Invisible plane after alt-tabing

[Exile]

I just installed XP and ran into this problem. If I don't alt-tab, everything is ok, but once I do and then come back the graphics are all screwed.

Any ideas? Has the fix for this been posted in another thread?

[Furious]

Try setting you AH screen resolution and color depth the exact same as that of your desktop.

F.

[Exile]

it is

1280 x 1024, 32bit
Windows XP
GeForce 256 DDR 32mg
DirectX 8.1

[ 10-26-2001: Message edited by: Exile ]

[Sancho]

In Win2k, if I alt-tab and come back, I get all kinds of psychadelic colors making Aces High unusable.  This is with the latest Nvidia detonator drivers.  If I use the Hercules drivers for my card, it works just fine.

Curiously, other 3d games have no problems with the latest detonators, and I do get a nice framerate boost with them in Aces High.  Too bad I can't use em since I alt-tab out a lot.

I have a GeForce 256 SDR, directX 8.1, and Win2k SP2.

[ 10-27-2001: Message edited by: Sancho ]

[Seeker]

I get the multi colour effect for may be one second after alt-tabbing, along with a "freeze frame" of where I was when I alt tabbed; then after a second it "jumps" to my current position with correct colours. I haven't seen the "invisiplane" thing (but I wouldn't, would I?   )

Win 98 updated through the MS site, Dx 8, gefoce 2 on the lastest drivers.

[pokie]

Have you tried the Windows key if you have one on your key board.

Also what about trying Ctrl+Esc see if that helps.

Pokie

[Exile]

I was using the latest NVidia drivers 21.83. I tried all different ways to get back to Windows and they all created the same problems.

I rolled back to the 21.81 drivers Hercules has on their site and the problems remain.

I guess I'll just have to hold off doing other things while I fly until a fix comes along.

[Sancho]

I had problems with both 21.81 and 21.83.  14.10 works fine for me.

[jpeg]

Why do you need to alt tab out of games anyways?

[Exile]

Originally posted by jpeg:
Why do you need to alt tab out of games anyways?

when I'm climbing out in a relatively safe area I like to check email or work on various other stuff.

Multi-tasking ... it's a must!    

[Sancho]

my bad... 14.10 doesn't work either after alt-tabbing.      I just re-installed Windows 2000 last night (disabling ACPI to get rid of shared IRQs) and thought I was using 14.10 before the reinstall.  Actually, I have to use 6.34 back from October 2000 to get satisfactory results.  Anyone else with the first generation GeForce SDR and DDR cards find that later drivers don't work well?

If you go to Guillemot's website they have them under the Guillemot support/drivers section for the "MaxiGamer 3d Prophet".  They are Win2k and not specifically XP drivers though.

[ 10-29-2001: Message edited by: Sancho ]

[maddog]

Get the wierd color thing myself using w2k with GF3... Hitech said to disable palate snoop... same problem.... sometimes its cool... reminds me of the 60s.... saw New York the same way one weekend......
doc

[Exile]

I didn't see that setting in my Bios.

KT7a motherboard, latest VIA 4-in-1 drivers.

[Redd]

I had this same problem and played with some settings and it seems to have fixed it

in my case i set the antialiasing to 4X manually and the problem has gone away. I was previously set to "let the game decide" or something like that  - i haven't tried 2X or the other setting

[Exile]

nope ... just tried all anti-aliasing settings and nothing helped.

thx for posting that though