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Newbie Joined: 19 Dec 2001 Posts: 4 Location: Sweden

Hello, Ever since I downloaded the latest version of Zmud (not the beta) I've had different problems. The latest is that letters disappear from my screen. They do not appear until I click on the window in question.
What happens is that I am playing on and entering commands. Suddenly, as the scroll moves up, several lines, seemingly with random intervalls, go blank. I cannot read anything that happens in the game unless I click on the window after each and every command I type in.
It starts after I've played for 15-45 minutes and then doesn't stop even when I restart the program.
I've considered it might be because of the buffert, but I have it at the preset standard number and that is as low as I am willing to get if I am going to get anything out of Zmud.
/Somewhat frustrated soon to be Gmud user

Ps: Anyone know if I can "unupgrade" Zmud? I'd rather just go back to using a program that isn't disfunct.

Apprentice Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Posts: 175 Location: USA

Odd, I've had no problems with the new one malfunctioning in ways like that. Upgrade yer computer.

For tomarrow is another day, and other days come but 6 times a week.

GURU Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 654 Location: USA

When upgrading, small corruptions in your .mud files have a way of getting larger. Best solution is probably to backup settings in/delete/recreate your .mud files and then import the settings you backed up.

Check out the migration guide:
http://www.zuggsoft.com/zmud/migrating.htm

- Charbal

GURU Joined: 24 Sep 2000 Posts: 1237 Location: USA

This sounds like it's a video card or memory problem, instead of zMUD or settings - since it's characters that disappear until you click on the screen. I'd check to make sure you've got the latest drivers.

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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2002 4:57 pm

I've just had a similar problem - forcing me to re-install

With mine the text ALL went AWOL. No text, at all... even in the prefences section with the sample MUD output... nada.

Very wierd... I hope this re-install fixes it.

"+++ OUT OF CHEESE ERROR +++"
"+++ PLEASE REINSTALL UNIVERSE AND REBOOT +++" - Hex

---> Burser

Newbie Joined: 19 Dec 2001 Posts: 4 Location: Sweden

Thanks for some constructive answers. I think I will try reinstalling. The suggestion to upgrade my computer seems rather odd to me, since I can't see why playing a non-graphical game would require more than 128 mbs of ram and a 500 mhz processor. As for graphical card, I have 8 mb which allows me to play 90% of the graphical games I want to play and if a client for a text game takes more than that, I'd rather pick another client than spend money on a new card.
As for the settings, I looked into the instructions and hope I can scrap the old the settings entirely since I have never used them.
Unfortunately I don't find the help-guide very useful to me. It seems that I need to know what the problem is caused by in order to have any use for it. It isn't structured after questions and problems, it's structured after commands and features.