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Being Creative => Creativity Support => Topic started by: vdweller on May 23, 2010, 10:06:55

Title: Screenshot posting help!
Post by: vdweller on May 23, 2010, 10:06:55
Greetings,

I would like to help me on a matter of mine.
I am trying to develop a new game with Game Maker 8. It has a retro 2x scale graphical output, but on my PC it appears slightly distorted, as seen in my attachments.

I got a couple of nice, clean screenshots from the GM community, and thus I think its my PC only, or at least a small number of PCs where those graphics look glitched.

If you could please download the game .exe (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nvzznnmmntd) (it's 1,37 MB), run it, press F9 and upload a screenshot, you would be very helpful.

So, what does the game display look like on your system?
Title: Re: Screenshot posting help!
Post by: Razzorman on May 23, 2010, 10:28:53
(http://i46.tinypic.com/6o0js9.png)

Well, um... yeah.
It sort of doesn't display at all. :/
Title: Re: Screenshot posting help!
Post by: vdweller on May 23, 2010, 10:46:06
Opps...

Try this one:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nvzznnmmntd

Sorry :)
Title: Re: Screenshot posting help!
Post by: Razzorman on May 23, 2010, 12:37:53
Spoiler: I'm getting this. (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Screenshot posting help!
Post by: AClockworkLemon on May 23, 2010, 12:46:38
Spoiler: ATI mobility radeon GPU (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Screenshot posting help!
Post by: Dataflashsabot on May 23, 2010, 13:07:30
This is a problem with Game Maker's surfaces; it's a dice roll whether they'll work on a particular machine. The solution is to use a less horrible game development program.
Title: Re: Screenshot posting help!
Post by: Miss Paula on May 23, 2010, 14:49:09
or make an output that doesn't produce such eyesoreness like any of those screenshots look like at least to me?  :oops: X)
Title: Re: Screenshot posting help!
Post by: vdweller on May 23, 2010, 15:06:55
Quote from: Miss Paula on May 23, 2010, 14:49:09
or make an output that doesn't produce such eyesoreness like any of those screenshots look like at least to me?  :oops: X)

Well, no seizure-inducing grid, no test :)
Title: Re: Screenshot posting help!
Post by: Vegetal Gibber on May 23, 2010, 15:10:22
Spoiler: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (click to show/hide)

Looks fine here, no scaling problems.
Title: Re: Screenshot posting help!
Post by: vdweller on May 23, 2010, 15:20:29
Hmmm...I have a Radeon HD4870. I can see no pattern at your screenshots. Maybe there's no guarrantee after all that the game will appear properly.

I will try to draw the screen in 1x, then draw onto a surface and then stretch 2x.
Title: Re: Screenshot posting help!
Post by: GrayFace on May 23, 2010, 18:33:37
Here's mine
Title: Re: Screenshot posting help!
Post by: Looki on May 24, 2010, 00:03:49
(http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/2682/gm8.png)

Yes, it's hard to scale an image to 200%. Done it before, took weeks. :P2
Title: Re: Screenshot posting help!
Post by: Purple Pineapple on May 24, 2010, 00:48:59
That one has a diagonal line. Cool.
Title: Re: Screenshot posting help!
Post by: J on May 24, 2010, 20:58:08
I get exactly the same as Razzorman.