Hi,

Recently I reinstalled the Patrician III on my desktop and run in to a problem. The main menu in game is only partially displayed, left bottom square of the book menu is visible and rest of the screen is gone, black. The cursor leaves trail when moved and other menus keep on blinking/flashing when accessed. When I start the game in town cursor and animations of people, animals leave trails/smudges behind and when screen is moved it all glitches and brakes down in to a puzzle like mess. Every square of the puzzle renders something different. Long time ago I run in to that problem but there was a fix on old ascaron forum I think. It had something to do with the way the modern cards rendered text or the way morphological filtering works on newer drivers, I'm not exactly sure.

If there is any one who has run in to the same problem and found a fix for it please let me know.

P.S. I run the game in windows xp comp mode. all the resolution tests done by game are working fine I didn't have to use reg fix.

SYS SPEC:

win7
amd r9 200 series
i7 940
12GB RAM

Try win98 compatibility, its the more native one for the game and can solve some speed problems caused by multicore processors (every area doing something different is kind of a speed problem, if you squint a lot)

The widescreen/hi-res patching seems also capable of solving weird graphic problems.

Thats all from a quick search, maybe I can dig up something else later.

Thank you for your quick response! I tried all the compatibility modes listed but windows 98/95 compatibility crashes the game.