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After a lot of time and with a lot of patience I've mangaed to make Realms of Arkania: Star Trail Work smoothly on my computer. But now I have the problem that each time I fight, everything goes fine, but after a few rounds of combat, I suddenly get a graphic error: You cannot see the characters, ennemies or any terrain features anymore, just the plain, brown tiles. Anybody experienced a similar problem? Any Idea how to solve that?

Backfish

Hello,
I get the exact same error, and I have no idea how to fix it. I'm running on WinXP, DosBox 6.3.
The problem appears both in full screen and in windowed mode.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Seems to occur to many people. No real solution I know of; you might want to try VDMSound or use an actual DOS machine.

[Scorpius]

I remember that there was a readme.txt-file with the game included where it said that if a machine has more than 16MB of RAM the game encounters problems. While I never had such problem when playing the game earlier on my Pentium 100 with 48MB RAM, in DosBox it might be different because it's an emulation and emulates not all parts of an old PC.
What you could try is to set the memory in DosBox to 16MB or 14-12, and maybe that could help

Hello Horseman and Scorpius,
Thanks for the input, those were good ideas, and I tried them out.
Setting DosBox memory lower didn't fix the problem. I went as low as 8 MB, I even tried a higher setting (32 MB), it didn't help.
VDMSound produced a different Problem: it wouldn't cooperate with my mouse (it's a Microsoft Hardware optical mouse). Any ideas how to reconcile VDMSound with my hardware?

BTW, have you people never experienced the disappearing sprites in Star Trail?

Use a recent cvs, perhaps the bug is fixed

[The Fifth Horseman]

I've been running it on a DX4/100 486 with 24 MB RAM without any problems. I guess that the bug might have something to do with the graphics settings or the game archive itself may be faulty.

Recent CVS? Please explain. Where do I get one, how do I install it? What is that, anyway?

A faulty archive? I got mine from here, didn't you too? Are there several different ones floating around? Where did you get yours?

Oh man, I so totally need to play this game... LOL

Oh, another thing... Scorpius, there was no readme.txt in my installation. Where did you get yours?

I guess they banned him. Might have something against him...
I had also a text-file in my installation of the game, not sure if readme.txt though. I have the entire trilogy on original German CD's, so there's anything on them, manuals and all text-files.