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 Post subject: Blank screen problem
PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 5:53 pm 
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Greetings.
I am having a very strange problem with Daphne and I am not even sure when it began. Currently, games that have worked perfectly in the past now startup with a blank black screen with no errors in the daphne-error.log. I have tried deleting the .dat files for the video, and reparsing. When I do that, I start the game and it tells me it has to "parse the video...press any key to continue or ESC to exit." Well, I press any key and it just sits there on a black screen. If I then press ESC then it starts parsing the file (weird). Anyway, when I try to run the game after that it still goes straight to a blank screen. The weird thing is ONE game (DL2) works fine.

At one point I had version 0.99.6 and 0.99.7 installed to two separate directories. I guess somehow I overwrote my 0.99.6 directory with 0.99.7, so now I have two of them. I'm not sure if this is related, but is there some way to clear out my settings and try again? I didn't think there were any registry settings for daphne. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

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Andy

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 Post subject: Mixed DLLs?
PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:47 pm 
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It sounds to me as though you have a mixture of two different versions of Daphne. I would recommend downloading and installing 0.99.7 from scratch and trying it again. There are no registry settings or DLLs outside of the Daphne program directory.... only the files in the distribution are required.

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Hmm, good idea, thx (why didn't I think of that LOL).
I'll try that when I get home and let you know.

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Well installing a fresh daphne didn't help, but I did find the problem. I have had a really old analog gameport joystick plugged in for a while now. I unplugged it and then loaded up a game and it is all good again. Bizarre. I didn't even think to check that before because the daphne_log.txt had a line about "Successfully opened joystick #0" or something. Anyway, thx for the help.

Andy

PS is there a Daphne setting to ignore the joystick so I can leave it plugged in?

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I think you can do -nojoystick or something on newer builds ...


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How do I change fullscreen to windows size ? Because I am not able to click CONFIG due that it said Run-time error 7 out of memory. O.o

Also before I played DL2..why does the high Score list is empty and there is no "INSERT COIN" flash or something like in real arcade coin ? I just play it and everything seem to be fine sorta.

in Daphne log says: REMOVE ME : coin queue was reshuffled

what's that ?

Can you answer three questions ? Thanks!

EDIT: Everything is great now. Thank you!


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Sounds like you are using an unofficial version of Daphne. If you download an the official v0.99.7 version from this site, you may have better success.


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