Author Topic: Black Images (Read 6343 times)

bmatt · « **on:** February 07, 2004, 10:21:20 AM »

I get nothing but black images downloading in the following modes:

Topo 2M, 8M, 32M
Combo 1M, 4M, 16M, 64M (All of them)

Anyone have any ideas about what would cause this?

Alan · « **Reply #1 on:** February 07, 2004, 11:49:48 AM »

It's a problem we're working on. I'm going to venture a guess that your desktop is not in 32-bit mode. TopoFusion is somehow not handling the color bits correctly for your video card. We're having trouble fixing it because none of our test displays have this problem (in all our available modes).

Alan · « **Reply #2 on:** February 07, 2004, 11:50:59 AM »

Could you tell us your brand/model of display adapter and the mode you're currently using (16/24/32)?

Alan · « **Reply #3 on:** February 07, 2004, 11:59:06 AM »

Also, what version of TopoFusion are you running? (the latest?)

bmatt · « **Reply #4 on:** February 07, 2004, 01:20:41 PM »

I was in 16bit mode for some prorgamming I was doing. Switching back to 32 bit seemed to do the trick. Here are my specs. I hope they help you track down the problem.

Topofusion 1.52.

Video Adapter:
Radeon 8500 - AGP - 128 MB
Resolution 1024x768 32bit 75 hz
DirectX 9.0b

CPU:
AMD Athlon 1.2Ghz

Thanks for the help.

Alan · « **Reply #5 on:** February 07, 2004, 01:42:17 PM »

So far it's been tough to track down. We've tried a variety of Nvidia, ATI, and Matrox cards, but have never been able to reproduce the problem in any mode. The people that have contacted us about it have either Nvidia or ATI cards.

Alan · « **Reply #6 on:** February 07, 2004, 10:32:43 PM »

A little more work and I've found out that it was actually fixed (no wonder it works on all of our hardware) but that the fix DIDN'T make it into 1.52. It will be in the next version though (and it is currently in the beta).