AGS Games are not playable on my computer

[antineff]

Well, I have a strange problem and I hardly have the hope that anybody can help me with that issue. But maybe there are some system-freaks around...

Generally I don't have problems to get AGS and AGS-Games working on any of my computers, except my companies laptop which I have to work with the whole day:

If an AGS game is loaded the screen stays black. If I try to execute it in windowed mode, the frame of the window appears on the screen displaying the desktops background but nothing else. When I now move the window by dragging it with the mouse, the picture of the game appears in it but without any animation as long as the window is not moved any further. The visual information is only actualized (and animated as well) as long as the window is dragged accross the screen.

Besides, the issue occur on every AGS game independently of the the AGS version. And it appears ONLY with AGS. I didn't recognize that issue with any other application. And: I don't have any problems to start and use the AGS-Editor, only with the compiled games.

So if anybody had that same problem and found a solution, your help would really be appreciated!!!

Thanks!

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

DirectX drivers are in order and updated, graphic card's drivers ditto, etc?

[antineff]

As far as I know... As I said: I only recognize those issues with AGS games.

Is there an alternative way I can test if those things are correct?

[antineff]

Sometimes you have to ask somebody to find a solution by yourself...

Or, at least, it is some kind of workaround: It seems to be an issue with the graphics card. I have a "Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS, 910GML Express ChipsetFamily" Model within my laptop. As long as my colourmode is set to 32 bit the issues appear. When I switch down to 16 bit, everything works fine!

Maybe somebody can give a more technical explaination for that circumstance.

Thank you very much!

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Can it be related to hardware acceleration?

(btw, in case you can't tell, I don't really know much about these things, but I've learned these questions are like checking your pulse and whether your breathing if you faint, and stuff - first stuff to check)