• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Debug mesaage

S

safn1949

poet,traveler
What's up with this message that scrolls across my screen at times.I haven't played in a long time but don't remember seeing this before.It will crash to desktop most times after 3-5 messages.

I am running Xp on an older (6 years) machine.How do I check to see what is happening.Oh yea,and why does it turn the background tan color,that has happened over the years.:d
 
you might get better results
if you post this over at the Squawks forum
at least you'll get more views.

------------:kilroy:------------

I hope you don't mind,
I did it for you.
 
I vaguely remember that from when I still used CFS1...

The tan menus and desktop comes from a little hiccup in the DirectX rendering in CFS1. If CFS1 crashes, the menus and assorted other desktop elements will be drawn with that tan color (which is a leftover from the color scheme of CFS1) until you reboot.

Does it do this just after the game crashes or even after a normal close?

Also what video card are you running? Nvidia, ATi, or ???
I usually used Nvidia cards but I also had that "tan attack" happen back when I had a Matrox card on one of my early CFS1 machines too.
 
Moparmike said:
I vaguely remember that from when I still used CFS1...

The tan menus and desktop comes from a little hiccup in the DirectX rendering in CFS1. If CFS1 crashes, the menus and assorted other desktop elements will be drawn with that tan color (which is a leftover from the color scheme of CFS1) until you reboot.

Does it do this just after the game crashes or even after a normal close?

Also what video card are you running? Nvidia, ATi, or ???
I usually used Nvidia cards but I also had that "tan attack" happen back when I had a Matrox card on one of my early CFS1 machines too.
Click to expand...

thanks Mike, I also remember the tan relating to a CFS1 crash,
but didn't know the why, ie, a DirectX issue.

any ideas regarding his debug message?
probably need more information, right?
 
Here is a photo showing the video chipset.It's a small HP desktop 7410n.I have had the tan color happen on a bunch of different computers in the past.I installed cfo and TG-2 and if I had to guess,tailgunner is causing the problem with the debug and crash.

I will uninstall it in a bit and see.
 
safn1949 said:
Here is a photo showing the video chipset.It's a small HP desktop 7410n.I have had the tan color happen on a bunch of different computers in the past.I installed cfo and TG-2 and if I had to guess,tailgunner is causing the problem with the debug and crash.

I will uninstall it in a bit and see.
Click to expand...

I uninstalled TG and it crashed to desktop every time after that,put it back and it would run,here is a snapshot of my system including Direct X.This just a computer we run as a video server thru a flatscreen,nothing special for sure.

EDIT: I uninstalled CFS and reinstalled minus TG and CFO,I will try them 1 at a time to see who the culprit is.Runs great now.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top