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Dracone

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Desktop Becomes Distorted When Minimizing
« on: March 18, 2009, 09:39:43 pm »
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I've had this problem for awhile now, and I just haven't much cared about it until now, when I'm quite sick of it.

I'm on Windows XP and I have an ATI Radeon X300/X550/X1050 Series video card (not sure why the numbers are displayed like that), though I'm almost certain that the video card has nothing to do with it as the problem began to occur a long time after I got this computer and threw Tremulous on it. It only occurs in Tremulous, no other games give me this problem.

The actual problem is that I'll be playing Tremulous and I'll want to minimize for one reason or another to get to my desktop or other applications. When I do this, more often than not my desktop will be distorted and most of it will appear fragmented and in small squares. I wish I could post a picture but I can't, as using Print Screen simply takes an image of how the desktop is normally, even through the distortion. Anyhow, my desktop and everything that might be opened on it is basically unreadable. The only way to fix it is to maximize Tremulous again by clicking a little ways to the right of where it, through the distortion, tells me the Tremulous tab on the bottom is. And I repeat this minimize/maximize process until I get lucky and my desktop comes up clearly, and this actually doesn't take all that many attempts actually, but it can be very frustrating. There are occassions where I have to do /vid_restart in Tremulous or the issue will not fix. The alt tab way of minimizing is no different either.

As far as I know, the problem started happening when I began using Tremfusion, and was still there when I switched to the MG Client. I cannot simply place the blame on either of those two clients, because I have no clue if it really is related to them or if it was an error that popped up from something else. Still, thanks in advance for any help I may receive on fixing this irritating problem.

P.S. I might as well also add that a much more minor problem I have is that when I am minimized and looking at my desktop, I will often click a tab on the taskbar, whether it is for Tremulous or another application, and if Tremulous is running my mouse will often just teleport to the upper left corner and I have to keep clicking what I want to see until it actually does it instead of doing that. It's nowhere near as annoying as the main issue I posted on, however, so don't trouble yourself too much in posting on this one.
« Last Edit: March 18, 2009, 09:41:41 pm by Dracone »
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Re: Desktop Becomes Distorted When Minimizing
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2009, 10:52:16 pm »
overheating video card perhaps? the fragmentation makes me think of that.

Dracone

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Re: Desktop Becomes Distorted When Minimizing
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2009, 12:33:08 am »
I wouldn't think so. This can actually happen while I'm at the menus, outside of servers.
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Re: Desktop Becomes Distorted When Minimizing
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2009, 01:34:48 am »
The mouse teleport bug is known and has been fixed in Tremfusion (but not released yet). Try this new client: http://amanieu.homelinux.com/~amanieu/tremulous.x86.exe (Also includes some new stuff)

I have never seen the messed up desktop bug, so I can't help you there. Maybe take a photo of your desktop?
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Re: Desktop Becomes Distorted When Minimizing
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2009, 02:00:47 am »
this is basically the reason 1.1 didn't let you minimize trem, you can't rely on windows graphics drivers to do the right thing.
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Re: Desktop Becomes Distorted When Minimizing
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2009, 02:07:22 am »
is it an HP?

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Re: Desktop Becomes Distorted When Minimizing
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2009, 01:52:06 am »
Do you have your screen resolution set the same in-client and on-desktop?
This may be the issue if print screen takes it normally, as the monitor has to switch refresh rate and DPI or whatnot.

Other than that I can't think of anything.

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Re: Desktop Becomes Distorted When Minimizing
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2009, 02:40:29 am »
I've tested that KillerWhale. They are different, but that doesn't appear to be the problem.

This monitor is pretty old, have had it and used it for 3 different computers that we've had over the past 8 years or so. Though I don't know if that's a huge factor. If so, however, it might just be time for a new monitor.
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Re: Desktop Becomes Distorted When Minimizing
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2009, 04:37:07 pm »
I have exactly same problem. It start happening when I bought new monitor and changed resolution from 1024x768 to 1920x1080. Also when I changed gfx card geforce -> ati, then after alt+tab and back to game I lose brightness settings in tremulous. I have to go to options, and click on brightness slidebar - he is in right position (in middle), but I need to move it atleast one milimeter. Then is brightness ok again.

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Re: Desktop Becomes Distorted When Minimizing
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2009, 04:48:57 pm »
It looks like this:

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Re: Desktop Becomes Distorted When Minimizing
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2009, 05:17:00 pm »
Woah, that's very fucked up. No idea what's wrong though.
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Re: Desktop Becomes Distorted When Minimizing
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2009, 05:39:07 pm »
One more screen. Sometime when I switch back to Tremulous, then appear this and only vid_restart, mapchange or restart Tremulous will help. Screen is flashing and fps is very low (about 16 fps in that screen). Normally 56 fps in same place.

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Re: Desktop Becomes Distorted When Minimizing
« Reply #12 on: March 25, 2009, 10:45:38 pm »
Ati has almost always had shitty drivers. So, it might be some setting. F.e. try to completely deactivate anything that has to do with MultiView, Multiscreen or similar. Deactivate virtual desktop. Probably best procedure is to completely remove the driver AND the catalyst center and just install the plain gfx driver.

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Re: Desktop Becomes Distorted When Minimizing
« Reply #13 on: March 28, 2009, 01:54:55 pm »
Well fortunately that is the problem I have, only it's not as severe as Rotacak's one. My screen just doesn't flash and I don't have to do vid_restart or anything to fix it every time. I also have the same brightness issue, which I've fixed.

Rotacak, as a little thing to help you out, I made a bind so that I didn't have to worry about the brightness problem. Only works in game though, so minimizing from menus still throws your brightness off.

Just do this:
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/bind (key) "r_gamma (unwanted gamma here);wait 10;r_gamma (gamma you want)"
And thanks Bissig, I'll look into those first options. Fully removing the driver isn't really an option for me.
« Last Edit: March 28, 2009, 01:56:33 pm by Dracone »
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Re: Desktop Becomes Distorted When Minimizing
« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2009, 02:53:39 pm »
Try downloading the trem 1.1 zip file, moving your home tremulous directory, and playing on a vanilla client for a bit.  Maybe just update it to TJW's build.  You probably know this, but you can run trem from the zip file.

You said that it may have started happening when you used tremfusion.  If you find it not happening on a (close to) vanilla client, perhaps we could tease out something from the autogen.cfg that could be doing it.

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Re: Desktop Becomes Distorted When Minimizing
« Reply #15 on: March 28, 2009, 05:55:53 pm »
Dracone: Thanx for the bind.

tuple: Vanilla client does not allowing alt+tab, you need tjw build atleast. And I have same problem but I never tryed tremfusion, only tremfusion server.

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Re: Desktop Becomes Distorted When Minimizing
« Reply #16 on: April 03, 2009, 06:10:41 pm »
i would try playing with the resolutions, it just looks like everything is pixelized. maybe a higher tremulous resolution? :S