Screen while dead in EC

[Darkside]

My screen does this when I die doesn’t seem to matter happens on all chars it has been doing this a long time. Anyone else’s do this or know how to resolve it. I have to use the minimap to navigate while dead

 

[Lord Gandalf]

go to options > video/graphics settings > activate hardware death effect (as long as i can remember) and reload the game.

 

[Darkside]

I’ll try that thanks for the reply

 

[Groo]

open user settings > Graphics and uncheck "Enable Hardware Death Effect"

They really mean it when they say "Hardware Death Effect"

 

[Anon McDougle]

But why on earth would they have this as a feature....

 

[petemage]

But why on earth would they have this as a feature....

It's a joke. That feature once indeed meant using hardware accelaration. However, the EC is a piece of stoneage legacy code, using old technologies like DirectDraw.

Here's a nice quote back from 2014 on DirectDraw, I couldn't explain it any better:

DirectDraw was deprecated in DirectX 7 which itself is 14 years old. The API (code contracts between software and hardware) hadn't updated since, Software developers were advised to not use this interface for more than a decade. What you see is gradual abandonment from hardware developers and no effort put in compatibility testing by software developers.

Thus it's easiest to just disable the feature altogether.

 

[Lord Gandalf]

But why on earth would they have this as a feature....

because they kept an option to get the bug! isnt that just awesome?

 

[SteelRust]

Giving new meaning to the "Windows Screen of Death"!!!