Purple-pink items?! - AM I CURSED?

Erdrick · Post by **Erdrick** » Sun Jun 30, 2002 3:32 am

Recently most items have a pink glow about them, and Silentgun tells me his glows blue. (Twists the problem thats been stated before...)
I know martin or some gfx artist said it's the background showing up, but it did this suddenly. I've never had problems with Illarion like this, and I've been playing for almost 2 years now.
Can someone give me an explanation on why this is occuring?

Erdrick

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Astral · Post by **Astral** » Mon Jul 01, 2002 12:45 am

If you changed anything about your system configuration it could cause this. Perhaps a new video card or something... I can't see it occuring spontaneously.

Erdrick · Post by **Erdrick** » Mon Jul 01, 2002 7:25 pm

Did get a new harddrive... other than that...
Wait... I did download some sort of improvement for my graphics... and update for Gforce1 or 2... Think thats it?

martin · Post by **martin** » Sun Jul 07, 2002 12:18 pm

we had this discussion several times.
may i ask you which graphics adapter you are using, which system you are running and what graphics-driver you have installed?

martin

Wegdrodel · Post by **Wegdrodel** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 9:40 am

I've installed DirectX 8.1 and haven't had this pink pixels anymore.

Erdrick · Post by **Erdrick** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 1:59 am

DirectX 8.1 upgrade didn't work.
@Martin: My computer is the same. Any suggestions on what causes this, so I can just test things out?
Thanks.

Wegdrodel · Post by **Wegdrodel** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 8:56 am

Hmm, I think you need to install DirextX 8 first

But I think martin meant, that you should tell what your system is.

Erdrick · Post by **Erdrick** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 9:16 pm

I had DirectX 8, and I upgraded it to 8.1, and... It didn't work. =)
I'm not as dumb as I look. :biggrin:
I'm using nVidia Gforce 1 or 2, and I'm using the same system and everything else as before.

Wegdrodel · Post by **Wegdrodel** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 3:45 pm

Since you haven't told your system to martin, he can't help you.

Erdrick · Post by **Erdrick** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 2:35 am

I really don't think it makes a difference. The problem lies not there, and I'm not getting a new system.
I think it may be some sort of configuration with my graphics driver.
I have WindowsME.

(Edited by Erdrick at 2:38 am on July 12, 2002)

martin · Post by **martin** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 11:30 am

winME isn't a very good OS, however, that has nothing to do with your problem of pink borders. (instead of winME, try to get a copy of win2000 or winXP, which are much more stable!).

the pink borders are caused be eighter the graphics-driver or the graphics adapter. directX shouldn't have to do something with it. (the reaosn is the following: pink=transparent; dX offers a function to shrink graphics to a certain size and to have this transparent color. when shrinking a bitmap, it should do the following:
1) make pink transparent
2) shrink (with anti-aliasing);

however, some drivers mix up this sequence and do the following:
1) shrink (antialiasing against pink...)
2) define pink=transparent
and thats how the borders come in. however, the first version is the correct one, drivers SHOULD work like this, but some don't do as they should...)

try installing different drivers.

martin

Chyan Guo Messenger · Post by **Chyan Guo Messenger** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 6:01 pm

Is red a regular glow? I have WinME but mine isnt blue, nor pink, its red...

Bror · Post by **Bror** » Wed Jul 17, 2002 7:00 pm

I guess you have already mentioned the problem: You have installed new drivers for your graphics adapter.