Dj Dunc Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Hi there, I registered on the Z88 forums last night, but I dont think theyll be working today so cant accept my account. The trouble is, I need to run the phantom frog OLE to create a cue sheet over the weekend, as my portfolio needs to be in on monday. I downloaded phantom frog onto my computer, ran it, and it installed perfectly well. When I came to run it, it started up, with the words interface and something else, in a grey box, with transparent spaces for the drop down boxes. I looked on the z88 support forums, and it says that it could be a graphics problem, but I updated the drivers to no avail. Help ??? ;) thanks Duncan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Hi Duncan Can you post a screenshot of the box you get when you start the application? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dj Dunc Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share Posted March 24, 2007 http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l82/dunc2006/phantomfrog.jpg there is horizontal lines flickering up and down the box at times, but this doesnt show on the screenshot. Duncan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Hi Duncan It looks like you're running Windows Vista. At the moment Phantom Frog has not been tested under Windows Vista so we cannot guarentee compatability. I believe there is an option in Vista to run applications in legacy mode - it might be worth trying that. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dj Dunc Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share Posted March 24, 2007 Im not running windows vista, its just a customised background. Im running XP professional, SP2 with XP office 2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Which graphics card & driver version are you using? Also, have you tried running the application from a 'clean' startup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dj Dunc Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share Posted March 24, 2007 yup tried running a "clean" startup. I.e turned everything off that I could, no dice. im using a NVIDIA ge force fx 5200 driver version 6.14.10.9371 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 I'll perform some investigations and let you know... It does indeed sound like a graphics driver problem. Have you seen this behaviour with any other programs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Sorry, but I have to ask - if all you need to do is create a simple cue sheet, what's wrong with something like an Excel spreadsheet? Or, for that matter, an old-fashioned paper and pen?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dj Dunc Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share Posted March 24, 2007 Because I have the show file, but no desk available, as I need to do it over the weekend. so I need to read the showfile with all the data on to get the cues and fade times etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Edit: The drivers you have are dated 22nd October last year, so its possible there may be an updated version as a beta or release - this is worth double checking. My FX 5200 (which I stopped using in November) didn't exhibit this behaviour, so I can only imagine this is a problem with a setting on your PC, either in driver version or a background task causing the display issue. Once you start installing custom skins etc to Windows, its difficult to guarentee programs running 100% reliably. To perform a full clean boot, click Start, Run, Msconfig... select Diagnostic Startup and reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dj Dunc Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share Posted March 24, 2007 Ill try and download it onto one of my other computers (my 2nd is on xp without customisation) and see how that goes EDIT: Yea, that worked. It runs fine on my other computer, so I ran the phantom frog, loaded the show via floppy, and did a print screen of the monitor, and then transferred it back. many thanks peter and others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Out of interest, which custom shell are you using? That doesn't look like the Explorer shell as supplied by Micr0soft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dj Dunc Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share Posted March 24, 2007 Im using windowblinds version 5, with the skin called blackvistav2. I also run a version of winboot with xp irish edition on ** laughs out loud ** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_the_LD Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 Where did you download Phantom Frog? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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