Blue Screen Panel

[Sea Beach]

I have a Sony AIO Laptop with Windows 7, I installed BVE 4, managed to get it compatable with W7 with a few mods and downloads of softwares. BVE works fine, loads routes and everything, but theres one problem, in the Window Panel, its a blue screen, so I cant see where im going, I can see the panel itself, its just the window, its a blue screen. Any help on how I can get this fixed would be appreciated.  And BTW, my graphic card is compatable, its the right one so its not that.

[bve]

Reinstall the train. If that fails reinstall BVE4.

[Dj Hammers]

That is a common glitch with older graphics cards and drivers. The blue screen is actually supposed to be a transparency (see through window).

Try updating your graphics drivers, running the program in windows XP mode, or both.
Could you post your computer specs?





When I first started out playing BVE around 2003/2004, I played it on an old Compaq Presario from 1998. It had an old ATI Rage graphics card in it that didn't support transparencies. Needless to say I could only drive the oldest trains like the original R32. I was pretty young back then (still in elementary school) so I really didn't know that the problem was my graphics card.

[Sea Beach]

That is a common glitch with older graphics cards and drivers. The blue screen is actually supposed to be a transparency (see through window).

Try updating your graphics drivers, running the program in windows XP mode, or both.
Could you post your computer specs?





When I first started out playing BVE around 2003/2004, I played it on an old Compaq Presario from 1998. It had an old ATI Rage graphics card in it that didn't support transparencies. Needless to say I could only drive the oldest trains like the original R32. I was pretty young back then (still in elementary school) so I really didn't know that the problem was my graphics card.

Should I reinstall BVE 4? and how do i run in XP?

[bve]

Windows 7 Professional or better should have XP mode available.

[Dj Hammers]

run the program in "windows XP compatibility mode".
Open up the properties for the BVE4 application file and navigate through the tabs in that window to the tab where you can set the program for windows XP compatibility.
Sorry that I can't go in to detail, im on a mac.

[Sea Beach]

Tried reinstalling BVE 4, didnt work, and I tried running as XP but it wasnt in the tabs, XP is no longer in my PC. 

[dman1455]

Try BVE2 it works better sometimes.. and I think it's a bit better then BVE4
BTW What kind of Graphics card do you have?

[Sea Beach]

Try BVE2 it works better sometimes.. and I think it's a bit better then BVE4
BTW What kind of Graphics card do you have?

BVE2 works!  I have ATI, sumthing like that

[Bombardier01800]

Tried reinstalling BVE 4, didnt work, and I tried running as XP but it wasnt in the tabs, XP is no longer in my PC.

It doesn't have to be on your PC, just right click BVE4 > Properties, go on the compatibility tab, check the box Run this program in compatibility mode for, and then from the dropdown, select Windows XP (Service Pack2)

[YankeesPwnMets]

Try BVE2 it works better sometimes.. and I think it's a bit better then BVE4
BTW What kind of Graphics card do you have?

BVE2 works!  I have ATI, sumthing like that

Try to give us your full specs. Easiest way to give computer specs if you don't know anything about PCs.

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