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Interstate seriesHuge graphics bug :( Need help(39 posts)(39 posts)
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Posted February 25, 2010
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nemo3000: :-( ... They need to patch it or something. No way I'm going under the hood for playing it.
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frilled: Depends on who "they" are. The "failed to initialize hardware renderer" is obviously an AMD/ATI problem. Once you get that working, the game works with the "-glide" switch, so GOG's job is mostly done here.
I'm not sure whether there's any other fix than killing the shell under vista/w7, as simply disabling designs/aero in compatibility settings doesn't fix it. This would be something for M$ to put into their app compatibility settings, I think.
GOG could install the batch somewhere, but under XP it's not such a great idea to kill the shell, as opposed to the never systems.

I'd not say that it's an issue with the microsoft operating systems. I get exactly the same problem when trying to run -glide mode in Wine on my OS X machine. Software rendering works flawlessly, but -glide looks like I'm having an acid trip. There's no way to kill explorer there, either, since explorer doesn't even exist in Wine.
I think there's just an issue with modern hardware displaying the reduced color depth that I`76 was released with. A lot of older games have color depth issues that prevent their running/displaying correctly.
Posted February 25, 2010
You have to run alot of older low color games in X in 16bit when using Wine otherwise you'll get the same kind of issues. Never bothered to run a Glide game in Wine but that's likely the issue.
The issue with palette corruption in Vista/7 is caused by the app/game wanting to run in 8bit color but the Vista/7 explorer corrupts the palette so that's why explorer must be ended. It was much more rare under Vista but with 7 it's pretty much a common occurence.
Man, the quote feature on these forums sucks.
Post edited February 25, 2010 by DosFreak
Posted February 25, 2010
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DosFreak: You have to run alot of older low color games in X in 16bit when using Wine otherwise you'll get the same kind of issues. Never bothered to run a Glide game in Wine but that's likely the issue.
The issue with palette corruption in Vista/7 is caused by the app/game wanting to run in 8bit color but the Vista/7 explorer corrupts the palette so that's why explorer must be ended. It was much more rare under Vista but with 7 it's pretty much a common occurence.
Man, the quote feature on these forums sucks.

I tried using the dgVooDoo wrapper in Wine - and I set the colors to 16bit with the appropriate texture memory flag - but the colors are still corrupted even then. Maybe it has something to do with OpenGL not running correctly in Wine, on my side.
Huh, I wonder why some people can alleviate the issue in Windows 7 with compatibility mode, and some have to kill explorer, then. Still, weird, but good to know what's causing the issues.
And I completely agree about the quote feature lacking.
Posted February 25, 2010
Just thought I toss this out: There is nothing on GOG's website about windows 7 support so they are not obligated to help with Windows 7 problems.
As for problems with the game, I am not surprised in the least bit. I tried getting Interstate 76 to install/run on Windows ME/2000/XP several times in the past with no luck. It won't even run on a Virtual PC running 95/98! I can only imagine the insanity GOG underwent to get I76 to work at all on XP/vista.
Posted February 27, 2010
I had the rainbow-road-and-cars bug, Explorer trick works for me too, Glide and D3D modes don't work at all (can't initialize hardware message), but then I'm running on a Samsung NC10 netbook with Intel GMA graphics so I was expecting that :)
Save these lines in a file called run_i76.bat in the same directory as i76.exe and run it instead to start the game. It shuts down Explorer, starts I76, then restarts Explorer when you quit:
@echo off
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
i76
explorer
Windows 7 BTW.
Posted June 28, 2010
Great post, fishybawb! I had exactly the same problem (also running from a notebook) and the bat file (killing explorer) made it work.
However, I don't consider it a solution, but a workaround. So I still await a reply from the tech support :)
Posted July 15, 2010
Solidsmooky you wrote:
I don't know whats going on but here is a picture of how it looks on my computer. I can't describe it besides the rainbow like textures i'm having and I have no idea how to change it :( Please help me :(
http://i49.tinypic.com/2z5ka5c.jpg
AMD Phenom X4 940 Processor 3.2 (or 3.0, I forget)
I have Windows 7 64
4 gigs of ram
ATI Radeon 4870
Why do they should refund if you have windows 7 ????
I can't understand why you make mess when you have windows 7 which is not supported??? It was your stupid move, you have to pay for it not them.
Posted October 21, 2010
Hi.
I can confirm this. Interstate 76 is now playable in Glide mode (i76.exe -glide) with nGlide wrapper 0.94.

Src here:
http://www.emucr.com/2010/10/nglide-v094.html#comments
Posted November 20, 2010
@frilled

Thanks a lot! that worked for me. I used the dll from Catalyst 9,5 & made a bat file to kill explorer. Now it works 100% & I've tried practically everything else. Even with the latest drivers install for my Radeon 4000 serieis card it works great.

Here's the 2 batch files I made for my installation:

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe"
cd ".\Interstate 76\"
i76.exe -glide
start explorer.exe

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe"
cd ".\Interstate 76 Nitro Pack"
nitro.exe -glide
start explorer.exe
Post edited November 20, 2010 by gabtrat
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