styler
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Registered: 03-29-2004
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Re: DROD wouldn't start - corrupt dat file (+1)
Hello all,
I had exactly the same problem last night - but for what reason I'm not certain. At one point I noticed strange horizontal flickering in the DROD game window (I think I was playing the Oversight hold at the time, if that matters), that got particularly strong during screen to screen scrolls. A scroll later, my computer froze - which is very uncommon, since I run a properly configured win2000 on my box. No other applications were active at the time of the freeze, bar the usual windows background services. After restart, scandisk reported invalid file size for my DROD player file and truncated it - and it was kind of expected to see it non-functional after that. I renamed the backup copies to normal ones and it all worked all right (with a few rooms setback, though). However, the log file contains some messages devs might find interesting for debugging purposes (esp. the DirectDraw error). If you're interested, would you like me to post them as an attachment here, or via e-mail?
Also, if it would matter in tracing the origin of the error, I have DX9 installed, and the latest Nvidia video drivers, all functional, no errors.
Oh - and one more thing. Backup .dat files were exactly the same size as the non-functional ones.
Cheers
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