Jumpy!

**Captain Fishpants** · 08-03-2005, 15:10

Originally Posted by clayton ballentine

Why would my screen be "jumpy"? It only does this in Rome Total War.

A quick survey of the office produced the following reasons, some of which may be sensible:

Too many espressos?

Using an electric toothbrush while playing the game?

You need to de-gauss your screen?

Your refresh rate needs to be reset?

Your bottom is made out of springs?

A subliminal message that it's past your bedtime?

**Leonin Khan** · 08-03-2005, 15:35

be nice to clayton grrr

i dunno i think its your graphics

**antisocialmunky** · 08-03-2005, 15:44

Wow, clayton, I thought we left you in the desert with only half a canteen of water and a gun with one bullet in it with instructions on how to shoot youself you reached civilization.

If you didn't learn your lesson from all your previous threads, here it is again:

We need details if we are to help you. For example, almost all the questions you asked about RTW problems need computer specifications. You never told us what they were and we could never help you.

**gardibolt** · 08-03-2005, 18:14

My screen was doing this for a while after I played the prologue. I made it stop by setting the game to play as if I had Windows 2000 as my operating system (right click on the RTW icon with the game closed to do this). It's been fine ever since, other than a somewhat laggy cursor.

**pezhetairoi** · 08-04-2005, 01:45

gardibolt, were you playing on XP? I play on XP and it gives me no problems apart from the kaleidoscopic bursts of colour that were solved once I downgraded my graphics card driver.

**gardibolt** · 08-04-2005, 17:08

Originally Posted by pezhetairoi

gardibolt, were you playing on XP? I play on XP and it gives me no problems apart from the kaleidoscopic bursts of colour that were solved once I downgraded my graphics card driver.

Yes, I'm playing on XP. But if you tell the game you're using 2000, it's quite happy. Weird.

**clayton ballentine** · 08-04-2005, 17:10

OHHH, Rome Total War I am using Windows 2000!

It did not work.

**bodidley** · 08-04-2005, 03:11

Originally Posted by Captain Fishpants

A quick survey of the office produced the following reasons, some of which may be sensible:

Too many espressos?

Using an electric toothbrush while playing the game?

You need to de-gauss your screen?

Your refresh rate needs to be reset?

Your bottom is made out of springs?

A subliminal message that it's past your bedtime?

I was going to say that you shouldn't talk down to your customers, but I decided against it.

**antisocialmunky** · 08-04-2005, 03:50

Too many espressos?

Just a fun fact:

A high caffeine overdose kicks if you take 150 mg per kilo. For an average man, that's about 11 grams or approx. 11250 mg. That's about one-2 espressos per kg for everyone who wants to make a mental note.

However, to begin experiencing 'Caffeine Intoxication' only takes about 250 mg.

Symptoms include:

-Restlessness
-Nervousness
-Excitement
-Insomnia
-Flushed face
-Diuresis
-Gastrointestinal disturbance
-Muscle twitching
-Rambling flow of thought and speech
-Tachycardia or cardiac arrhythmia
-Periods of inexhaustibility
-Psychomotor agitation

However, if you do ingest the overdose amount, you may begin suffering form caffeine poisoning. This is not good. You could die.

Death by caffeine overdose is rare and has not been observed often. However, scientists theorize that it is likely to be similiar to truckers dying from too many stay-awake pills. That is, your heart ends up exploding or massive organ failure or brain death or any combination of the preceding. Your blood vessels would constrict from the effects of caffeine meaning cold and numb limbs, uncontrollable tremors and muscle spasms would take control as your brain died or all your organs fail.

Basically, it's not a pleasant way to die.

http://coffeefaq.com/caffaq.html#CaffeineAndHealth

Anyways, that being said, reinstalling's a good idea, reinstall direct X too. You may want to reinstall your video drivers as well.

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 08-04-2005, 04:01

I would bet on it being the resolution or refresh rate. I wish RTW let you fiddle with the refresh rates, but as it is since you cannot access this option it can be difficult to find the best res. I have a 19" monitor, but for some reason I experienced this problem with battle res's over 1280x960.

**Bartix** · 08-04-2005, 09:18

Originally Posted by antisocialmunky

Symptoms include:

-Restlessness
-Nervousness
-Excitement
-Insomnia
-Flushed face
-Diuresis
-Gastrointestinal disturbance
-Muscle twitching
-Rambling flow of thought and speech
-Tachycardia or cardiac arrhythmia
-Periods of inexhaustibility
-Psychomotor agitation
-Salient and agitated computer displays

The CA know what they talk about always!
(this in friendlyly joking tone)
I had streaky/flickery screen in RTW once or thrice.
Fix with resting computer 5 minutes in off mode and staying off maté.

**edyzmedieval** · 08-04-2005, 11:56

Originally Posted by Captain Fishpants

A quick survey of the office produced the following reasons, some of which may be sensible:

Too many espressos?

Using an electric toothbrush while playing the game?

You need to de-gauss your screen?

Your refresh rate needs to be reset?

Your bottom is made out of springs?

A subliminal message that it's past your bedtime?

It's good to see that fellow CA members have some sense of humour....