Video Card Squealing -- FIXED!!!
 

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.

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

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

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.

Did you read this thread ?
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:

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

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

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.

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