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Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 03-19-2003, 01:37 AM
Replies: 139
Views: 67,669
Posted By thebard
Stunning - thanks Jim, I love the new fish....

Stunning - thanks Jim, I love the new fish. Working perfectly on modest Win98/P3/GeForce2MX, no probs at all & 70 plus fps.
Congrats on an awesome piece of work.
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 11-28-2002, 08:35 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 3,076
Posted By thebard
Happy ending. Running dxdiag showed things were...

Happy ending. Running dxdiag showed things were very wrong with DirectDraw. After DirectX re-installed, Aquarium's running nicely again.
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 11-17-2002, 10:53 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 3,076
Posted By thebard
On System Information, for the Display Adapter,...

On System Information, for the Display Adapter, twice it says IRQ 9 mask x FFFF mask & once it says IRQ 0 mask x FFFF
For mouse, it twice says IRQ 12 mask x 0000 & once it says IRQ 0 mask x 1000....
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 11-17-2002, 01:45 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 3,076
Posted By thebard
BTW I uninstalled Aquarium, re-booted &...

BTW I uninstalled Aquarium, re-booted & re-installed it, still the same.
Also just found vSync & turned it off, & my monitor's refresh rate is set to what it was before - Optimal
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 11-17-2002, 01:28 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 3,076
Posted By thebard
Aquarium flashing in blue & white

Aquarium was running great until today. Now it's sorta blue& white blocks & flashing violently. Guess this is h/ware related & I'm unsure of all my system details - Win 98SE, 800 MHZ Pen3, 256 MB...
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 10-09-2002, 12:38 PM
Replies: 288
Views: 146,831
Posted By thebard
i didn't know that 1st bit. Wasn't having display...

i didn't know that 1st bit. Wasn't having display probs, but got dismayed when sysinfo said that so many drivers weren't installed, & me about to do a clean install of Win.
Yes it does sound like...
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 10-09-2002, 09:36 AM
Replies: 288
Views: 146,831
Posted By thebard
Thx for explanation, & from yr link, Riva 128...

Thx for explanation, & from yr link, Riva 128 sure sounds familiar from when I 1st got this machine near 2 yrs ago. And I did read the thread where someone bought the wrong card cos of no AGP slot, &...
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 10-09-2002, 06:33 AM
Replies: 288
Views: 146,831
Posted By thebard
Thx for yr reply & the link to my present video...

Thx for yr reply & the link to my present video drivers.
We're talking at cross purposes here, had to do a clean install by myself very early in the piece & am backed up etc ready for this one....
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 10-08-2002, 03:06 PM
Replies: 288
Views: 146,831
Posted By thebard
teckie from hell I think

Not a friend, I picked up his business card in a bookshop! Sysinfo said 8 Diamond drivers were not installed, same with many others, this guy has rorted me in a number of ways due to my ignorance at...
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 10-08-2002, 03:55 AM
Replies: 288
Views: 146,831
Posted By thebard
Teckie from hell, I think

I'm trying to learn what I can in this forum, but I'm not savvy enough. Win 98SE, PIII 800MHZ, 256 MB RAM's all I can quote, Gigabyte m/board, nVidia chipset. Upgraded my display card last yr to...
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 10-08-2002, 02:11 AM
Replies: 231
Views: 102,673
Posted By thebard
Maybe more than 5 - 10% of users try Aquarium's...

Maybe more than 5 - 10% of users try Aquarium's "Settings" - it was the 1st thing this unsavvy user went for.
Fish Picker's marvellous, makes fish identification so easy now, thx for this
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 02-25-2002, 10:42 PM
Replies: 232
Views: 122,608
Posted By thebard
MusicMatch latest version?

Probably totally unrelated - just my 2c worth. I reg'd MMJukebox a year ago & thought it excellent - until the new release around Nov 2001. Performance was erratic - trialled MediaJukebox & bought...
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 11-17-2001, 02:53 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 7,511
Posted By thebard
Guess I was lucky

After reading Jim's post, I guess I must have been lucky. I'd read something in the forum some time ago & thought it meant that DirectX 8.0 would soon be necessary for the Aquarium [I probably didn't...
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 11-16-2001, 08:42 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 7,511
Posted By thebard
Wink Upgrade aborted

Thanks to you both, I feel better & have given up this nonsense. Plus I hate having to enable ActiveX anyway.
The last d/load attempt hung & quivered violently after it reached the 7MB mark so...
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 11-16-2001, 07:17 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 7,511
Posted By thebard
**##** Upgrade!!!

This is my 6th attempt at the DirectX 8.1 upgrade [8.8 MB]. I can't get it with the much faster Mozilla browser as ActiveX is necessary. And during the last 5 I.E. attempts, I've suffered disconnects...
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 11-12-2001, 12:53 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 16,916
Posted By thebard
New board is excellent, looks better than old...

New board is excellent, looks better than old one, improved features such a bonus. Can't begin to imagine the work this must have taken. Great job, thanks for this!
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 09-27-2001, 08:14 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 3,927
Posted By thebard
Windows 98 support

The nimda virus thread/patches thread broght this to mind. If you run Win 2000 or Win NT w/station, MS will run a security scan on yr system & advise what sec. patches you need. With Win98 you're out...
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 09-27-2001, 07:01 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 2,733
Posted By thebard
Serenescreen support in Lockergnome

Lockergnome is widely read & v. popular. I found this in the latest editin:-
Good Customer Service Still Exists (Advice)
Scribbled by Paul Wagner
www.serenescreen.com/...
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 06-24-2001, 01:06 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 8,827
Posted By thebard
Widescreen monitor or not - looks great

Wide-eyed at the "teckie" details,maybe ignorance is bliss
Tried widescreen v. today. Looks perfect to me, no black border[letterboxing?], didn't adjust anything, 1024x768 as B4,17" philips 107s...
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 06-23-2001, 07:23 PM
Replies: 61
Views: 21,579
Posted By thebard
Re: Version K is out

Of course you're right. Of course I hadn't checked the other little box - blush!
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 06-23-2001, 01:39 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 3,578
Posted By thebard
Re: Hardware Troubleshooters

Thanks for those links. I have found www.pcpitstop.com a great site, they were first to alert me to hard drive problem that eventually brought my PC to its knees. And I'll never trust Scandisk again,...
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 06-23-2001, 01:30 PM
Replies: 61
Views: 21,579
Posted By thebard
Re: Version K is out

Better late than never,h/drive failure meant I couldn't enjoy 99K until now[& I'll NEVER again lose my keycode,sorry!] V99K stunning & I always think each one couldn't get any better.fps increased to...
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 06-01-2001, 03:46 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 3,969
Posted By thebard
Re: More RAM or upgrade graph. card?

Thanks guys! I've played safe I think by upping RAM to 256MB & will wait a little longer before changing video/graphics card. Followed yr drivers link, & now that I've read other Q & A here on...
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 05-01-2001, 12:13 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 3,969
Posted By thebard
Re RAM/graphics

Thanks a lot - now I know which way to go. Felt hopeful
I'd get the answer here.
Forum: Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive 05-01-2001, 11:36 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 3,969
Posted By thebard
More RAM or upgrade graph. card?

Hope this right place to post this. Aquarium looks great,haven't tried 99J, going to shortly.Get 60fps,wondering how I'll go when all this 3D&DirectX comes in,willing to spend a bit to improvethings....
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