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#Vibrant 1.0.5 p1 busted!

    10-Nov-94 07:41:36
Fm: Jeffrey Lerer 74073,244
To: SCOTT 76400,3113
Scott, I also run the Mach32 and have had garbled screen problems when running preview after rendering. Also, when leaving 3-DS, will get garbled screens in other applications. There seems to be a problem in how Vibrant Drivers use the card and don't give up settings. I tried a number of things, including excludes and what not, but nothing seemed to help. THE FIX: Before leaving 3-DS, or when encountering the garbled preview or running a 320×200 fli, I render to a blank screen with the VIBRANT 320×200 option selected. Clears the card just fine. Note: Right after R3 was installed, I contacted Jonas and Nik and was unable to get any sort of fix. After updating the drivers the problem continued, but the 320×200 render satisfied me, more or less. I suppose R4 will give me the same problem, hopefully not more, and perhaps, just perhaps, the problem will be gone. Tech side note: Nik and Jonas, if you still want to contemplate this card problem: If I leave 3-DS without clearing the card and go to windows, my windows apps are fine. However, if i run a DOS app in windows it is fine until I Alt-ESC. When going back into the app, then the screen is garbled. If I leave 3-DS without doing the 320×200 blank render, and go into Anim-Pro or Fractal Dev (both running Supervga 800×600) that is while staying in DOS, I get the garbled screen and have to go back into 3-DS and do the Vibrant 320×200 render.