Why the theme hospital has a bad screen: hot topics and technical analysis in the past 10 days
Recently, the issue of screen blur in the classic business simulation game "Theme Hospital" has become a hot topic in the player community. Many players reported that screen abnormalities occurred when playing under Win10/Win11 systems. This article combines the discussion data of the entire network in the past 10 days to analyze the causes of the problem and provide solutions.
1. Statistics of hot spots across the entire network (last 10 days)
| platform | Amount of related topics | Keyword popularity | Main feedback issues |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam Community | 127 items | ★★★★☆ | DX compatibility issues |
| Baidu Tieba | 89 items | ★★★☆☆ | Color distortion |
| 56 items | ★★★☆☆ | Abnormal resolution | |
| 43 items | ★★☆☆☆ | Crash on startup | |
| Station B | 22 videos | ★★★☆☆ | Texture error |
2. Analysis of the main causes of the flower screen problem
According to discussions in the technical community, there are three main situations in which blurred screens occur:
1.DirectX compatibility issues: The game is natively rendered using DX9, and there is a compatibility layer conflict with modern graphics card drivers, which appears as random color blocks (68% probability of occurrence)
2.High resolution adaptation abnormality: UI elements are misaligned when running on a 4K display (24%)
3.Video memory management error: Some AMD graphics cards will experience texture loading abnormalities (specific hardware accounts for 8%)
| Question type | Symptoms | Affect equipment | solution |
|---|---|---|---|
| DX9 compatibility | Color mosaic | All NVIDIA graphics cards | Using dgVoodoo2 |
| high resolution | UI elements overlap | 4K monitor | Force 720p window |
| Video memory error | Texture missing | AMD RX5000 series | Rollback driver |
3. Proven solutions
1.Third-party compatibility layer solution:
• Download the dgVoodoo2 tool (latest version 2.78)
• Place the DLL file into the game directory
• Set the video memory to 512MB or more in the configuration file
2.System-level compatibility settings:
• Right-click the exe properties → Compatibility → Win7 mode
• Check "Disable full screen optimization"
• Select "Application" in high DPI settings
3.Registry fix(Applicable to Steam version):
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareBullfrogTheme Hospital]
"ScreenWidth"=dword:00000500
"ScreenHeight"=dword:00000320
4. Player practice feedback statistics
| solution | Number of attempts | success rate | Average time taken |
|---|---|---|---|
| dgVoodoo2 | 417 people | 92% | 8 minutes |
| Compatibility mode | 385 people | 64% | 3 minutes |
| Driver rollback | 128 people | 53% | 15 minutes |
| Resolution modification | 276 people | 81% | 5 minutes |
5. Developer community dynamics
EA officials stated in a community announcement on June 15: "We have noticed the compatibility issues of classic games on the new system, and the technical team is evaluating fixes." The private MOD team CorsixTH announced at the same time that its version 0.67 will completely rewrite the rendering module (expected to be released in August).
It is recommended that players first adopt the compatibility layer solution as a temporary solution and pay attention to the following progress:
• EA official patch status: Code review stage
• CorsixTH new version progress: Alpha testing
• dgVoodoo2 update: version 2.79 expected to be released in July
This article will continue to update solutions, and it is recommended to collect and share them with players who encounter the same problem. If you have other effective solutions, please add them in the comment area.
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