Flickering in v1.08

[swilhelm73]

Since installing v1.08 the game has a tendency to flicker. It only does this in EU2, and only since installing v1.08.

Specifically, the screen seems to go black for the tiniest fraction of a second - not enough time to fully register on the human eye, but enough to make it seem as though, for example, I just blinked - but this is not a case of me blinking

 

[Castellon]

This is generally caused by either something in the back ground, like /ICQ/E-mailMessanger/Internet/Virus protection ...

Or a bad refresh rate.

 

[swilhelm73]

This is generally caused by either something in the back ground, like /ICQ/E-mailMessanger/Internet/Virus protection ...

Or a bad refresh rate.

Hmm, I did just install some new spyware guards recently. I presume disabling them would, most likely, then fix the issue?

 

[Castellon]

Easiest way is to turn them off and try.

 

[swilhelm73]

Well after a little experimentation the problem appears to have been a product called Spyware Guard. I specifically had to deactivate all the spyware protections it offers, not just real time scanning.

Just wanted to get the program name in here there so that if anyone else does a search on it they can find this thread.

 

[Castellon]

Glad that is sorted.

 

[unmerged(28842)]

Had the problem too on my second computer. The reason was the IE and some flash banners on the opened website. Even if minimized this seems to be a problem while using Firefox on the other PC causes no problems.

 

[Castellon]

There are a lot of Hardware interactions in a PC so what will effect one will not nec. have the same effect on others.

 

[jpd]

Had the problem too on my second computer. The reason was the IE and some flash banners on the opened website. Even if minimized this seems to be a problem while using Firefox on the other PC causes no problems.

Yup. IE is a nasty 'program', if you can call that piece of junk a program

For example. I am currently writing this with Netscape Communicator 4.75 right now. Why? Well, I have booted into my almost virgin Win98SE/DX8.1 installation, because I want to play Diablo II on battle.net in a couple of minutes. But when I start IE and subsequently quit IE (which is the default, build-in version, no plugins or other garbage), I can't start Diablo II anymore. The system will freeze solid 2 seconds into Diablo II start. And that happens every time I have used IE.

EDIT: And it's not great fun accessing these forums with Netscape. Somehow, the formatting of the various pages is designed to IE specific extentions. It looks really, really bad when viewed with Netscape. But hey, anything is better than a hard reset and subsequently waiting for a 60 GB scandisk to finish

Jan Peter

 

[Castellon]

You can turn the Autoscan disk on improper shutdown off.
Big help on problem systems.

 

[jdrou]

And it's not great fun accessing these forums with Netscape. Somehow, the formatting of the various pages is designed to IE specific extentions. It looks really, really bad when viewed with Netscape.

It looks fine with Opera (6 and 7+). I only use IE on a few intranet apps requiring ActiveX and a few websites that absolutely require IE.

You can turn the Autoscan disk on improper shutdown off.
Big help on problem systems.

Never knew this; apparently you just set AutoScan=0 in the [Options] section of msdos.sys for Win98. For WinME it's a registry edit; see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;152404.

 

[jpd]

It looks fine with Opera (6 and 7+). I only use IE on a few intranet apps requiring ActiveX and a few websites that absolutely require IE.

Well, I don't have opera, and Netscape is still sitting on my hard drive, from the early glory days, when IE was just a niche player. The great thing about Netscape is that it absolutely doesn't need or use the registry. Just double click after an OS (re)install, and off it goes.

Never knew this; apparently you just set AutoScan=0 in the [Options] section of msdos.sys for Win98. For WinME it's a registry edit; see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;152404.

I knew that it was possible. Just don't like applying it. A FAT partition is kind of sensitive to sudden reboots. I don't want to have cross linked files or other nasty stuff

Jan Peter

 

[Castellon]

Never knew this; apparently you just set AutoScan=0 in the [Options] section of msdos.sys for Win98. For WinME it's a registry edit; see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;152404.

A lot easier than that, you can access it by runing that info program, and look at the pull down for tools, then maybe advanced options, then it is just a toggle box.

Sorry I cannot be more specific, I know how to do it I just don't have it in front of me at the moment.

 

[AndrewT]

Allow me to recommend FireFox as a worthy non-MS successor to NetScape. Apart from anything else it shows these forums perfectly.

 

[jdrou]

A lot easier than that, you can access it by runing that info program, and look at the pull down for tools, then maybe advanced options, then it is just a toggle box.

Sorry I cannot be more specific, I know how to do it I just don't have it in front of me at the moment.

The MS link describes doing it with msconfig but I've never used that; I prefer to know the registry keys or ini-file entries.

 

[Castellon]

The MS link describes doing it with msconfig but I've never used that; I prefer to know the registry keys or ini-file entries.

Just easier to tell someone who does not know what they are doing to click on a box vs editing the registry.