[kilith]

Originally Posted by admin

Interesting!

TKaraoke, do you have any other programs running on the same computer; particularly games?

I talked with our Sr. Programmer and he has no idea how to change DXDIAG. It is VERY DOUBTFUL that Hoster being installed is doing this. Try it and prove me wrong if you find different.

I disabled DXDIAG Direct Draw on my system, then CLOSED (very important) the DXDIAG dialog, ran Hoster 3.315 and screen redraw was perfect.

I enabled it again and closed the dialog, ran Hoster again and its still perfect.

To jog your memory, my system was farkled some time back after doing a change that I believe Ddouglass pointed out, and it never reversed back working right. Our Sr. Prog. refused to do this change to his so he never saw the slowness, except on my laptop. But now... I'm running perfectly.

We'll do some digging, but so far, this doesn't seem to be directly caused by Hoster... not to pass the buck, but that is our current engineering analysis.

I had to change settings and apply in DXDIAG and then close down hoster and open hoster to see the problem. Then I switched back and had to close down hoster for it to revert back to normal working state. I never closed DXDIAG at anytime of me messing around with hoster and directdraw but I seen the flashing and very strange looking draw of the words.

When I have directdraw on the words draw on the screen like they do if you use them on a CDG player. With direct draw OFF they just show up all at once. There is no smoothness in the draw of the graphics. but like I said I had to close hoster and reopen hoster to see the different affects. Yesterday when I did it I was getting flashing today I didnt see it but I only was checking if I had to close DXDIAG or hoster to see the problems.