A Teensy Daggerfall Video Glitch : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:10 pm

I recently upgraded to Windows 7. I got Daggerfall running no sweat, but the glitch I run into isn't in gameplay, and it is in fact a very wimpy thing to complain about. But Daggerfall can only be played in fullscreen mode, and when I hit alt+enter to activate fullscreen, the game's colors go awry into a rainbow of pinks, purples, and yellows. Now, as I said it is foolish to complain about this, as it can be lived with. But I would like to at least see if a solution is available. Some changing of resolution perhaps.

Insight would be welcomed.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:57 am

I recently upgraded to Windows 7. I got Daggerfall running no sweat, but the glitch I run into isn't in gameplay, and it is in fact a very wimpy thing to complain about. But Daggerfall can only be played in fullscreen mode, and when I hit alt+enter to activate fullscreen, the game's colors go awry into a rainbow of pinks, purples, and yellows. Now, as I said it is foolish to complain about this, as it can be lived with. But I would like to at least see if a solution is available. Some changing of resolution perhaps.

Insight would be welcomed.

You might need to play with DosBox video scaler options and maybe lock the aspect ratio - I gave up on the full screen mode with my new 25in flatscreen, as Daggerfall looked very strange... (but no odd colors)

good luck!

JimC

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:51 am

I recently upgraded to Windows 7. I got Daggerfall running no sweat, but the glitch I run into isn't in gameplay, and it is in fact a very wimpy thing to complain about. But Daggerfall can only be played in fullscreen mode, and when I hit alt+enter to activate fullscreen, the game's colors go awry into a rainbow of pinks, purples, and yellows. Now, as I said it is foolish to complain about this, as it can be lived with. But I would like to at least see if a solution is available. Some changing of resolution perhaps.

Insight would be welcomed.

go full screen before you load up Daggerfall. Now the problem still crops up during play, but a quit and relaunch will fix that. I don't know of a long term fix though.