home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Games of Daze
/
Infomagic - Games of Daze (Summer 1995) (Disc 1 of 2).iso
/
x2ftp
/
msdos
/
utils
/
tmkr11
/
trouble.txt
< prev
Wrap
Text File
|
1994-11-26
|
3KB
|
78 lines
TERRAIN MAKER
Version 1.1
Copyright 1994 Eric Jorgensen
TROUBLESHOOTING DOCUMENT
Preface notes
Command line parameters
Terrain maker accepts command line parameters that allow
you to change certain internal options. Run Terrain maker
with "-h" on the command line to see what these parameters
are. These options can help you get Terrian Maker to work
and locate possiblle problems.
SVGADIAG.EXE
With this package, I have included an executable called SVGADIAG.EXE
Wether or not Terrain Maker works, please run this program and
email the output file (SVGAOUT.TXT) back to me. It contains
information that can help me to help you as well as make future
versions of Terrain Maker more robust. Also, the informtion
can help me to expose manufactures that ship cards with
buggy VESA support.
Here is some troubleshooting information that I have gathered
over the past few months:
Some heightfields looked "creased" along verticle and horizotal lines.
You may notice on some of the heigtfields that Terrain
Maker generates, that the mountains appear to be aligned
to a grid. This is called creasing- an unavoidable problem
with midpoint-algorythm random landscape generators. There are
complicated, memory-expensive methods for reducing this problem,
but I did not feel like employing them for this release of
Terrain Maker. The best way to fix this problem is to
lower the smoothness factor.
Terrain Maker Crashes when I run it.
This is most likely a Video hardware problem. Run the program
SVGADIAG.EXE. It will generate a text file that contains
information that can help me find the problem. Email this file
back to me and include a description of the crash in the
section reserved for comments.
Most crashes happen bacause video hardware is not really
VESA compatable. I have discovered that some cards claim
to be compatable with the VESA standard, but they aren't. Many
companies recognize this problem, and are quite willing to
help you update your hardware.
Terrain Maker does not work under Windows.
Terrain Maker does not behave well under Windows. Exit
to DOS before you use it.
The mouse leaves ugly, blocky trails.
When I run terrain maker, I see lots of vertical bars.
Terrain Maker reports the wrong ammount of Video Memory.
Your video BIOS is probably old and/or buggy. Call you card maker
and complain. Also, run SVGADIAG.EXE.
When I press the Pseudo 3D button, Terrain Maker Hangs.
Your video card lied about being able to perform page flipping.
You can press 'D' to unhang Terrain Maker. Please run
SVGADIAG.EXE and email the output file to me.