Wayne Brehob
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Happens to me, too
I've had two issues with this game, "Dancy Drew and the ransom of the seven ships".
On Parallels 3, the main game video is offset up and left (like the screen shots that people have included), which causes mouse-overs to not match the video (picture having to click the mouse about 1 inch right and 0.25 inches down from a check box to activate it). I tried all sorts of stuff suggested in this thread, but nothing helped. Admittedly, I couldn't try all of the suggestions exactly because I couldn't get the MacBook to go to 640x480. Maybe if I hook up an external analog monitor I could, but it doesn't seem worth it...
On Parallels 4 the game gives an "Access Violation" and crashes whenever an attempt is made to resume a saved game.
Also, these are in two different Windows XP images, so it's possible something is wrong with them (besides the obvious fact that they're Windows). Also, I suppose it's possible the "Big Fish Games" wrapper is affecting things, but I don't want to spend more money on this game to find out.
This is a perfect example of why I use Windows only when absolutely necessary. I think I've decided this game isn't absolutely necessary...
I've had two issues with this game, "Dancy Drew and the ransom of the seven ships".
On Parallels 3, the main game video is offset up and left (like the screen shots that people have included), which causes mouse-overs to not match the video (picture having to click the mouse about 1 inch right and 0.25 inches down from a check box to activate it). I tried all sorts of stuff suggested in this thread, but nothing helped. Admittedly, I couldn't try all of the suggestions exactly because I couldn't get the MacBook to go to 640x480. Maybe if I hook up an external analog monitor I could, but it doesn't seem worth it...
On Parallels 4 the game gives an "Access Violation" and crashes whenever an attempt is made to resume a saved game.
Also, these are in two different Windows XP images, so it's possible something is wrong with them (besides the obvious fact that they're Windows). Also, I suppose it's possible the "Big Fish Games" wrapper is affecting things, but I don't want to spend more money on this game to find out.
This is a perfect example of why I use Windows only when absolutely necessary. I think I've decided this game isn't absolutely necessary...