Re: Heretic II

[Wolfgang <wolfgang rpi net au>]

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 11:09, Brian Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 18:58, Rick Johnson wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Rick.  I'll try that.  I probably had the colour depth too high. 
> I've got a GeForce2 MX card and an NEC MultiSync 75 monitor.
> 
> Brian
> 
> > You may want to post the details of your video hardware, but I imagine it's 
> > a matter of coercing the video mode to 16-bit color, which is what 5,6,5 means.
> > 
> > -Rick
> > -- 
> > Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - rjohnson medata com
> > Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc.
> > PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc

You may also want to try adding some colour depth settings in your
/etc/X11/XF86Config file. As it will help with most games, as they
default to 640x400, and a 16bit depth in most cases, until you run and
reconfigure the game.

This is an extract from my /etc/X11/XF86Config file:-

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "NVIDIA Geforce FX5900 Ultra-VTD256"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     16
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     8
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Even though my default desktop depth is 24bits, it will still run the
game and switch to 8bit or 16bit modes.

Wolf