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Newbie Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 1

After I upgraded to 7.05 I started having this problem. The game will go along fine for a couple of hours, then suddenly I seem to lose the output text.. except for the highlighted words. If I run my cursor over the screen though, as if to copy the text.. I can see the hidden words. So, it's still putting the text to the screen, it just turned it black? Against a black background I can't see it. Though if the words turned black and the background is black, it seems that highlighting the screen would turn both grey, not turn the background grey and the words black. If I go to prefs and just click Apply and then Okay.. I can go back to the screen and it'll start putting the text to screen in the correct color. But, then an hour or two later the same problem occurs. Why does it do that and what can I do to fix it?

I couldn't get a screen shot of it. But, here's what'll happen:

Normally it's like this:

Youswing your dagger at the ork.
The attackis a strong blow to the right leg.
The ork is knocked back.

The ork bites at you.
The attack misses

When it messes up, I get this:

You swing your dagger at the ork.
The attackis a strong blow to the right leg. The ork is knocked back.

The ork bites at you.
The attack misses

As you can see.. only the words I've highlighted with triggers still show up on screen. The other words <shown here in white> are there, but since they are the same color as the background suddenly they just can't be seen. It makes it really tough in combat when you can't see what's going on anymore.

Jazmyn

PS. I'm also having trouble with Zmud lagging terribly when I move from room to room under full view (can see the room description) It lags for up to 30 seconds sometimes. I've had to put my game view to brief (only shows directions, exits, other people and monsters.. no room description text) in order to be able to move at a playable pace. Why doesn't it seem to mesh well with the MUD I play anymore? Back when I first bought the software a year ago, it worked fine, suddenly it's messed up with the updates. I play Dragon's Gate, is it just that MUD that Zmud has trouble with? Other Zmud users are experiencing the same problem with lagging.

Wanderer Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 63 Location: USA

might be a problem comming from the mud... maybe their connection to your area or ISP is being affected by somehting. everyonce in awhile ill get that, but all the words are black on black... or soemtimes not able to see at all.