Hi, thank you for all your help. I got the patch for Jardinains and
set the compatibility mode to 640x480 but no luck. I can see the
resolution changing and the screen goes black, but then everything goes
slowly back to normal - no game. I just checked in my display
properties and my flat panel can't even be changed to that resolution.
Viewsonic vp201s. The default is 1600x1200. In display properties the
smallest showing is 800x600. Is that the problem do you think? If so
I will have to wait and hope that he updates the game.

Alix


Jimmy S. wrote:
> Great link! Thanks for helping out Chris. :-)
>
> Looks like they have an upgrade patch:
> http://www.jardinains.com/files/jard..._2_upgrade.exe
> Also, try setting compatibility mode to use 640x480 resolution
>
> --
> Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
> Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
>
> Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
> MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
> My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
> __________________________________________________ _______
>
> "Chris H." <winxpnews@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:%23kFUFG$5FHA.964@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> |I don't have a solution for you, but was reading through the game FAQ
> | (http://www.jardinains.com/faq.html) where the program author states to send
> | him an email if you have problems. You might try that. He may have a
> | solution for you. Looks like a fun game.
> | --
> | Chris H.
> | Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
> | Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
> | Associate Expert
> | Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> |
> |
> | <alix.cat@gmail.com> wrote in message
> | news:1131842937.051185.316110@o13g2000cwo.googlegr oups.com...
> | > Hi Jimmy,
> | >
> | > No patch for Jardinains. It used to work, so I must have changed
> | > something when I reformatted a while ago. I have the latest video
> | > card driver. Perhaps I should be using the older one. Oh well. I
> | > will keep trying. Once something doesn't work I become obsessed until
> | > it is fixed. (Even if it isn't important). I usually play Jardinains
> | > near Xmas as the gnomes look like little Santas to me....
> | >
> | > Thanks again,
> | >
> | > Alix
> | >
> | >
> | > Jimmy S. wrote:
> | >> Hi Alix,
> | >>
> | >> Glad the DirectX problem got fixed. Has Jardinains
> | >> released a patch or update you might install with the
> | >> hopes that it might correct that startup issue?
> | >>
> | >> --
> | >> Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
> | >> Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
> | >>
> | >> Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
> | >> MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
> | >> My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any
> | >> rights.
> | >
> |
> |

Hi alix.cat@gmail.com,

Here's a couple of suggestions:

1. Try launching the game normally (without using the Compatibility shortcut).
2. Try changing your desktop to 800x600 and then launching the game normally.

I hope that helps!

--
Cheers, * Windows XP MVP Shell / User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
__________________________________________________ _______

alix.cat@gmail.com Wrote:
=================
| Hi, thank you for all your help. I got the patch for Jardinains and
| set the compatibility mode to 640x480 but no luck. I can see the
| resolution changing and the screen goes black, but then everything goes
| slowly back to normal - no game. I just checked in my display
| properties and my flat panel can't even be changed to that resolution.
| Viewsonic vp201s. The default is 1600x1200. In display properties the
| smallest showing is 800x600. Is that the problem do you think? If so
| I will have to wait and hope that he updates the game.
|
| Alix
|
|
| Jimmy S. wrote:
|| Great link! Thanks for helping out Chris. :-)
||
|| Looks like they have an upgrade patch:
|| http://www.jardinains.com/files/jard..._2_upgrade.exe
|| Also, try setting compatibility mode to use 640x480 resolution
||
|| --
|| Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| __________________________________________________ _______
||
|| "Chris H." <winxpnews@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:%23kFUFG$5FHA.964@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
||| I don't have a solution for you, but was reading through the game FAQ
||| (http://www.jardinains.com/faq.html) where the program author states to send
||| him an email if you have problems. You might try that. He may have a
||| solution for you. Looks like a fun game.
||| --
||| Chris H.
||| Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
||| Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
||| Associate Expert
||| Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
|||
|||
||| <alix.cat@gmail.com> wrote in message
||| news:1131842937.051185.316110@o13g2000cwo.googlegr oups.com...
|||| Hi Jimmy,
||||
|||| No patch for Jardinains. It used to work, so I must have changed
|||| something when I reformatted a while ago. I have the latest video
|||| card driver. Perhaps I should be using the older one. Oh well. I
|||| will keep trying. Once something doesn't work I become obsessed until
|||| it is fixed. (Even if it isn't important). I usually play Jardinains
|||| near Xmas as the gnomes look like little Santas to me....
||||
|||| Thanks again,
||||
|||| Alix
||||
||||
|||| Jimmy S. wrote:
||||| Hi Alix,
|||||
||||| Glad the DirectX problem got fixed. Has Jardinains
||||| released a patch or update you might install with the
||||| hopes that it might correct that startup issue?
|||||
||||| --
||||| Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
|||||
||||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
||||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any
||||| rights.

Hi Jimmy, I tried your two suggestions but no luck. I just looked on
the Jardinains page again and found this:
Problems running the game:
Your display can't handle 640x480. This is a rare case, since virtually
all computer displays can run at 640x480, but there are a few LCD
screens out there that don't handle this resolution. Try setting your
display to 640x480 using the "Display" control panel; if you can't set
your screen to that resolution manually, then Jardinains! won't be able
to do it, either. Contact your computer maker's tech support line to
get help resolving this issue.
I guess I should be emailing Viewsonic?

Thanks again,

Alix

Jimmy S. wrote:
> Hi alix.cat@gmail.com,
>
> Here's a couple of suggestions:
>
> 1. Try launching the game normally (without using the Compatibility shortcut).
> 2. Try changing your desktop to 800x600 and then launching the game normally.
>
> I hope that helps!
>
> --
> Cheers, * Windows XP MVP Shell / User*
> Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
>
> Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
> MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
> My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
> __________________________________________________ _______
>
> alix.cat@gmail.com Wrote:
> =================
> | Hi, thank you for all your help. I got the patch for Jardinains and
> | set the compatibility mode to 640x480 but no luck. I can see the
> | resolution changing and the screen goes black, but then everything goes
> | slowly back to normal - no game. I just checked in my display
> | properties and my flat panel can't even be changed to that resolution.
> | Viewsonic vp201s. The default is 1600x1200. In display properties the
> | smallest showing is 800x600. Is that the problem do you think? If so
> | I will have to wait and hope that he updates the game.
> |
> | Alix
> |
> |
> | Jimmy S. wrote:
> || Great link! Thanks for helping out Chris. :-)
> ||
> || Looks like they have an upgrade patch:
> || http://www.jardinains.com/files/jard..._2_upgrade.exe
> || Also, try setting compatibility mode to use 640x480 resolution
> ||
> || --
> || Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
> || Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
> ||
> || Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
> || MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
> || My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
> || __________________________________________________ _______
> ||
> || "Chris H." <winxpnews@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:%23kFUFG$5FHA.964@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> ||| I don't have a solution for you, but was reading through the game FAQ
> ||| (http://www.jardinains.com/faq.html) where the program author states to send
> ||| him an email if you have problems. You might try that. He may have a
> ||| solution for you. Looks like a fun game.
> ||| --
> ||| Chris H.
> ||| Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
> ||| Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
> ||| Associate Expert
> ||| Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> |||
> |||
> ||| <alix.cat@gmail.com> wrote in message
> ||| news:1131842937.051185.316110@o13g2000cwo.googlegr oups.com...
> |||| Hi Jimmy,
> ||||
> |||| No patch for Jardinains. It used to work, so I must have changed
> |||| something when I reformatted a while ago. I have the latest video
> |||| card driver. Perhaps I should be using the older one. Oh well. I
> |||| will keep trying. Once something doesn't work I become obsessed until
> |||| it is fixed. (Even if it isn't important). I usually play Jardinains
> |||| near Xmas as the gnomes look like little Santas to me....
> ||||
> |||| Thanks again,
> ||||
> |||| Alix
> ||||
> ||||
> |||| Jimmy S. wrote:
> ||||| Hi Alix,
> |||||
> ||||| Glad the DirectX problem got fixed. Has Jardinains
> ||||| released a patch or update you might install with the
> ||||| hopes that it might correct that startup issue?
> |||||
> ||||| --
> ||||| Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
> ||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
> |||||
> ||||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
> ||||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
> ||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any
> ||||| rights.

Hi alix.cat@gmail.com,

Yes. It would certainly be helpful to have their input on this.

--
Cheers, * Windows XP MVP Shell / User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
__________________________________________________ _______

alix.cat@gmail.com Wrote:
=================
| Hi Jimmy, I tried your two suggestions but no luck. I just looked on
| the Jardinains page again and found this:
| Problems running the game:
| Your display can't handle 640x480. This is a rare case, since virtually
| all computer displays can run at 640x480, but there are a few LCD
| screens out there that don't handle this resolution. Try setting your
| display to 640x480 using the "Display" control panel; if you can't set
| your screen to that resolution manually, then Jardinains! won't be able
| to do it, either. Contact your computer maker's tech support line to
| get help resolving this issue.
| I guess I should be emailing Viewsonic?
|
| Thanks again,
|
| Alix
|
| Jimmy S. wrote:
|| Hi alix.cat@gmail.com,
||
|| Here's a couple of suggestions:
||
|| 1. Try launching the game normally (without using the Compatibility shortcut).
|| 2. Try changing your desktop to 800x600 and then launching the game normally.
||
|| I hope that helps!
||
|| --
|| Cheers, * Windows XP MVP Shell / User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| __________________________________________________ _______
||
|| alix.cat@gmail.com Wrote:
|| =================
||| Hi, thank you for all your help. I got the patch for Jardinains and
||| set the compatibility mode to 640x480 but no luck. I can see the
||| resolution changing and the screen goes black, but then everything goes
||| slowly back to normal - no game. I just checked in my display
||| properties and my flat panel can't even be changed to that resolution.
||| Viewsonic vp201s. The default is 1600x1200. In display properties the
||| smallest showing is 800x600. Is that the problem do you think? If so
||| I will have to wait and hope that he updates the game.
|||
||| Alix
|||
|||
||| Jimmy S. wrote:
|||| Great link! Thanks for helping out Chris. :-)
||||
|||| Looks like they have an upgrade patch:
|||| http://www.jardinains.com/files/jard..._2_upgrade.exe
|||| Also, try setting compatibility mode to use 640x480 resolution
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||| __________________________________________________ _______
||||
|||| "Chris H." <winxpnews@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:%23kFUFG$5FHA.964@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
||||| I don't have a solution for you, but was reading through the game FAQ
||||| (http://www.jardinains.com/faq.html) where the program author states to send
||||| him an email if you have problems. You might try that. He may have a
||||| solution for you. Looks like a fun game.
||||| --
||||| Chris H.
||||| Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
||||| Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
||||| Associate Expert
||||| Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
|||||
|||||
||||| <alix.cat@gmail.com> wrote in message
||||| news:1131842937.051185.316110@o13g2000cwo.googlegr oups.com...
|||||| Hi Jimmy,
||||||
|||||| No patch for Jardinains. It used to work, so I must have changed
|||||| something when I reformatted a while ago. I have the latest video
|||||| card driver. Perhaps I should be using the older one. Oh well. I
|||||| will keep trying. Once something doesn't work I become obsessed until
|||||| it is fixed. (Even if it isn't important). I usually play Jardinains
|||||| near Xmas as the gnomes look like little Santas to me....
||||||
|||||| Thanks again,
||||||
|||||| Alix
||||||
||||||
|||||| Jimmy S. wrote:
||||||| Hi Alix,
|||||||
||||||| Glad the DirectX problem got fixed. Has Jardinains
||||||| released a patch or update you might install with the
||||||| hopes that it might correct that startup issue?
|||||||
||||||| --
||||||| Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
||||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
|||||||
||||||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
||||||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
||||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any
||||||| rights.