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gnm82
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Just lots of dots?

Post by gnm82 »

Hi,

Downloaded gforce and rather than seeing lots of smooth cool visulisations I can see the shape of the movement but its all in small dots.

Does any body know what the problem might be and if so how to fix it?

Have a new fairly high spec laptop running vista?

Help!

Thanks,
gnm82

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JayPro
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Post by JayPro »

Are you seeing this with every waveshape you encounter? A lot of waveshapes in the application do consist of unconnected dots, so that most likely is what you're dealing with.

Run the program again and toggle the Z key a few times to see if your problem is consistent with every waveshape.

At least, though, you seem to have it running in Windoze Vista, which is more than a fair number of other users have been experiencing.
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Post by gnm82 »

Hi,

Thanks for the response. Tried the z key to toggle, the out line changes. Have an image of what it looks likes, had to print screen to get it. Strange thing is if I take an image shot using windows media player when i open the image it looks like it should (i.e. full colours, no dots).

Will email you the image of what I see as I don't know how to put them onto this post.

Im rather confused!

Thanks,

gnm82
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Post by JayPro »

That output is most definitely abnormal under any circumstances. Just having a few dots haphazardly arranged *that way* is strange.

Tell you what: Since I'm a Mac user and don't know how to address an issue which may point to Vista having problems with displaying G-Force properly, I'll post your issue up in the Troubleshooting forum and include a snap of the pic you mailed me.

I'm almost certain that your problem is related to Vista.
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Post by gnm82 »

Thanks for that. Will look on the trouble shooting menus.
Strange thing is that I just downloaded white cap and it works fine??


Cheers for your help.
gnm82

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Post by JayPro »

Here's an update from what I posted on the Troubleshooting forum:

http://www.soundspectrum-forums.com/vi ... hp?t=6028
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Woody
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Post by Woody »

I had the same problem on my new Vista computer. Jason McKay from SoundSpectrum said to do this:

Lets try turning off Graphics acceleration in G-Force to see if this helps.
Please try the following steps:
1) Start G-Force Standalone.exe
2) Press SHIFT+O (to turn off OpenGL mode)
3) Exit G-Force Standalone.exe

I did it and G-Force works great now.
:D Woody

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