Sponge bob

KRU Shotgun · 15 Mar 2008 at 07:57

Hi there DL a sponge bob game from yahoo game house for my 7yr old daughter, in the game as u move the cursor theres a big pink square moves with it..... tryed updating the GFx drivers but no luck.
Also i,ve put it on the wifes laptop aswell & it works great no pink square...

Heres a Pic so u can see what my prob is... if any1 can help it would be much appreciated

Thx Shotgun

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh289/KRU-Shotgun/pinksquare.jpg

furnace · 15 Mar 2008 at 12:30

What OS are you running on the laptop and what OS on the PC with a pink square? Other than updating the graphics drivers, I suppose you could try compatibility mode for win95/win98... it does look like a driver-type glitch. The game probably isn't perfectly coded either

Try reinstalling the game and updating DirectX?

KRU Shotgun · 15 Mar 2008 at 17:13

furnace said:
What OS are you running on the laptop and what OS on the PC with a pink square? Other than updating the graphics drivers, I suppose you could try compatibility mode for win95/win98... it does look like a driver-type glitch. The game probably isn't perfectly coded either

Try reinstalling the game and updating DirectX?

XP Home on both.

KRU Shotgun · 15 Mar 2008 at 17:26

Updated the Gfx drivers & DirectX still no change....?

furnace · 15 Mar 2008 at 19:19

Strange..! I wish I could help more but I don't have any more substantial ideas :confused:

I'll have a bit of a stab in the dark though;

You could try setting up a new user to see if some application is starting up and conflicting with the game somehow. Failing that you always have a reformat but it's a bit extreme!

It's hard to tell if it's a hardware or software conflict, but it would be a really weird hardware conflict to put a pink square around the cursor. It means the transparent mask isn't getting applied. I think if it was anything to do with hardware it would be the drivers not the hardware itself, so really it'd still be a software problem, but you've updated the graphic drivers so...

Maybe try a full-on clean and update of your computer - remove unnecessary start-up things (mike lin's startup control panel helps) and update all of your motherboard drivers.

You could try it in safe mode? If it works fine in safe mode then it's definitely some other software that gets loaded which is causing problems, but quite often things run worse in safe mode, so...