Video Card Squealing -- FIXED!!!

[Sonoboy]

I just found a fix to that squealing video card problem!

Go into dangerouswaters.ini and under the graphics section, change the .SoftwareCursor value from No to Yes.

I hope this works for the rest of you as it did for me.

[porphy]

Yes! it works :up: Finally I can run DW without feeling like the gfx card is about to melt or something. Really big cudos for finding this one!

Cheers Porphy

[Dr.Sid]

Wow .. I'm really curious what does the option really do and why is it making card sing.

[Sonoboy]

I was looking throught the graphics section of the ini file to see if there was something that could fix the issue. It was like I had a vision from a divine entity and I was positive it would work. Kinda scared me a little when it did.

Anyways, I'm just happy to share the results.

[goldorak]

I just found a fix to that squealing video card problem!

Go into dangerouswaters.ini and under the graphics section, change the .SoftwareCursor value from No to Yes.

I hope this works for the rest of you as it did for me.


Did you read this thread (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=104850) ?
I had hypothised that the "squealing video card" problem was due to the mouse but nobody though that was the origin of the problem. :shifty:


Are you using an optical mouse ?



I don't know if this screeching is related to the graphics card but I had a similar problem and it was linked to the mouse.
I used to use the mouse (optical mouse, no led, laser one) in "hardware mode" in dw and would get a high pitch during during gameplay.
Realised that by enabling "software mode" for the mouse would eliminate that high pitch sound.

[porphy]

Hi goldorak

I read about your tip, but couldn't find any place to change settings to "software" for my mouse, I thought I was supposed to to enable in the settings for mouse in xp control panel or something like that. I Didn't realise it was an option in the DW ini file, but now I know better and hopefully more people will have this problem solved.

cheers Porphy

[Sea Demon]

So how do we actually do this? Where is this .ini file located? What do we use to open up and edit this file?

[Sonoboy]

The dangerouswaters.ini file is in the Dangerous Waters main directory. You open it with any text editor.

[Sea Demon]

Well I'll be darned. It works. Thanks Sonoboy. :up:

Maybe this should be a sticky for anybody else who might like to try this fix.

[Dr.Sid]

And posted on official Tech Support forum, Tiger, it's your job ;)