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On one of my machines (the most powerfull one) i cannot see any 256b intro. I start the com file , it switch to full screen and directly return to desktop.

If i start it from the command line (already in fullscreen), the screen goes black and after nothing more, if I press esc i return to command line

Is this a problem with my graphic card (7900GTO) and basic low level int13h routines?? or with the os (XP + sp2)

It has nothing to do with my lcd screen , since a crt do the same....

Can somebdy help me???

Thx

is your cpu/os 64bit?

I have XP SP2 (Celeron 2.80 GHz) and I can run most if not all 256b I come across.

I'm having the same problem right now with my new sys :(

Just a black screen, monitor seems to switch to the right resolution though.

E6600 + 7600GT + XP + SP2.

Time to make videos out of the 256b intros then.

virus. obviously.

Just use dosbox...

Since holidays I also have a new computer, really monster, and I haven't problems with 13h mode intros. Yes, graphmode - I think it makes your problem, guys. It's not an issue of Windows or monitor, I also have XP SP2 displaying on LCD, and probably it doesn't concern hardware like CPU or graphic card. Maybe graphic drivers? (I have GeForce 6600 with ForceWare 77.72).

Have you tried DOSBox? Demos often aren't smooth enough there, but at last you can watch them. And, in some extremely cases you can switch to pure DOS. I guess I'm one and only who have DOS installed, but you can run this environment for example by booting Win98 CD or boot-floppy. But these solutions should be applied when you want to see really "close-your-windows" intros, like maaq or and_256, for most of 256B intros any tricks are unnecessary.

This is actually a weird issue, i have a pretty new laptop and no problems to run all kind of dos <=256byte prods. I use XP, SP2 on an ati mobility x1600. You may also try out freeDos for pure dos mode.

Once i had an issue, it ran everytime fr034 whatever the .com application i launched, but a reboot solved it out... :-)

the same dila said

SP2 is gay. Apart from that, what LiraNuna said.

I have the same problem. I wonder if it happened after I got the fancy spancy widescreen monitor.. dell something something..

i can't run 256b's on a wide screen monitor too.

The only technical problem I know is when filepath to the dos intro contains non-english symbols

same problem.
core 2 duo - nv7900gtx -winxp sp2 - latest forceware

nön-ênglısh? whât dô yüõ méãn? ;)

i agree, sometimes even space characters can cause a trouble. first copy your 256b intro to the root of c: and rename it to a.com or sth. then open command prompt and try to run it from there. if it still doesn't work, dos emulation is the only solution I know.

I've had an issue with a few 256b's recently too. The demo will run fine, but I can't quit, as the keyboard no longer responds (even ctrl-alt-del, num lock etc). Only seems to happen on a couple of prods though, most run fine.

these kind of troubles doubles my love to c64 :)

Try to disable noexecute, maybe it helps.

Fish obviously means $, because it's not English.

256b demos run here, however they go to fullscreen but somehow the screen's pitch seems to be incorrect, and the graphics distorted with couple of lines squashed on top of each other..

Any idea? (I already tried playing with windows' "compatibility" switches, does not seem to do anything.. including asking it to display it in a window vs fullscreen, which does not work)

(I'm not interested in dosbox here)

painful :(