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New version of DirectX?

April 15, 2006 7:14:39 PM from GalCiv II ForumsGalCiv II Forums
Just installed the April 2006 version of DirectX and now GalCiv looks like crap. Hard to explain the exact issue, but there are miscolored cubes all over the place. All the buttons have blocky corners now that smooth out when I put the cursor over them and block up again when I move away.

Sooo... should I be attempting to roll back to the old version of DirectX9.0c? My other games seem to be OK with it at the moment, so I'm not thinking it's a problem with my video card.
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Jim Frazer
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Reply #1 April 15, 2006 10:47:20 PM
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Well, I fixed the issue. Weird thing is, the source of the problem, I think, was my Stardock WoW Desktop skin. After switching back to the standard Windows XP theme, GalCiv's buttons and stars look fine again.

Just to test it, I turned back on my WoW theme and boom, buttons all blocky and squares around all the stars.

The new version of DirectX was the cause though, no doubt about that. Whether it was the interaction between DirectX April Edition and the WoW Skin, or that the new DirectX makes the skinner and GalCiv hate eachother now... I dunno.
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Reply #2 April 16, 2006 5:34:04 PM
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WoW skin uses a special windowblind version to skin
Galciv also uses some of this technology to skin itself

I guess there is an interference between each other
I hope this goes noticed by stardock crew, as this should not happen
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