screen messed up at 320x200 fullscreen

[Khris]

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.

[Gilbert]

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?

[Khris]

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.

[Phemar]

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.

[Pumaman]

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.