Fade out on flic render
16-Jun-95 05:44:09
Sb: #175629-Fade out on flic render
Fm: Larry Minton 74010,3076
To: Paul Bonsey 75203,603
I figure people that ask about random vertices and fading flics, and never show
their face again probably had a cracked version, and knew it. You were
persistent <g>. As a stupid question, do the floppies have official Adesk
labels on them with a purple stripe along the right side of the label? Laser
printers can make a pretty convincing label, but that purple should be hard to
duplicate.
Hardware incompatibilities with 3ds can be hard to track down. 3ds runs in 32
bit mode, and that places demands on the computer that "normal" programs don't.
I just got my computer back together again after a run in with page fault
messages.
Your best first bet would be to try 3ds out on another computer. Any 386 with
4 megs RAM or better will do. You don't care about speed, just functionality.
If it doesn't work there, I hope you know the guy that sold it to you, and have
a couple of (very large) persuasive friends.
If it does work on the other machine, leave a detailed hardware list of what
you have – computer type, video type, any other boards in the system.
We should probably take this over to the hardware section (section 3) for
hardware debugging.
Have fun <g>.
LAM