Don't know if this is a bug or just my system?
Occasionally, the game screen is messed up after running a game at 320x200 res. in fullscreen mode.
This happened not only with my games but with other people's games, too.
Let's say the normal screen looked like this:
.--------------.
|##############|
|#111111222222#|
|#111111222222#|
|#333333444444#|
|#333333444444#|
|##############|
'--------------'
Sometimes I get something like this:
.--------------.
|444444##333333|
|444444##333333|
|##############|
|Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã, |
|Ã, Ã, all blackÃ, |
|Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã, |
'--------------'
(The x offset is always at 160, but the y offset varies.)
I have Windows ME and an Elsa Erazor II gfx board.
Hmmm sounds like the system can't setup the screen correctly after running a game fullscreen.
Had you tried updating your graphic card driver and/or DirectX ?
What version of DirectX are you using?
The Erazor II is quite old, I have the latest drivers from Sep 2002.
I've updated DirectX to ver 9c after reading your reply and haven't experienced it again yet.
I used to have a similiar problem on my laptop. When running the game full-screen at 320x200, when the game ran it was squahed up to 160x200.
Maybe from:
.--------------.
|##############|
|#111111222222#|
|#111111222222#|
|#333333444444#|
|#333333444444#|
|##############|
'--------------'
to
.--------.
|########|
|#111222#|
|#111222#|
|#333444#|
|#333444#|
|########|
'--------'
You can either solve this by running the game at 640x400, or 640x480, or do what I did and create a new user on the pc and use that.
EDIT: Oh sorry, you've already solved your problem.
Sounds like some sort of problem with your graphics card drivers -- probably the best workaroudn if DX9 doesn't fix it is to run the games at 640x480 instead.