Alice and G400

[[ghost]]

Hey everyone, i just got American McGee's Alice, and i was so excited to play it, but when i boot up the game, the front end is a maze of black and grey 'blocks'. The music plays, but i cant do ANYTHING and they just sit there and flicker!! I know my drivers are ok bcoz i play quake3 on this machine and it works fine...anyone else have this problem or a possible solution?

p3-450, 128 meg , g400 16meg , SB Live! Value, Quantum 13gb

[[ghost]]

Update: i am running Windows 2000, maybe that has something to do with it?? It said in the readme it had been tested with win2k though...

I also did manage to get into the game, but the graphics are all corrupted and the entire game plays in black and grey and white....

[Rik]

I don't know if this will help, but try using the previous Win2k driver. I noticed that using the most recent Win2k/Win9x G400 driver (5.20) gave strange texture effects in the FAKK2 demo (same game engine).

[Greebe]

Would that be the retail product?

[[ghost]]

Thanks for the tip Rik, ill give that a try....and Greebe....what else would it be?

[Greebe]

beta, like everything M$ first releases!

[[ghost]]

beta.....lol
nope its retail....i just have some good friends :P

[[ghost]]

Hey...on a side note, do i need to use the 'uninstaller' to revert back to the older (5.11) drivers??
I dont see anything about it in the release notes...
Or do i have to just goto vga then go from there?

[Greebe]

Yah, that's what M$ said! hehe

Uninstall, reboot, load up vga drivers, reboot, install whatever drivers you wish to run next.

[[ghost]]

Ok...this is the thing.......i took out the powerdesk icon from the systray as part of some tweaks i was doing ( win2k takes FOREVER to boot up) and now i dont know how to get the icon back again to uninstall or 'change' as it was in win98. I cant uninstall or change the driver from the display properties, so i dont know what to do next. I am pretty new to win2k so that doesnt help much......somebody let me know what to do....thx

[AmbushBug]

Just tried the Alice demo twice and I had the same problems - big grey & black boxes, not playable

Windows 98 - Latest drivers

So far the only comments I've read about it involve the phrase "jumping puzzles" so I'm not that depressed about playing it.

[Rags]

ghost,

In win2k uninstalling drivers is a snap. Simply goto add/remove programs, there will be an option there to uninstall your matrox software. Do this, reboot, and install your drivers and reboot again.

Rags

[Heiney]

Definetely a no go on my end. All I get are those big black and grey pixels, although I do see the alice logo and rogue logo right after I start the exe...........

WTF........didn't they TRY it on G400's?





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[antdude]

Me too with my G400 32 MB (non-MAX)! I just installed and play. I see the EA and Rogue Entertainment cutscenes, but then blackness with a big block on the right side that fades in and out. I can hear sound when I move my mouse. I had to end task the game. I am upset that the G400ers in here have the same problem. I don't have any problems with other games (including Q3A and Team Arena demo).

I am going to visit http://www.alice.ea.com/ and tell them about my problem . And they don't have a message board! I'd suggest you guys email the support. This is not good.

[This message has been edited by antdude (edited 03 December 2000).]

[antdude]

I was looking at my config.cfg file in Alice demo subdirectory and saw:

//
// Cvars
//
seta r_lastValidRenderer "Matrox G400"
seta r_ext_compiled_vertex_array "0"


I wonder if there is a problem here? It obviously detected my video card correctly. Hmm! Did anyone see anything odd in their config.cfg? Thanks.