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<blockquote data-quote="ArnoldGoat" data-source="post: 193296" data-attributes="member: 51533">Blue2 screens all have the 'barcode' effect. Can you suggest a suitable alternative RC2 skin? I didn't spot one that was compatible. I tried Blue2Wide (even though it's a 4:3 monitor), but this made MP go mad. It locked up on startup and I had to stop it with Task Manager. By then it had created about 20,000 .png files in the skin cache folder of a white rectangle. I haven't tried it yet with the laptop client. I tried most combinations of the VMR9 settings, but the symptoms remain. The video card and driver on the 2 clients are completely different. The impact is different (see screen shots) but equally unusable. I saw a suggestion that it might be fonts? As it happens, the laptop had a hardware fault recently, and had to be reloaded from its recovery disk, so it should be free of any downloaded problems. (I did apply SP2 and the required MP updates since the recovery image was original XP).This is really weird. I go back to the thing that RC1 looks OK, RC2 isn't. I might try installing TVE3, as that is the only obvious difference, but I am not sure if it will load with no TV hardware.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ArnoldGoat, post: 193296, member: 51533"] Blue2 screens all have the 'barcode' effect. Can you suggest a suitable alternative RC2 skin? I didn't spot one that was compatible. I tried Blue2Wide (even though it's a 4:3 monitor), but this made MP go mad. It locked up on startup and I had to stop it with Task Manager. By then it had created about 20,000 .png files in the skin cache folder of a white rectangle. I haven't tried it yet with the laptop client. I tried most combinations of the VMR9 settings, but the symptoms remain. The video card and driver on the 2 clients are completely different. The impact is different (see screen shots) but equally unusable. I saw a suggestion that it might be fonts? As it happens, the laptop had a hardware fault recently, and had to be reloaded from its recovery disk, so it should be free of any downloaded problems. (I did apply SP2 and the required MP updates since the recovery image was original XP). This is really weird. I go back to the thing that RC1 looks OK, RC2 isn't. I might try installing TVE3, as that is the only obvious difference, but I am not sure if it will load with no TV hardware. [/QUOTE]

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