screen problems

[Jobmichon1982]

everytime i tried to play this game the screen flikkers and gives a full color distorsion (or however you write it)
Its a shame cause its such a good game but that singel thing.... i hate it



well anyone got a tip??
please let me know on my email!

[DarkMatter]

You probably need to give more info about your problem if you're looking for help.

[spaceman-spiff]

I had it twice already, normally I save, quit and restart

I think it's something to do with other running applications closing down , just a hunch, my anti virus stopped with a beep and my screen went all screwy

[Singaporekid]

I start at 800x600
When i get the problem, i just change the resulotion to 1024x768, and play
And when i get it again, i change the resulotion back to 800x600

[gryvix]

tried alt-tabbing out and back in?

[DarkMatter]

I start at 800x600
When i get the problem, i just change the resulotion to 1024x768, and play
And when i get it again, i change the resulotion back to 800x600

800x600?? Ewww....

[Mystic]

I start at 800x600
When i get the problem, i just change the resulotion to 1024x768, and play
And when i get it again, i change the resulotion back to 800x600

800x600?? Ewww....

I use 800x600 as well in Locomotion. I'll probably set it to 1024x768 if someone's able to implement a further zoom. I like to zoom right in and watch my trains and 1024x768 isn't close enough for me.

[DarkMatter]

I double-dog dare ya t' try 1280x1024...that's what *real* men play at!

[Singaporekid]

Ya 800x600 is ewww, but im getting used to it
Alt-tabbing also dosn't work
And if it happens in the game menu, i just click the two player button, it causes some kind of refresh and somehow fixes it

[Vimp]

Funny, I been playing at 800x600 this whole time because I hadn't noticed I could change the resolution. But as it was i found at 800x600 I was always wanting to zoom in further then it would allow and so now that I have tried it at 1024x768 and 1280x960 I'm all the more wishing there were some closer zoom levels.

[Wolf01]

yeah, now i have locomotion... i installed it and after some seconds the colors become weird, i changed the resolution, after some seconds the colors again become weird.... i think that is my old nVidia GeForce 2 MMX 400 that can't support well directX 9.0c

if someone has a solution plz post it

[Landquart]

I have the same problem. I use a Ati Radeon 9800 with the latest driver and am allways playing in screen resolution 1280x1024. After 5-15 minutes of gameplay the screen gets "blurry", all the colors change, especially lots of purple, yellow and green. When I change the resolution, I does not matter which, the colors become normal again, even if I do not accept the new setting (and continue with 1280x 1024). The annoying problem is, that I have to repeat this every 5-15 minutes. I just sent a email to Atari technical support, maybe I am lucky to receive an answer with a solution.

[Chod]

I would love to play in higher resolutions myself but the game just bogs down way too much on 1024 and higher and everything gets much too small.

[Mek]

hmm.. i have the same color problem sometimes when playing over vnc... but it's only in my vnc client where it wrong, if i just reconnect everything is fine..

[Coolsson]

Hi!

I had the same problem as you guys, the screen getting purple/green/yellow.... had to change resolution to get normal again.

It seems that Locomotion is extremely sensitive to other programs running in the background. For example:

I had a program called AR Tray Spy in my systray, a program that scans for gameservers. Everytime a server goes online/offline a popup comes up, Each time that popup came up Locomotion graphics crasched.

I removed the program from systray and havent had a graphic crash since.

I guess its the same thing with msn/icq that too have a similar system with popups.

Im gonna mail Atari about this and hopefully they make a patch for this awesome game that make it less sensitive to other (small) applications running in the background.

Cheers.