Not This Frickety Frack Again (SOLVED)

[Admiral DadMan]

Had it working in Windows 8.0 in November before this latest March 2015 patch. I updated to 8.1 sometime ago, and yesterday installed the latest patch. Anyone have any ideas beyond thermo nuking the HDD?

I have DxDiag from Oct 2014 and May 2015 if that helps.

[witpqs]

No tricks at all were needed here. The only thing that fiddling with the program's switches did was deal with the performance.

[wdolson]

If you had a compatibility mode switch set (such as run like Win XP), I've found Windows sometimes spontaneously resets those. One program I run in XP compatibility mode on two computers randomly gets that cleared when I reboot sometimes.

Then there are the command line switched in AE too as witpqs mentioned.

Bill

[Admiral DadMan]

No compatibility switches were set, to my memory. Both WitP AE AND WitP are borked. I've uninstalled both, and and re-installed both, starting from the release versions and applying the one patch for AE and the several for WitP. Same result.

I am beside myself p1ssed.

[witpqs]

BTW, do you mean Windows 8.0 literally? Why haven't you upgraded (free!) to 8.1?

[witpqs]

I just ran a quick test to make sure recent Windows patches haven't fragged anything and it still works on my Windows 8.1 (not quite the latest AE patch I have loaded there but I figure a good test).

[Admiral DadMan]

Correction: I was using 8.1 in October. Just checked my DxDiag from then.

[Admiral DadMan]

With the help of Matrix/Slitherine tech support, I found and corrected the issue, and it now runs.

In October, I ran a DxDiag while helping to Alpha test World of Warships, so I had a baseline to compare with one I ran last week.

In October I had this:

Graphics Preemption: DMA
Compute Preemption: Thread

In May it was this:
Graphics Preemption: Primitive
Compute Preemption: Thread group

So I Google searched "How to set Graphics Preemption: DMA" and found this How to set the changes of color of my screen display back to default?

I did the Ctrl Alt F8 and rebooted. PRESTO!

Thanks to everyone who expended mental CPU cycles to assist.