Promise RAID controller
dual 15 giggers in RAID 0
No shared IRQs.
All the most recent drivers.

[R0M]

Hey Guys,
It seems all the people who are having problems are under Win2k, i have been personally testing the game since it was in early beta on Win98 and never had any problems. I will check tomorrow and let you know if Win2k is the culprit, stay tuned...

Regards,

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[Manex]

Thanks ROM! Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can't even enjoy the game with the current state of things... Sometimes Alt-Tabbing out and back into the game will fix things for a short while, but then the text and texture corruption return with a vengeance...

Eric

[Double]

I'm having the same problems with the text under Win2k.

Have anyone tried changing back to some older drivers?
I'll probably be trying that tonight.

Here's my specs.

T-Bird 1 Ghz.
256 MB PC133 CAS2 RAM
Abit KT-7A RAID Bios ver. WZ
G400 MAX
Win 2k incl. all updates/service packs
G400MAX driver package 5.51.005



[This message has been edited by Double (edited 30 March 2001).]

[Frankfurt]

NOt to brag, but the game seems to run fine on my win2k system...i have 256 MB ram, 900 MHz Athlon and am running SP1 with DX8. My only problem is i can't upload my creature (probably because of my firewall)

Frankfurt

[thop]

frankfurt: pls give us more details about your system. driver version, screen settings, b&w setup options etc. we need everything!

so far i've tried 5.03, 5.04, 5.14, 5.33, 5.51 - they all give me the font errors and texture errors (inside the citadel, my creature, everything has a wrong shadow: my creature for example has the shadow of my hand and some more minor flaws).

so any information you can give us is appreciated frankfurt!

ps. my system:

athlon 650
g400 16mb sh
256MB
win2k sp1
DX 8.0 (not 8.0a)

[enKoDed]

This probably has nothing to do with the Windows 2000 display issue, but some retail copies of B&W have beta version files. Here is the link to this new information;
http://www.avault.com/news/displayne...=3302001-21824

[thop]

actually this are (were) only rumours. check bwgame.com for the official statement from lionhead.