It has been a long haul

George_K · Post by **George_K** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:51 pm

Many months have gone by since the early versions of the editor that Steve2D was working on. I have re-installed DL and am on the 68th or 69th playthrough, don't remember exactly.

My setup is completely different now and there is a slight flicker in the menues, but the gameplay is otherwise flawless.

I don't know of any other game where you can completely take a game apart with either the editor, or simply from hex editing. However, there is one thing that Steve2D never got around to. As far as I know, there is no way of completely uncovering the game fog in the entire game world in one stroke. Pitty nobody ever took on this task.

I did, at one time in the past, get up on all the mountains and roamed around till all areas were uncovered that couldn't be uncovered in the normal terrain. Other than encounters with enemies, I had a save game before doing anything in normal game play, with an uncovered gameworld. And wouldn't you know it, lost the save file on an old hard drive*&$!!??

Anyhow, what ever became of Steve2D. Wish he or someone else would take on the task of an uncovered map border to border. In the meantime, maybe I'll play through 2 or 3 times on the way to the "smart ***" remark I made to someone of going for 100 playthroughs

George_K · Post by **George_K** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:27 pm

Cmon, guys n gals, even though I can play the game, the menu flickering is driving me nuts and the game will unexpectedly just quit. Give your thoughts and I will try different things from what suggestions come my way.

I now have dual core 2.7ghz, 4 gig ram, dual processor video card, etc. Maybe too much machine for DL? All other games, even G3, plays exceptional.

swcarter · Post by **swcarter** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:30 pm

Are you using SLI mode with your graphics cards? That sometimes causes flickering.

SWC

George_K · Post by **George_K** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 6:09 pm

Only flickers in menues; character stats, inventory, etc, not in gameplay. This only happens with DL, and no other game. The video card is one single unit (two cards slapped together). Following is what it is in my XP/svc pak3 system using dx 9.0c (latest version;

Asus Model EAH3870X2/G/3DHTI/1G

ATIÂ® RadeonÂ® HD 3870X2
> >
> > PCI Express support
> >
> > HDMI Output: built-in multi-channel 5.1 surround audio over DVI-HDMI
> > Adaptor
> >
> > Microsoft DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0 support
> >
> > OpenGLÂ®2.0 support
> >
> > HDCP compliant
> >
> > I/O Specifications:
> > PCI-Express
> > HDTV-out
> > DVI * 4
> > D-Sub
> > HDMI
> > HDCP compliant+-

**Update
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Found out game resolution has to be set next position higher than desktop resolution. Was using max on monitor of 1400/900 and in game resolution can only be set up to 1600/xxx which my monitor doesn't support. Besides, if game resolution is set too high, the menues can hardly be seen.

Finally settled for desktop of 1024/768 and game resolution of 1280/1024. Also with the map on, there is a slight flicker on the bottom of the menues if the game resolution is set too low.