• Blue Scan Lines in Older Games
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I have a 32 bit Windows 7 OS, and I've noticed that any older game that runs in 640x480 has [I]incredibly[/I] distracting horizontal blue lines spaced about an inch apart. This happens in Diablo, and the main menu screen for Rainbow Six 3 (as the main menu is 640x480 but the game is not) What's the dealio? I can't change resolution for either game, and running in various compatibility modes seems to have no effect.
Is it running fullscreen? Sometimes old games when ran fullscreen have weird glitches such as inverted colors.
Please give us more information, full specs + monitor model will do.
Yes, running full screen. Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3GHz 4GB RAM ATI Radeon HD 4850 Monitor is a SyncMaster 931B 18", I do believe.
Screenshot/picture of screen of it?
I can't get a picture directly in Diablo as the colors mess up, but here's a picture I edited that looks basically what I'm seeing. The lines are static. Maybe a tad more translucent than in the picture. [img]http://i54.tinypic.com/ib9uv6.jpg[/img] Diablo isn't the only game I see this in. It's about every 640x480 older game. I mentioned Rainbow Six 3's main menu. I took a picture of it a long time ago, but I don't have the picture anymore and don't have it installed. It was the same thing as with Diablo. The lines were in the picture, as well.
Does running in windowed mode solve the problem?
Diablo was released in 1996 for Windows 95, and is a 16 bit game. Windows dropped support for 16 bit Windows applications starting with Windows XP. From WinXP on, Microsoft made a weak compatibility layer called WOW and WOW64 (former is 16 bit emulation for 32 bit versions of Windows and the latter is 32 bit emulation for 64 bit versions of Windows.) 16 bit games almost always don't run properly under WOW, and will have glitches like you're having with Diablo. If you want to make the game work properly, you're going to have to install an older version of Windows, since Diablo was never made open source. I would suggest installing Virtual Box and making a Windows XP VM. Although WinXP dropped support for 16 bit applications, the WOW emulator on it is far better than the one on Vista or 7, and it also uses the older driver model that those older games are more compatible with. As for Rainbow Six, games pre-2005ish were designed for CRTs, where they were able to have a dynamic resolution and weren't fixed like LCD screens. LCD screens running at really low resolutions tend to fuck up and get garbled or display artifacts.
It's Diablo II (released in 2000), not the first one. It's probably a LCD problem. [editline]8th September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Naelstrom;32186711]Does running in windowed mode solve the problem?[/QUOTE] Doesn't support it. [editline]8th September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=A big fat ass;32185772]I can't get a picture directly in Diablo as the colors mess up, but here's a picture I edited that looks basically what I'm seeing. The lines are static. Maybe a tad more translucent than in the picture. [img]http://i54.tinypic.com/ib9uv6.jpg[/img] Diablo isn't the only game I see this in. It's about every 640x480 older game. I mentioned Rainbow Six 3's main menu. I took a picture of it a long time ago, but I don't have the picture anymore and don't have it installed. It was the same thing as with Diablo. The lines were in the picture, as well.[/QUOTE] Have you tried different scale modes? Try keeping aspect ratio, and if that doesn't work, try making it not stretch at all (may make it quite tiny). Also make sure you try OpenGL / DirectX (whatever one you're not using) in the graphics options of Diablo 2, as well as 2D vs 3D mode (or whatever it was, I think it may be called perspective). I used to have problems in 3D mode because the textures wouldn't tile correctly. Also change the resolution, I know there's at least 2 you can choose from, I thought 800x600 was the largest D2 supported, not 640x480? Lastly, make sure you aren't forcing any AA or AF in the CCC. [editline]8th September 2011[/editline] Alternatively, go find an old 1024x768 or smaller monitor, it'd probably look nicer on that, anyhow.
800x600 is supported by expansion pack Lord of Desctruction. Diablo II alone doesn't support it.
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