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Deng Haowen
11-19-2005, 09:43 PM
Hi All,
I've been playing PK perfectly fine up till the Abandoned Factory when it went kaput. The screen is bleached out and next to impossible to play. I say "next to impossible" because I actually did play this way until the next check point to see if it cleared up after that, but it did not. I uninstalled and reinstalled, but no luck. Also, I went back a few saved games and played again and the Factory level did load, but it was very grainy and washed out. After a few minutes of play it became completely bleached out as before.
I have a Dell 2400 with 1 gig of ram and a Radeon 2900 SE 64 MB card. Like I said, everything has been fine up till this point. Also I have upgraded to the lastest drivers, DirectX before installing the game and I have also applied all the patches to 1.64. Since my computer is not too fast, I have been playing with practically everything turned down to the lowest settings or, if I have the option, turned off.
I will attach a screen shot.
This is my first post, so I hope this works. The game has been great fun up to this point.
Thanks,
Deng Haowen

T'krau
11-21-2005, 12:36 AM
Welcome to the boards, and...

...and a Radeon 2900 SE 64 MB card...
...you have a what?

Deng Haowen
11-21-2005, 01:28 AM
Hi, Thanks for the welcome.
I have a 9200 SE card. :confused: :o

Deng Haowen
11-25-2005, 02:07 PM
YES! I went out today and bought a new 256 meg graphics card (Radeon 9250) and the Abandonded Factory loads perfectly! :D With the upgrade in the graphics card, I can turn on the effects that I had previously turned off. Now, the game looks even better and I can play it the way it was meant to be played (well, almost. I still need to turn down some of the graphic quality). I am thinking about starting over again from the beginning, but then again, I don't want to battle the Swamp Boss again. :p
Deng Haowen

I am wondering why the old graphics card could not handle the Abandoned Factory level. It played all the previous levels with no problem. Even with a restart on older levels, they loaded fine, but the AB level never loaded correctly.
Strange.

DHW

Varus77
11-25-2005, 06:52 PM
Maybe it was a special problem on your PC because I've played PK the first time in Apr.2004 with an ATI7500 with 64Mb too and without any problems...