I'm trying to play castles 2 on my xp machine, and everything seems to be working fine except the mouse. I get a similar problem playing Populous 2, but not so often, and it's easily fixed by moving the mouse around.
In castles it's unplayable (at least with the mouse), the 'lines' do go away after a time, but there's always more, I don't think I've ever been able to move the mouse around freely for even a moment. I'm using a microsoft USB mouse, but I also tried using it as a PS2 mouse. I've also tried running the game with Virtual PC on win98 to no avail (same problem).
Is this common? All my attempts to google it revealed nothing.
Mouse being constricted by invisible lines
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ComputerWolf
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he's already tried.
have seen the problem before, but don't get it right now.. no idea what causes it. i use a USB mouse and don't have any problems running DOS games (as long as im running them in windows, i use pure DOS quite a bit which needs me to switch to a PS/2 or Serial mouse)
i seem to be able to run practically any game on my system without having to change a single thing, though. from Elite 2: Frontier (in windows, with sound) to the original C&C (with movies, sound and IPX multiplayer) and doom, descent, etc... to TA, to everything up from there :p (in general).
I use win98SE myself, ive used it for years- i can't seem to understand why so many people hate it. ive tried XP and just... no. it dosen't make anything work better, it dosen't make me be able to do anything new that's useful or i want to do... and i have so many little problems with even semi-recent games that it's just...ugh..annoying.
anyway, i'll stop there (last time i ranted on about it people got into a big flame war. 'dos with pictures' is how one person described 98.lol.but heh, i love dos so a version of it that works with all my games and programmes should technically please me :p)
anyway, the problem itself- as i said ive no idea. though it COULD be somewhat related to a graphical issue? i know it sounds bizarre- but that's the only real problem ive ever had with most games (over the years, and on other people's computers). sometimes it would be the text not displaying properly or not at all, sometimes there'd be flickering lines all over part of the screen, sometimes the entire screen would be a mass of multicoloured static.. and sometimes it would seem to revert to 16 colours and go jerky. (Halo did that to me once :\) but either way- if those 'invisible lines' arn't related to the actual mouse then it could possibly be something to do with the visual..ness.. of it. changing the resolution may help- if not all of the in-game settings. then you could also try changing the properties of the .exe file - MS-DOS .exe files seem to have specailized options there that may or may not help. most probably not, but worth a try... ?
have seen the problem before, but don't get it right now.. no idea what causes it. i use a USB mouse and don't have any problems running DOS games (as long as im running them in windows, i use pure DOS quite a bit which needs me to switch to a PS/2 or Serial mouse)
i seem to be able to run practically any game on my system without having to change a single thing, though. from Elite 2: Frontier (in windows, with sound) to the original C&C (with movies, sound and IPX multiplayer) and doom, descent, etc... to TA, to everything up from there :p (in general).
I use win98SE myself, ive used it for years- i can't seem to understand why so many people hate it. ive tried XP and just... no. it dosen't make anything work better, it dosen't make me be able to do anything new that's useful or i want to do... and i have so many little problems with even semi-recent games that it's just...ugh..annoying.
anyway, i'll stop there (last time i ranted on about it people got into a big flame war. 'dos with pictures' is how one person described 98.lol.but heh, i love dos so a version of it that works with all my games and programmes should technically please me :p)
anyway, the problem itself- as i said ive no idea. though it COULD be somewhat related to a graphical issue? i know it sounds bizarre- but that's the only real problem ive ever had with most games (over the years, and on other people's computers). sometimes it would be the text not displaying properly or not at all, sometimes there'd be flickering lines all over part of the screen, sometimes the entire screen would be a mass of multicoloured static.. and sometimes it would seem to revert to 16 colours and go jerky. (Halo did that to me once :\) but either way- if those 'invisible lines' arn't related to the actual mouse then it could possibly be something to do with the visual..ness.. of it. changing the resolution may help- if not all of the in-game settings. then you could also try changing the properties of the .exe file - MS-DOS .exe files seem to have specailized options there that may or may not help. most probably not, but worth a try... ?
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colorblind
any ideas? i am kinda desperate-
Kaktus