Screen Messes up upon loading

[Marshall Ellis]

Can you tell me what O/S or did I miss this?
 
 
 
 

[cdbeck]

Windows XP
Video Driver/Card: nVidia 7800
3GB Ram
Dell Dimension

[Erik Rutins]

Marshall,

ORIGINAL: Marshall Ellis
Can you tell me what O/S or did I miss this?

Check the DxDiag files, which are posted above as in-post attachments.

[Marshall Ellis]

Son Of Monfort:

Please manually set your screen res to 1024 x 768 and then try to execute the game. Tell me the results...

[ulver]

ORIGINAL: Son_of_Montfort

Ok, I did get a change. I used this Indeo 5.11 installer below. Once I did this, I actually got the intro movie to load! However, the screen distortion remains the same.

SoM

I should have been clearer. The matrix intro movie played fine for me. Might be two unrelated issuer- I’m running win XP with a ATI mobiity Radeon X600 GFX card – so it is not Nvidia specific

[ulver]

ORIGINAL: Marshall Ellis

Son Of Monfort:

Please manually set your screen res to 1024 x 768 and then try to execute the game. Tell me the results...

Resetting screen resolution mad no difference to me.

[Marshall Ellis]

ulver:
 
Can you manually set your screen res to 1024 x 768 then run?
 
 
 
 

[mmattson]

Same for me,  got Directx10 of a microsite site  and tried again without success

help

[Dego]

I have the same problem.[&:]

[ulver]

ORIGINAL: Marshall Ellis

ulver:

Can you manually set your screen res to 1024 x 768 then run?

Tried it - makes no diff

[Dego]

...and I've manually set my screen res to 1024 x 768, but there is the same problem.

[Marshall Ellis]

ulver:
 
You say your laptop res is locked (i.e. you cannot manually change it)?

[cdbeck]

My screen resolution has always been 1024x768 (my standard). Is there a way to go to the data file to see if that is an issue? I run a CRT monitor, BTW.

[Marshall Ellis]

Son_of_Monfort:
 
Your screen paint looks like your screen res is more than 1024 x 768. The intro BMP is exactly 1024 x 768 and it looks like it is only taking up a small portion of your screen??? Can you double-check?
 
 

[cdbeck]

The BMP takes up only a small rectangle window in my screen (not full screen like other Matrix titles). So that makes some since then, the game is switching to another resolution than my native.

Here is something interesting, I switched my resolution way high, up to 1650x1000. My native desktop looked like a mess (all skewed and bent). Upon running EiA, the screen cleared up and did EXACTLY the same thing it was doing under 1024x768 (it even changed by refresh rate back to 90hz).

The game seems to be switching my resolution.

EDIT: I re-confirmed this. No matter my native resolution, the game switches it to its resolution of 1024x768. The video is still a rectangle in the middle, and the loading screen still distorted.

SoM

[Marshall Ellis]

SoM:
 
It should be switching to 1024 x 768 BUT should also be restoring your resolution when exiting. IT's all DX doing this???
 
 

[cdbeck]

Oh no... it does return when exiting, sorry to add confusion.

What I really meant was that it makes no difference what my native resolution is to the screen of EiA, as it switches to the distorted on upon loading.

SoM

[ulver]

ORIGINAL: Marshall Ellis

ulver:

You say your laptop res is locked (i.e. you cannot manually change it)?

Sory - yes I can. I did and t makes no difference

[cdbeck]

Per Erik in another thread, I double-clicked the matrixlogo.avi movie from the directory. It came up, full screen (taking up nearly all of my 1024x768). So it is something inside the program that is altering both the .avi playback size and the screen distortion.

EDIT: Also tried to run directly from directory. No help.

SoM

[mmattson]

Is there a means to delete the entire file and folder (obviously)
 
rerun the download and go thru the install again.
 
I supose is there a means to get back to the download screen?
 
mm