I just installed the game today to try it out, and ran into an odd problem in which the graphics would flake out. Black squares would appear on the environment, and interactive objects (like the torches in the first room) were replaced with flickering red textures. Text from menu buttons would appear all over the screen, very large (like glitches from old NES games) and impossible to get rid of.

I turned off triple buffering, vsync, and set the game to single-core affinity in the Nvidia control panel, but am at a loss as to what comes next. Does anyone else have this problem or any idea how to fix it?

I am running XP SP3 and using an Nvidia GTX 260 graphics card. I have texture glitches with a few other games from the 2000-2003 era (C&C Generals and Dungeon Siege especially, though the new freeware title Desktop Dungeons often has this same 'black textures and text everywhere' glitch), but wasn't expecting it here.

Is there maybe a way to change the way it renders?

I have not heard anyone using the old config tool to set rendering say there was a problem with setting resolutions. I had no problems on the XP system I used it on.

Understand that the config tools, old and new, have a very limited selection of older res combos. You really need to set it manually for today's wide screen and higer res monitors.

You can look here under Resolution for more info on setting the res manually. Basically you go to the DD install directory and find a file named config.div. Open it with notepad and find the following lines -

// display width
Width 1280

// display height
Height 1024



Changing the res to 1920 x 1080 would look like this

// display width
Width 1920

// display height
Height 1080

Insert your monitor resolution number after the appropriate width / height setting and save the file. Open DD and the game will be at the res you set. Again, many folks have used the old config tool to set the rendering to DirectDraw and I can't say that I remember anyone not being able to set their res to the desired size.

As I mentioned above an odd res such as 1366 x 768 may not allow the game to run at all while a nominal setting such as 1280 x 800 (which is very close to the 1366 x 768) will sometimes fix that particular graphics problem. I would use my native resolution first, if no joy, try a nominal size which is closest to yours . . . =)

IMHO resolutions higer than around 1280 horzontal make the charaters and text too small for me to enjoy the game but others love the higher resolutions . . . it's up to you . . . =)