Bug on Windows7

rainerz · Post by **rainerz** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:33 am

Hello TS community,

i am having troubles to get TS to run on my Windows7 machine.
If i start the game there are graphical bugs, the menu is unreadable:

I tried to start the game with admin priviligies and under WinXP Compability etc, nothing worked, any suggestions how it mighty work?

Post by **dede** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:25 am

Hi and welcome. TurboSliders isn't officially supported for Windows Vista, even though it works for nearly everybody. I don't know if anybody tried the game in Windows 7, so at the moment I don't have suggestions.
You could try making all the steps suggested for Vista, but I'm not sure if it would help at all. Update graphic drivers, SDL (?).

I'll ask around in order to help more in next days.

Post by **Tijny** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 12:01 pm

I have been using Windows 7 for about a month now, and TS runs without any problems whatsoever. I suppose you could try running the game in compatibility mode, and if that doesn't work, changing the display mode from OpenGL to something else (you can do so in sliders.ini if the menu is too unreadable) even though that might cause other problems while playing.

rainerz · Post by **rainerz** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:51 pm

Thanks for the advice with sliders.ini,

i changed OpenGL Mode to DirectX and now the game ist running, not quite sure if its running as fast as on WinXP, but is running

Thanks for all your help.

btw: i did not change the SDL.dll and i am not using a compability mode, just for info.

edit: admin priviligies are still required

Jurgen-NL · Post by **Jurgen-NL** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 3:34 pm

when i start up TS here too i have the same vague screen,
and i tried adjusting in sliders.ini but for some reason everytime i saved and i opened sliders.ini again it wasnt saved at all

after a quick reinstallment it wasnt the problem that it didnt got saved but i cant seem to find sliders.ini at all in the folder.

Post by **dede** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 3:49 pm

Jurgen-NL wrote:when i start up TS here too i have the same vague screen,
and i tried adjusting in sliders.ini but for some reason everytime i saved and i opened sliders.ini again it wasnt saved at all

Probably because you are editing it while TS is running. When TS closes, it saves settings to sliders.ini again.

Jurgen-NL · Post by **Jurgen-NL** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 3:54 pm

dede wrote:
Jurgen-NL wrote:when i start up TS here too i have the same vague screen,
and i tried adjusting in sliders.ini but for some reason everytime i saved and i opened sliders.ini again it wasnt saved at all
Probably because you are editing it while TS is running. When TS closes, it saves settings to sliders.ini again.

read above

Post by **dede** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 4:36 pm

Jurgen-NL wrote:read above

You either didn't explain it clearly or you didn't understand what I wrote.

Jurgen-NL · Post by **Jurgen-NL** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 5:53 pm

after a quick reinstallment it wasnt the problem that it didnt got saved but i cant seem to find sliders.ini at all in the folder. i edited my post for you to read but

Post by **Tijny** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:19 pm

Jurgen-NL wrote:after a quick reinstallment it wasnt the problem that it didnt got saved but i cant seem to find sliders.ini at all in the folder. i edited my post for you to read but

And it never occurred to you that maybe you need to start TS once for it to be created?

Jurgen-NL · Post by **Jurgen-NL** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 7:55 pm

yup plus i had to change something inside sliders.ini to get it saved properly

Parsa · Post by **Parsa** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:42 pm

I am struggling with this same problem in Windows 7.

I am able to play the game if I switch to SDL or DirectDraw but the game does not run as smoothly as it does with OpenGL (or at least did with previous installation of windows

From google you can find that Windows 7 seems to have issues with OpenGL. nVidia users might be interested in http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards ... ber=251512

Unfortunetally I have ATI so I might be stuck with this problem a while.

shyguy1001 · Post by **shyguy1001** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:52 pm

Have you turned off alpha blending? You must do this to get TS to work correctly with direct draw.

Parsa · Post by **Parsa** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:54 pm

Yes, Alpha Blending is off.

The difference between (previous) OpenGL and DirectDraw is not big yet it its noticable.

Philippe · Post by **Philippe** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:26 pm

I've been running TS on Windows 7 (64 bit) for 6 months without any problems at all. The settings are:

Driver: DirectDraw
Double Buffering: Yes
Alpha Blending: Yes
Lightmapping: Yes
Menu Effects: Yes
Smooth FPS: Yes

Used the same setup on Vista 32 bit

Parsa · Post by **Parsa** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:41 pm

Thanks @Philippe, enabling Smooth FPS helped a lot.

Still waiting for working OpenGL drivers from ATI, though

DjDiabolik · Post by **DjDiabolik** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:39 am

Parsa wrote:Thanks @Philippe, enabling Smooth FPS helped a lot.

Still waiting for working OpenGL drivers from ATI, though

Oh yeah!! I have post and post again the same problems!!!

THIS GAMES NOT WORKING WITH THE LATEST 9.x CATALYST DRIVER IN OPEN GL !!!

But nothing can help me.... nothing answer me... nothing support......

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