Hi guys,

The original Rayman game used the old and faithful platformer game eye candy trick where the background layers are moving at different speeds, giving an illusion of depth. This would be visible, for example, in the water plants in Pink Plant Woods levels being separate from the rest of the background and in the first Band Land level the big harps with the land they stand on moving at different speed as the sky.

GOG version of Rayman Forever seems to lack this, and I am blaming the DOSBox adjustments, which make Rayman game believe that our computers are 486's or that there is not enough memory available (visible in the launch screen before Ubisoft logo). As I am not too good with adjusting DOSBox, I was wondering if there was a way of letting Rayman know there is more processing power/memory available, thus making the parallax scrolling backgrounds work. I would appreciate any suggestions.

I am not surprised if many people didn't know these parallax scrolling backgrounds exist in Rayman. A whole lot of computers back in the day didn't show them and didn't clarify that there was a possibility for this kind of effect.

I just tested if I could see any of these things moving separately from the background in a separate installation I have of Rayman Gold and that was not the case. However, I just found out that you can turn differential scrolling on from the in-game settings.

When you arrive at the start menu, go to Options -> Graphics Details. There should be a bottom option called "Differential Scrolling". This is set to "off" by default for some reason - change it to "on" and the parallax backgrounds should be there now. It worked for me in both Rayman Gold and Rayman Forever provided by GOG :)

EDIT: Please note that this setting does not exist when you enter the Options -> Graphics Details in the Pause menu. It can only be changed from the Main Menu.

Thanks Maurizio84 and Stockpile for showing me my own sloppy research on this one.

I figured out that the in-game graphics menu would include the same options as in the main menu. Obviously I was wrong.

Thanks again for your help:)

you're welcome ;)

it's funny actually since i had totally forgotten about this feature so wouldn't have even know of its existence if you hadn't asked about it, that's what happens when there's been 15 years since playing the game, lol

"you need to have PCI1 selected as video mode"

What do you mean ? Where ?