Green Text?

Rabid_Llama · August 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">Being green is easy for hud text</div> Apparently Kermit's song doesn't apply to my HUD <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>
On both aliens and marines, all popup help and hud text (hive names, ammo recieved messages, etc.) show up green. You can tell the game is fighting it sometimes, as it'll show up blue/yellow for a second and then change back to green. Oddly, chat text is the proper color (blue/yellow names, orange text), but all the yellow in the scoreboard has turned green (the alien half of it)

Anybody else have this problem or have a fix? Running NS on a 9700 Pro, windowed, 1024X768, win2k.
I'll give fullscreen mode and updating drivers a shot right now, but I doubt it'll help...

theSteve · August 2003

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one with this problem.

I'm running

GeForce 4 ti4200
Win XP
Fullscreen 1024x768
OpenGL
HL Retail

Damn green text.

Also, my health and energy bars are dimmed almost to the point where I can't see em.

Reinstalling doesn't fix (no i didn't reinstall half-life...)

-stevo

Max · August 2003

This is a known problem, but we haven't figured out the cause yet. What kind of monitor do you have?

Max

MonsieurEvil · August 2003

Do you have 2 monitors? NS has problems when you run with 2 monitors. Disable or disconnect one while playing NS.

Gimpy_Doodly_Doo · August 2003

I have 2 moniters, well a tv and a moniter, and It did this to me one time too. But I was not the only one, it was the whole server, and The admin said he did not do anything to it to make it do that. I do have con_color 0 200 55 set, so I thought it might be that at first, but then I asked and others said that it was like that for them too.

Align · August 2003

This might be somewhere in titles.txt, I remember being able to change font there... lemme check.
EDIT:...seems like it's the very first in the .txt. Go to your Half-Life\ns directory, and find "titles.txt" there. Open it. Should be visible immediately, although im not sure this does the desired action, I'll test it right now.

EDIT2: Or not. It seems only able to change transparency(and that's between nothing and normal), at least for me.

theSteve · August 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MonsieurEvil @ Aug 17 2003, 12:59 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Do you have 2 monitors? NS has problems when you run with 2 monitors. Disable or disconnect one while playing NS.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
oh... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'> well..that's dumb.

i kinda like my 2 monitors.. and i don't terribly <b>want</b> to have to turn it off when i play ns..

i use my second monitor to have a Gametiger player search on constant refresh for people wearing my clan tag...

and the only time when i really need a second monitor is WHILE i'm playing games <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

Thansal · August 2003

well NS borks with 2 moniters, we don't know why but it does

sorry mate.

hehe, quick solution would be to drag in an elcheapo comp and plug it in to the second moniter for game tigger purposes <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

theSteve · August 2003

laf .. the whole reason i set up a second monitor on my <i>PRIMARY</i> comp is cuz i didn't want to have to have mIRC AND gametiger on my el-cheapo computer (<i>SECONDARY</i> comp)..

.. and before anyone suggests I instead run 2 monitors off the el-cheapo comp ... i don't have an extra video card to do so. both monitors on my primary comp are running off of one video card.

seems i've run out of options... PLUS.. now ns just up-and-closes on me for no apparent reason.. so the green thing isn't much of an issue now, seeing as i can't play the game <b>at all</b>, laf.

Thansal · August 2003

well look, we can't help you if you don't take the only known solutions

for now I would suggest disabling the second moniter and seeing if NS will run at all

if not then come back and start a NEW thread with all your info again, and SPECIFIC about this ctd, k? thanks

MonsieurEvil · August 2003

And then learn to code a game so that you are qualified to say things are 'dumb' in your cool leetspeek.

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