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Aquaria => Support => Topic started by: Clarth on December 09, 2007, 11:44:59 pm

Title: Colour problem in the demo
Post by: Clarth on December 09, 2007, 11:44:59 pm
Hi
I have a problem with the colours in the demo. For some reason it looks like it uses only 256 colours no matter what I choose in the setup, but all other effects and resolutions work as they should. The game runs smothley.
I have an AMD 3ghz with 1gb ram and a Radeon 9800 pro. Thanks for any help.
Title: Re: Colour problem in the demo
Post by: Alec on December 09, 2007, 11:46:09 pm
Maybe its running in 16 bit... Is your desktop set to 16 bit color?
Title: Re: Colour problem in the demo
Post by: Cless on December 10, 2007, 12:16:44 am
I had a problem with ugly backgrounds and lots of color banding within them. It wasn't that the game was running in 16-bit, it was that I had a bunch of override settings for 3D enabled in Catalyst Control Center (I have a Radeon X1950GT). I turned them all off and the game began looking as it was intended. :)
Title: Re: Colour problem in the demo
Post by: Alec on December 10, 2007, 12:17:45 am
Great to hear!  :D
Title: Re: Colour problem in the demo
Post by: Clarth on December 10, 2007, 12:24:04 am
Quote from: Cless on December 10, 2007, 12:16:44 am
I had a problem with ugly backgrounds and lots of color banding within them. It wasn't that the game was running in 16-bit, it was that I had a bunch of override settings for 3D enabled in Catalyst Control Center (I have a Radeon X1950GT). I turned them all off and the game began looking as it was intended. :)
Say, what did you change. I have most of my catalyst stuff set to the application to choose but I can't seem to find any that effects colour.
Title: Re: Colour problem in the demo
Post by: Cless on December 10, 2007, 01:11:14 am
Here's what everything looks like under my "All Settings" menu.

(http://www.tales-cless.org/images/offsite/ccc1.png)

(http://www.tales-cless.org/images/offsite/ccc2.png)

When things were messed up, "Use application settings" was unchecked for everything and I had everything set to the max. I'm not sure what in particular was causing the problem.

I can't say for certain what you are experiencing is the same as I did, but it sounded a lot like it.
Title: Re: Colour problem in the demo
Post by: Clarth on December 10, 2007, 01:16:50 am
Holy cow, I've fiddled with the controls like crazy but it didn't work untill I set them just like you. Thanks so much, now I can finaly test this game. Awesome.  :'(
Title: Re: Colour problem in the demo
Post by: emphyrio on December 10, 2007, 02:06:44 pm
To be a bit more specific, for me the culprit was the catalyst A.I. (enables performance optimizations); disabling or setting it to the lowest setting solved the problems with colour banding.