From the screenshots the others posted it looks to me like the bitmaps have a byte-offset problem.

Different video cards display graphics differently. Oh geez, I forgot the name of the term for it....brain cramp... The basic issue is that some cards display the scan lines at different offsets or shifts. You have to account for this in your code. I think it is covered in Andre''s book, maybe the advanced book is the one that covers it. I would send you the code I am talking about but I don''t have it here at work...

Try plotting a pixel in the four corners of a blank bitmap. Display the bitmap and check where to dots are. This will help you to see the problem. Or, just put one red dot in upper-left, and one green dot in lower-right, then you will only have two points to figure out.

Once I get home I will check into the technical name for what I am talking about and post it here.

-AG

Very nice but the graphics for mario and the bushes are screwed up on my pc.

450 pII, 256 mgs of ram
Riva TNT
Directx7.0A

--FUEL

The Computer configuration does not matter and dont waste your time trying to work out different cfgs.

DirectX exist to be the communication with ANY device, you must do the following :

You must get the PITCH first, create a class with this func:

DDSURFACEDESC2 ddsd;
HRESULT hr=DDERR_WASSTILLDRAWING;
Pitch = 0;
memset(&ddsd, 0, sizeof(ddsd));
ddsd.dwSize = sizeof( ddsd );
switch (Mode)
{
case 0:
return NULL;

case CDD_DOUBLEBUFFER:
while (hr==DDERR_WASSTILLDRAWING)
hr = DDSPrimary->Lock(NULL, &ddsd, DDLOCK_SURFACEMEMORYPTR, NULL);
if(FAILED(hr))
return NULL;
Pitch = ddsd.lPitch;
return (void *)ddsd.lpSurface;

On the main loop add this:

if (!G_Skip)
{
video_buffer = (USHORT *)CMyDraw.OpenDraw();
int pitch = (CMyDraw.Pitch>>1);
int on_screen_bytes = SCREEN_WIDTH<<1;
g=0;h=0;
while (h <= SCREEN_SIZE)
{
memcpy( video_buffer + g , G_Buffer + h , on_screen_bytes);
g+=pitch; h+=SCREEN_WIDTH;
}

CMyDraw.CloseDraw();
request=0;
CMyDraw.Flip();
}

problem solved?