Screenshot posting help!

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Offline vdweller

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Screenshot posting help!
« 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 (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?
« Last Edit: May 23, 2010, 10:46:39 by vdweller »

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Re: Screenshot posting help!
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2010, 10:28:53 »


Well, um... yeah.
It sort of doesn't display at all. :/
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Re: Screenshot posting help!
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2010, 12:37:53 »
Spoiler: I'm getting this. (click to show/hide)
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Re: Screenshot posting help!
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2010, 12:46:38 »
I'm not dead. Not entirely. And yes, I'm embarrassed by most of the posts I made here.
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Re: Screenshot posting help!
« Reply #5 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.

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Re: Screenshot posting help!
« Reply #6 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)
Spoiler: (click to show/hide)
:hs::hs::hs::hs::fish::hs::hs::hs::hs:
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Re: Screenshot posting help!
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2010, 15:06:55 »
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 :)

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Re: Screenshot posting help!
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2010, 15:10:22 »
Spoiler: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (click to show/hide)

Looks fine here, no scaling problems.
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Re: Screenshot posting help!
« Reply #9 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.

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Re: Screenshot posting help!
« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2010, 18:33:37 »
Here's mine

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Re: Screenshot posting help!
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2010, 00:03:49 »


Yes, it's hard to scale an image to 200%. Done it before, took weeks. :P2

Re: Screenshot posting help!
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2010, 00:48:59 »
That one has a diagonal line. Cool.
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Re: Screenshot posting help!
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2010, 20:58:08 »
I get exactly the same as Razzorman.
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