video / screensaver question

[richyrich888]

Hi, i have found that the menu transitions run much smoother on my set-up when i set the colour to 16bit. however this seriously down-grades the quality of start up movie and any movies used in the screen saver. ..is there anyway to have the menu display in 16 bit and the movies played in 32 bit ?

thanks, Rich.

ps am using an older version of gameex i like the old style menu transitions where the text all moves off the side of the page at the same time.

[Tom Speirs]

There is no way to do that, but you can still have those menu transitions in the latest version.

Unless your using really old hardware it may be a bug thats stopping the menu transitions running smooth.

[richyrich888]

There is no way to do that, but you can still have those menu transitions in the latest version.

Unless your using really old hardware it may be a bug thats stopping the menu transitions running smooth.

Many thanks for fast reply, have tried just about everything i can think of but not having much luck. Don't think it is hardware related as am running on ibm thinkcentre p4 ht 3ghz 2g ram ati x700. xp sp2 Have worked around it for now by making a batch file run at start-up which sets colour to 32bit then starts vlc media player fullscreen and plays the intro video, when its done it changes the colour back to 16bit and starts GameEx. so start vid good, menu transitions good, just some screen saver videos not so good. (can live without them for smooth menu movement)

I think the problem may have to do with the video codec i am using. I have had problems with fddshow codec crashing gameex in the past, and am using xvid 1.1.3 ..can't remember exaxctly why it was that i set it up this way now, was either something to do with daphne emu running rotated or video snaps not showing without it.

am going to chicken out updating as have everything else just spot-on. (will try again when have another machine to try fresh install from ground - up )

was also wondering, is there a way to alter the aspect ratio of the media player that is used to display the videos when the screen saver is run ? ..I have the moniter mounted vertically in my cab and all the videos end up stretched "taller" than they ought to be.

Many thanks, -Rich.

[Tom Speirs]

I didnt realise you were running rotated. There is quite a big performance hit with that in GameEx. So it is normal. Unfortunatly I cant help other than to say ffdshow codec issues were resolved recently.