RTW demo conclusions: a full summary

[Red Harvest]

Frogbeastegg and Blodrast,

I am having some difficulty nailing down the oddity with flashing orange triangles on ATI cards. I had it with the default options in 32 bit and 1024x768 and then I had it appear once with higher 1200 and higher detail settings, then I changed settings a bit and it disappeared. I couldn't get it to occur again no matter what I changed--including reboots between. I'm running 4.7 Cats with 98SE at the moment. When if first happened and was bad I noticed "reflections/glints" was disabled in the battle menu, even though I had enabled it in the main menu video options. I also turned up all effects other than anti-aliasing in main menu. One thing I am sure of is that the main menu video options don't always carry over into the battle menu options. In particular I notice the "high quality shadows" are often unchecked in the battle menu, although checked in the main menu. There seems to be some sort of bug in the game interface for these vid settings. I can only conclude that it is an initialization problem that occurs intermittently. It could be driver related, but the mismatch in game settings suggests it is the application at fault. I can't seem to cause or eliminate the problem systematically, so I'm stumped at the moment.

[Blodrast]

thank you, Red Harvest.
I added to the list your point about options from the main menu not carrying over to the in-game menu.
I'm afraid I can't help with the ATI cards; as I said, I don't have access to one myself.