Again the red square...
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 10:06 pm
Still not having a working solution for running VS in Win7/64 on my laptop with ATI HD3200 video.
I think we can safely flag the problem as related to the 64-bit Windows drivers for this particular card. The latest revs of the svn code don't crash anymore as they used to (is it the code that changed or is it that the latest updates I installed resolved some conflict? We'll never know)
However, it doesn't run properly. The game window displays a solid red, and in task manager the process takes 50% of the CPU, which means it uses up one core completely - normal I assume. Also takes about 220M of memory. It does appear that the game engine is running underneath since by clicking at random over the red area - I can't even see a mouse pointer - I was able once to bring up a screen that displayed the background story text with light red characters on dark red background... and with something that looked like a square mouse cursor, slightly darker red than the background overlayed on top... So I think it's a driver problem, but unfortunately none of the available drivers work.
I think the combination of ATI HD3xxx + 64-bit windows drivers should just be marked as borked. Which is unfortunate, because on the same hardware VS works fine in 64-bit Ubuntu.
I think we can safely flag the problem as related to the 64-bit Windows drivers for this particular card. The latest revs of the svn code don't crash anymore as they used to (is it the code that changed or is it that the latest updates I installed resolved some conflict? We'll never know)
However, it doesn't run properly. The game window displays a solid red, and in task manager the process takes 50% of the CPU, which means it uses up one core completely - normal I assume. Also takes about 220M of memory. It does appear that the game engine is running underneath since by clicking at random over the red area - I can't even see a mouse pointer - I was able once to bring up a screen that displayed the background story text with light red characters on dark red background... and with something that looked like a square mouse cursor, slightly darker red than the background overlayed on top... So I think it's a driver problem, but unfortunately none of the available drivers work.
I think the combination of ATI HD3xxx + 64-bit windows drivers should just be marked as borked. Which is unfortunate, because on the same hardware VS works fine in 64-bit Ubuntu.