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If you're experiencing graphical issues with the adventure game Runaway: A Road Aventure, I found an issue with AMD's anti-aliasing support. The game performs it's own antialiasing, and the morphological filtering anti-aliasing setting, as set in the Catalyst Control Center's "3D Application Settings" will have to be disabled, else a very interesting but unplayable situation happens where every game screen refresh, the game performs its own antialiasing, and in the subsequent frames AMD's own antialiasing kicks in and proceeds to blur further and further until the next time the game redraws the screen itself, whereupon for a single frame everything is perfect, but things quickly blur farther and farther from there, as the anti-aliasing function is continiously re-applied to the same buffer.

Keywords: blinking text, unreadable text, blurry images, periodic blurring, AMD, Runaway: A Road Aventure

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In case you're wondering what the maximum amount of motor oil in your basement that can drip into the RAM banks of your Itanium2 with a lot of registered ECC DDR dimms, it's about this much:

There were other slightly less lubricated DIMMs in the server that continued to operate fine; this amount appears to be near the upper ceiling for RAM lubrication.

The more you know!

As a testement to enterprise stability, the machine operated just fine through the ordeal, albeit it stopped using 4GB out of the 12GB of RAM on board until I gave the motherboard and RAM a good ol' degreasing.

Only one DIMM actually was permanently damaged as a result of the ordeal; the rest have been put back into service.

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Aren't I great at Windows scripting? (Sarcasm)

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