Rendering Issue Is It A Windows 7 Problem?

[Luke159]

I have recently been testing the new beta patch out for GOF 2. Anyway I was onboard the ship in the harbour when after 2 or 3 minutes the screen froze, I checked the logs and I got this same message been repeated over and over (roughly about 20+ entries).

DX8RENDER::LockVertexBuffer
The device is lost and cannot be restored at the current time, so rendering is not possible

 

[Hylie Pistof]

That is a very rare problem. So rare that I can not remember exactly what causes it.

It could be a corrupt install.

It could be corrupt video card drivers.

It could be a video card going bad.

It could be a power supply going bad and not supplying quite enough power. I had this problem some years ago and replaced a perfectly good video card before figuring it out. I also have a new PSU on the way and it is supposed to be delivered this evening. It seems they slowly wear out and lose power over a period of years.

 

[Luke159]

Thanks, I found the problem in engine.ini I forgot to change the value from 1 to 0 for winnowed mode. I will test soon to make sure that was the problem, I expect it to because when I play a game it tries to minimise it and COAS is known for crashing when been minimised in less the value I pointed out above is done.