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2008-02-09 18:48:55 - Map problems in Vista
I have noticed that there are map problems when running Vista with both B6 and B7, If I start up XP with B7 everthing works fine.
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2008-02-09 22:48:39 - Re: Map problems in Vista
Can you elaborate on your problems? Have you tried the workaround suggested for a similar problem in another thread in this section? (Changing OpenGL prefs)
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2008-02-10 07:57:00 - Re: Map problems in Vista
I can't find where to set the OpenGL on my laptop. Maybe I don't have it. It's not a pure gaming computer.
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2008-02-10 17:02:03 - Re: Map problems in Vista
Searching on the internet for OpenGL and Vista this looks like it will be an increasingly frequent problem!

On my laptop I did:control panel|classic view|Intel GMA driver for mobile (will be different on other computers)|display settings|color quality=16 bit

I tried fiddling with the 3D settings as per the other post but I don't think they did the trick.

PS it would be handy to have a search of the forum, or even the site as it took quite a while to find the post you referred to. Google doesn't reindex often or deeply enough for [xyz site:www.sailonline.org] to find things
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2008-02-11 08:42:26 - Re: Map problems in Vista
Pipedream:
Did 16 bit colors solve your problems?
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2008-02-11 10:13:11 - Re: Map problems in Vista
Good question. That was the last thing I did and it worked afterwards. I had changed one thing at a time on the 3D setting and restarted the client application each time and I unset them afterwards (as far as I could remember). However in the past I have been through a similar process installing drivers etc and having failed to solve the problem put everything back as it was, restarted the computer and it worked!

In this case if I switch 32 to 16 bits and back the map appears and disappears.
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2008-02-11 10:18:16 - Re: Map problems in Vista
Ok, I will try to change to 16 bits on my laptop to see if it will solve the problem then.

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I'll try to slightly change how I request the OpenGL context in the next version. That might do the trick :)
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2008-02-11 10:23:44 - Re: Map problems in Vista
That sounds good Kalle. The best thing would for sure that it work under Vista without any fix for the mainstream of users i guess. :)

Keep up the superb work!
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Changing to 16 bits didn't do it for me. I'll stick to my old XP laptop for the upcomming event.

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