If you’re after a similar game to Deep Quest, I’ve posted a few rts games over in the forums. You can find them in the games synopsis thread, which is a sticky on the front page. You don’t have to sign up to check the forums, only to post.

Regards

Stephen

What I meant by flicker is that the screen changes to whatever resolution it needs and turns black and rearranges windows and whatnot. Fullscreen games have always done this for me on all computers…

It’s a laptop computer, so none of those things really apply. I don’t think it’s the graphics capabilities (yet anyway) because I can SEE the game, it just won’t stay in focus. I’ve had this problem before in other games on other computers and was able to fix it by changing INI’s that set the resolution to windowed mode. Ah well, I guess I just won’t be able to play…

Thanks a lot for replying!

Games shouldn’t flicker when you boot them up. Do you have any problems playing other graphically intensive programs? If so, it could be an early indication that your graphics card is on the blink. I’ll describe what you can do to test whether or not your card is faulty below. However, before you start messing with your computer, try updating your graphics drivers and DX9.0. If these don’t cure the problem and assuming your computer does have a separate graphics card as opposed to just an onboard graphics chip, you can test this by isolating the computer from the mains supply and opening up the side of the computer. Remove the graphics card by unscrewing the cross head screw that keeps it locked in place. Don’t force the graphics card out. There’s usually a clip near to the socket that locks the card into the socket (unless it’s an older AGP socket). Once removed put the side panel back and reconnect to the mains. — Oh yeah, unplug the monitor socket from the graphics card socket before you do anything as well. Once removed plug the monitor socket into the motherboards monitor socket.

Try some of the less graphically intensive games to see if the flickering is still occurring.

Some motherboards don’t actually have a graphics chip installed. You can tell if the computer has a motherboard supported graphics chip by looking to the rear of your computer and seeing if there’s a spare socket near to where all the USB sockets are. Please note that most graphics cards also have two sockets now as well.

One final thing, if your computer is relying on just the motherboards onboard graphics chip, it may not have enough memory to run the program effectively. There are animations which makes the game a little more graphic intensive than other games.

I hope the above has helped. Please post any other problems or queries over in the games discussion forums in the appropriate thread. Thanks.

Regards Whiterabbit

Any help would be greatly appreciated!