[BUG] Video corruption on startup

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I decided to try Elemental on an old machine (in fact, the one I beta tested the original GC2 on).  It starts up with music and a screen on which I see the quill cursor, and a white band in the center with black above and below, like a letterboxed TV picture.  Then it goes to this garbage screen and never gets past it (at least for a couple of hours, I eventually killed it with task manager.

The machine is old, but does have a 128M ATI Radeon 9200 that supports DirectX 9.0c, and I downloaded and installed the latest driver I could find from ATI before running this.

dxdiag output is here:   http://pastebin.com/m1a016ec1

debug.txt is here:  http://pastebin.com/d2a996b85

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Unfortunately, the 9200 isn't a DirectX 9.0c card, it is a DirectX 8.1 card (see wikipedia), and so will not be supported by SD.

See here, for a dev's response to the same issue.