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by RobertB
Fri Jun 04, 2004 11:38 pm
Forum: Help: Setup / Hardware / Performance Issues
Topic: Scrambled text in Windows 95
Replies: 9
Views: 3924

w00t! I found the file and deleted the offending line. No effect. Doh! So I renamed the file and ran BZFlag. Success! It works! I didn't have much in the way of settings I couldn't live without, anyway -- just swapping "jump" and "drop flag". Now to do something about the 200ms l...
by RobertB
Fri Jun 04, 2004 10:05 pm
Forum: Help: Setup / Hardware / Performance Issues
Topic: Scrambled text in Windows 95
Replies: 9
Views: 3924

Hmm..you need to turn off texturing. Also, I assume you mean DirectX, because ActiveX would have nothing to do with this. BZFlag uses OpenGL for graphics, so my guess it that you don't have a video card or drivers that can do OpenGL. If you can run the game, you must have OpenGL.dll, just not hardw...
by RobertB
Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:44 pm
Forum: Help: Setup / Hardware / Performance Issues
Topic: Scrambled text in Windows 95
Replies: 9
Views: 3924

opengl? do you have it? Actually, that's what I was trying to do when I reloaded the Matrox drivers. The OpenGL site said that each card mfg implements OpenGL in its own way, so you have to go through them. Any hints on how I should make sure I have the latest & greatest Win95 OpenGL for the ha...
by RobertB
Fri Jun 04, 2004 8:56 pm
Forum: Help: Setup / Hardware / Performance Issues
Topic: Scrambled text in Windows 95
Replies: 9
Views: 3924

Scrambled text in Windows 95

In the cafeteria at work, they've put in a couple of old PCs with Windows 95. I was able to install BZFlag on each one and run it -- once. After that first session, when I attempt to run, all text is completely scrambled, with what appear to be random graphic elements. The first thing I did was re-i...