Once when I was playing the game, I paused in-game by hitting ESC and went to get some drinks (maybe 5 minutes). When I came back and resumed the game, the graphics changed, from, say, true-color to something like EGA (with dotted patterns as gradients). The game was still playable, but I was just curious why this happened, and only in the game window (desktop icons were still true-color). Only happened once so I can't recreate the scenario, but has this happened to other users as well?
Microsoft make there own type of drivers called WDDM 1.1 which sometimes the graphics card wont respond to these type of drivers , So that's why I recommend getting drivers of the manufacturers site.
You could tell me the manufacturer's name of your graphics card .
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It's NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M with 2GB VRAM (Acer Aspire 5755G notebook). I once tried downloading OEM drivers from NVIDIA but the system won't let me install, and since this notebook is about 3 years old, I didn't find an updated graphics driver there, so WinUpdate did it for me.
go to http://www.geforce.com/drivers and download GeForce Experience but since i dont have a nividia graphics card try and figure this out by yourself.
Downloaded and installed a WHQL driver (the only ones available), will play and see if the problem reoccurs.
Off topic: WHQL is also from Microsoft, no? Will it have the required OpenGL standards?
What do you mean?
Microsoft invented DirectX, it's their API, it's what they want people to use, it locks games onto Windows. Microsoft doesn't like Open GL because it competes with their API.
Open GL is an open industry multiplatform standard, GPU companies provide Open GL support in their drivers.
I know what they are, but when you play a 3D game, how do you know if this game uses D3D or OpenGL?
Sorry it's offtopic. You don't have to answer that if inappropriate.
If a game says DirectX version Y required, then it is Direct X. If it says Open GL Z.z required then it is Open GL.
You can't really tell by looking at the game graphics, both APIs support the same stuff.
Once when I was playing the game, I paused in-game by hitting ESC and went to get some drinks (maybe 5 minutes). When I came back and resumed the game, the graphics changed, from, say, true-color to something like EGA (with dotted patterns as gradients). The game was still playable, but I was just curious why this happened, and only in the game window (desktop icons were still true-color). Only happened once so I can't recreate the scenario, but has this happened to other users as well?
I play in the default windowed mode, BTW.
Did you click the "Super Secret Settings" button?
If that is the case, press F4 while in a Minecraft world to reset it.
If that is the case, press F4 while in a Minecraft world to reset it.
I did click on the "Super Secret Settings" button in the very beginning while browsing through menus, but there was no response. I did not click on that button though, when the graphics thing happened.
Didn't happen again though, maybe it was somehow resolved or maybe not.
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I play in the default windowed mode, BTW.
You could say that this meme stopped being funny over 9000 years ago
You could tell me the manufacturer's name of your graphics card .
You could say that this meme stopped being funny over 9000 years ago
You could say that this meme stopped being funny over 9000 years ago
Off topic: WHQL is also from Microsoft, no? Will it have the required OpenGL standards?
You could say that this meme stopped being funny over 9000 years ago
You could say that this meme stopped being funny over 9000 years ago
Microsoft invented DirectX, it's their API, it's what they want people to use, it locks games onto Windows. Microsoft doesn't like Open GL because it competes with their API.
Open GL is an open industry multiplatform standard, GPU companies provide Open GL support in their drivers.
Sorry it's offtopic. You don't have to answer that if inappropriate.
You can't really tell by looking at the game graphics, both APIs support the same stuff.
Did you click the "Super Secret Settings" button?
If that is the case, press F4 while in a Minecraft world to reset it.
I did click on the "Super Secret Settings" button in the very beginning while browsing through menus, but there was no response. I did not click on that button though, when the graphics thing happened.
Didn't happen again though, maybe it was somehow resolved or maybe not.