Main menu all wonky in BG and SI?!?!!11!1ONE

[captain_thunderpants]

I got the latest snapshot and I haven't seen anyone complain here about this yet (or maybe I'm just skimming through the topics too quickly), but has anyone else had the problem where the main menu (both in BG and SI, not the Exult main menu) doesn't show the options or the mouse cursor? Then when I try to move the mouse around, the invisible cursor will reveal parts of the menu options as it moves over them, but the cursor itself still won't show. I managed to get a new game started to see how gameplay works, when I open up the paperdoll it's the same. I'd bug report it, but it could just be an nVidia issue (I'm about to see how updating the driver does) and submitting a savegame would be pointless. Give me your thoughts on the matter.

[Darkstar]

Works fine here (just checked). Probably your drivers. Try setting the environment variable "SDL_VIDEODRIVER" to "windib" before starting Exult, this fixed some issues for me in the past (though it is probably slower). Or try lowering the hardware acceleration of your graphics card in the "advanced" tab of the windows display settings.

For the walkthrough, have you tried Google?

-Darkstar

[SepiaAndDust]

Usually that happens to me when I've got a video mode selected that's unsupported. I just change it manually in the .cfg. Hasn't happened since I used Dom's fullscreen patch, though.

[Gadget2006]

Can someone please direct me to Dom's fullscreen patch? I have the same issues as mentioned in this thread - the main menu, while in full screen, goes berserk in both BG and SI (and the main menu before that). If there's some kind of a fullscreen patch that resolves the problem, I'd like to give it a try.

[Gadget2006]

Oops, sorry, nevermind - found a solution to the problem.

[AJ]

What was it?

[Gadget2006]

I set the SDL_VIDEODRIVER to "directx" prior to launching the game executable and it fixed the problem. Now I can play the game in full screen in 320x200 with Hq3x in 3x mode without any problems

Basically, I created Exult.bat in the Exult folder with the following contents:

set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=directx
Exult

Then I just ran Exult.bat instead of Exult.exe. I found this suggestion in the other thread dedicated to full-screen problems, it's very helpful.