Map not appearing in Castlevania: SOTN

[dfk789]

Sorry if this is a repost, really. I did search, but most threads were about the sound not working -.-.

I've got everything working in the game, sound etc, runs smooth, looks good with the odd graphical glitch. But when I try to look at my map to see where I am. All I get is the flashing dot pinpointing my location, but not the actual map itself. Has anyone else had this problem? If so could you please help me out. Maps are quite important in this game >.<

I've tried making various changes in the video config. But I really don't know what I'm doing. If it's making it better or worse. If there is a config file someone could give me, or tell me what to enable that would be great.

Also just incase it might be a hardware thing, The graphics card im using is an nVidia 7600GT.

Thanks for reading and I hope I get some replies soon. Want to play this game!

[jonc2006]

your in luck, i just started playing this a few days ago myself and i had to make a few minor adjustments to my usual settings for it to work right. right now for SotN (only SotN though), i use the d3d dx6 1.76 plugin with these settings:

Plugin: Pete's DX6 D3D Driver 1.1.76
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

Resolution/Color:
- 1920x1200 Fullscreen - [32 Bit]

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 6
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 256 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limit: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 60.0

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Framebuffer access: 4
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: hardware

Misc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: on
- Full vram: on
- Game fixes: on [00000081] (ignore this)

[dfk789]

Ah, thanks alot for that. Just tried it out. Seems to work perfectly (The map shows up now :P) Thanks for replying so soon as well.

Off to play now.

[jonc2006]

no problem. if by chance you get slowdown or lag of some sort using my settings, just change texture filtering from 6 to 4 or just 0 to disable filtering altogether.