found the full story about these video card problems at:
http://members.aye.net/~bstowers/delphi/bugs/generated/external.htm#478
and the *official* story at:
http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,19602,00.html
Looks like it's MS fault - there are Windows API calls for "Win32
DIBSections" that Delphi uses and that is what is crashing. MS products
don't actually use these functions, so that is why it only happens to
Delphi. MS probably put the calls in, documented them, but never used them
so that other people's software would look bad /;
The BusThrottle thing was mentioned there as well. With BusThrottle=1 and
no graphics acceleration things are pretty damn slow.
----- Original Message -----
From: gajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 4:25 AM
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Delphi 3 not working for unknown reasons
> Mike Mueller wrote:
>
> > We had a problem with Delphi 4 (Win98) where it was locking up on the
> > logo
> > screen. Strangley enough the fix (Bob found it by talking to Borland
> > for
> > ages and ages) was to reduce the hardware acceleration settings
> >
> > - press Windows Key + PAUSE
> > - select "Performance" page
> > - select the "Graphics..." button
> > - move slider all the way to the left (none). If it fixes the
> > problem, try
> > moving it to the right one step at a time until it doesn't work
> > anymore and
> > then go back a step.
> >
> > It's erratic - when I first installed Delphi 4 I had no problem. Then
> > I
> > installed it again & it was stuffed.
> >
> > Hope this helps..
> > Mike.
>
> Thank you very much for your help, Mike. Just a minute ago I've put the
> graphics acceleration to "none", and Delphi worked OK. The problem is I
> downloaded my mail only today (tuesday), when I already bought Delphi 5
> (but it got stuck too). Well at least I've upgraded to a newer version,
> that I've been delaying for a long time.. :)
>
> Hm.. but now the graphics so darn slow.. :)
>
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