18 replies to this topic

[AkmaYo]

This happened yesterday, so anyways, when I run a GM game, a white screen appears and some yellow barcode looking letter's appear around the bottom.

I'm running a Windows Vista btw.

Does anyone know how to fix this?/Is there a way to fix this?

[erty906]

Could you take a screenshot ? I'd like to see what it looks like.

PNG, please.

[AkmaYo]

Uh, here:
This was a turn based system I was working on. Its only showing the tiles.



And my typewriter example I was working on, it typed lines...



On GM exe's, it does the same thing. A white BG and yellow lines/blahblah.

[KC LC]

My cat has better communication skills. (All offense intended.) Your first post said "a GM game", which usually implies GM games in general. But your next post referred to two games that you are making. So I'm left with the feeling that you've just made a coding error. In which case, this topic belongs in Novice Q&A.

My patience is running out with these vague "I've got a problem" topics. So answer this question: If you select a popular game on YYG -- one that LOTS of people have played -- does it run correctly?

[AkmaYo]

If you select a popular game on YYG -- one that LOTS of people have played -- does it run correctly?

No, it doesn't. A white screen comes up and maybe one sprite or something, but in yellow. No GM game will work.

[KC LC]

No, it doesn't. A white screen comes up and maybe one sprite or something, but in yellow. No GM game will work.

OK, we've established something. But you should have made this clear in the first post, and not mentioned the games you were working on. That just confuses the issue.

Based on your first post, this problem just started yesterday. GM games worked fine before that, right? So my next question is: did you change anything recently, like installing new software, or modifying any system settings?

What about other (non-GM) games and/or graphics? Do they still look OK?

[Zeop]

I'm running on vista too..

I dont have any problems with gm games which leaves me to the conclusion that GM games are NOT the problem, the problem is YOU'RE computer..

How do you fix them in most cases? The answer is very simple indeed: UPDATE YOU'RE EFF'ING DRIVERS.



Now this is not the first time these kinds of problems have been posted, if you cared to use the search button i think you would have seen that this problem have probably already been posted, solved, dokumended up to multiple times.

[AkmaYo]

Based on your first post, this problem just started yesterday. GM games worked fine before that, right? So my next question is: did you change anything recently, like installing new software, or modifying any system settings?

No, I didn't it. I never touch any of the system settings

What about other (non-GM) games and/or graphics? Do they still look OK?

Yeah, they look fine.

[KC LC]

Based on your first post, this problem just started yesterday. GM games worked fine before that, right? So my next question is: did you change anything recently, like installing new software, or modifying any system settings?

No, I didn't it. I never touch any of the system settings

Since GM games ran fine before yesterday, that means your machine, your graphics card, and your drivers were fine then. Since this problem just started abruptly, then I'd say something is broken or corrupted.

Run a diagnostic check on your graphics card and drivers. There may be diagnostic tools on your machine or vendor's website. But I doubt anything is physically wrong with the card -- otherwise, you'd have other weird symptoms.

I'd guess a software driver got corrupted. Maybe even DirectX itself. I'd consider re-installing your drivers (and then DirectX if that doesn't solve it).

[NakedPaulToast]

Please tell us you've rebooted your machine.

Roll back your system to the state it was before the problem happened using system restore.

No, I didn't it. I never touch any of the system settings

You don't need to touch system settings to install new software.

Something has changed on your system, or possibly a hardware problem.

[Spaceoff]

The typewriter example error looks like a similar problem I faced on a pc when I (somehow, accidentally) deleted all non-system fonts on my pc... but I doubt that is the problem, so I'll think more straightforward here...

Only one sprite loading/tiles?
Tiles use slightly less CPU than sprites right?
Makes me wonder where the problem starts... Link some popular game you've tried on yoyogames and tell how fast it loaded... Maybe the problem is in the loading... Your PC for some reason or another may not be loading resources.

I assume from your lack of information you don't get any errors or error messages on the loading box...

If your running vista and they worked before on the very pc your running it's probably not a shortage of vram, ram or CPU, so I'd say it has to be drivers or messed up system software.

Try doing some research, find your graphics driver(ie, nvidia, ATI, intel) if you don't know already what it is, and look on the internet manually for the latest drive, and install it.
If it isn't nvidia, ATI or intel, that there might be the problem, and you may need a new graphics card from one of the major graphics card companies.

Edited by Spaceoff, 29 December 2008 - 05:17 PM.

[NakedPaulToast]

Try doing some research, find your graphics driver(ie, nvidia, atari, intel) if you don't know already what it is, and look on the internet manually for the latest drive, and install it.
If it isn't nvidia, atari or intel, that there might be the problem, and you may need a new graphics card from one of the major graphics card companies.

Atari???

[Smarty]

Try doing some research, find your graphics driver(ie, nvidia, atari, intel) if you don't know already what it is, and look on the internet manually for the latest drive, and install it.
If it isn't nvidia, atari or intel, that there might be the problem, and you may need a new graphics card from one of the major graphics card companies.

Atari???

It's probably an ANTIC chip.

(Couldn't resist. xot might understand).

Edited by Smarty, 29 December 2008 - 05:16 PM.

[Spaceoff]

Oops I meant ATI... I er... didn't sleep last night.

[daman123125]

Maybe you should get a virus scanner if there is any spyware, malware, bla bla bla. Would that work?

[Spoonman]

I can think of a slew of problems this is coming from. Like sughgested, GM runs on DirectX graphics, so you may need to run a diagnostic. In XP, it's Start >> Run >> dxdiag, but I have no idea what Vista's command is.

About drivers, that too. Maybe your graphics card has damage (have you bumped into or hit your computer recently?), but I wonder why other non-GM games work.

Another odd/possible thing is your Registry. There are a ton of problems that could stem from there. Maybe you happened to have a virus or other malware program corrupt a key.

I honestly can't help you other than that. Just don't do anything stupid.

[Raidation]

Have these "games" worked before? How much RAM do they require?

[ev149]

I can think of a slew of problems this is coming from. Like sughgested, GM runs on DirectX graphics, so you may need to run a diagnostic. In XP, it's Start >> Run >> dxdiag, but I have no idea what Vista's command is.

For Vista just type "dxdiag" into the search bar and click enter.

Have these "games" worked before?

Since GM games ran fine before yesterday...

[GrayAvocado]

Is your computer updating automaticly?