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Discussion in 'Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor' started by catchaserguns, Aug 10, 2015.

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    I, recently, installed this game and it shows my characters as ghosts. Very see through. My video card is an ATI HD 6670 and I'm running XP 32 bit OS. Can someone help me? I've tried both the anti-aliasing and my characters still are see through. I have the latest drivers and I have tried compatibility mode. Still no success.
     
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    Try this solution.
     
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    That works for 7 and Vista but I'm running xp 32 bit. The game worked fine with the old onboard video card. But i upgraded to a card with a gig of video memory.
     
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    I run the game on XP (SP3) without problems using only the on-board graphicscard of the mainboard.

    Did you use the 1.1 installer patch to install the game?
    Have you already patched your game to version 1.4?
    Have you tried to disable hardware acceleration for your graphics card to play the game?
    http://www.deskshare.com/Resources/articles/dmc_turnoffhardwareacceleration.aspx
     
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    The show up clearly when I disable hardware acceleration. But my question is wont that hurt my video card?
     
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    No, just remember to reset it after you don't need the setting anymore.

    Also, somehow I missed you were on XP. I'm somewhat amazed you're having trouble on XP, actually. :p
     
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    It worked on my old card which was an Intel onboard card. I upgraded to a 1G Ati 6670 Hd card so i could play the better games. Now I cant play my older games because of the new card.
     
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    did you change the game's resolution after you got the new GFX card ?

    sinbce you're running XP you could try to disable hardware acceleration in the dxdiag configuration screen.
     
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    No, I didn't. I'm still using the same monitor I used last time. I've tried lowering hardware acceleration through my video card and I get better results. Too bad some video cards aren't backward compatible with some games.
     
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