Intro Cutscene... SWEET.
But only if it works. I installed Pre5, and set up the options as usual.
- 1024MB RAM
- Display Lists
- Medium Difficulty
- Sound and Music
- Blurry Bases
- Extreme Detail
- 1600x1200
- Reflective Per Pixel Lighting
- 32Bit Color Fullscreen
- No Mouse
- Times font
- 3 Axis Joystick and Throttle
The first thing I noticed was that all of the narrative text (i.e. 2669, Gemini Sector, Betweent he Kilrathis Empire and the Unknown) was chopped off. I could see the top half of the words, and the text ran off the screen to the right. After the cutscene finished, it started again. I clicked around for a bit and it stopped (I probably clicked on something I couldn't see). That's when I noticed that the base I was on (Perry) was also chopped off on the right and on the bottom. I figured I would exit the game and choose Sharp Bases so I could see everything, but when I loaded a module to quite the game, it ran off the top of the screen, so I couldn't even click the Save/Load button to quit the game.
I Alt-Tabbed out to Windows and killed Vegastrike from the task manager. Then I changed to Sharp Bases and started the game again. The text was still cut off in the same places, I just had a black border around the image this time. At this point I tried to take a screenshot (PRNTSCRN, not i), but it in no way captured what was on the screen.
click here for image
When I Alt-Tabbed back into the game to see what Perry looked like, my computer rebooted. I have "Automatically Restart" unchecked in my system properties (meaning this was not a BSOD, this was a true warm reboot).
But only if it works. I installed Pre5, and set up the options as usual.
- 1024MB RAM
- Display Lists
- Medium Difficulty
- Sound and Music
- Blurry Bases
- Extreme Detail
- 1600x1200
- Reflective Per Pixel Lighting
- 32Bit Color Fullscreen
- No Mouse
- Times font
- 3 Axis Joystick and Throttle
The first thing I noticed was that all of the narrative text (i.e. 2669, Gemini Sector, Betweent he Kilrathis Empire and the Unknown) was chopped off. I could see the top half of the words, and the text ran off the screen to the right. After the cutscene finished, it started again. I clicked around for a bit and it stopped (I probably clicked on something I couldn't see). That's when I noticed that the base I was on (Perry) was also chopped off on the right and on the bottom. I figured I would exit the game and choose Sharp Bases so I could see everything, but when I loaded a module to quite the game, it ran off the top of the screen, so I couldn't even click the Save/Load button to quit the game.
I Alt-Tabbed out to Windows and killed Vegastrike from the task manager. Then I changed to Sharp Bases and started the game again. The text was still cut off in the same places, I just had a black border around the image this time. At this point I tried to take a screenshot (PRNTSCRN, not i), but it in no way captured what was on the screen.
click here for image
When I Alt-Tabbed back into the game to see what Perry looked like, my computer rebooted. I have "Automatically Restart" unchecked in my system properties (meaning this was not a BSOD, this was a true warm reboot).