Graphics drivers : this version uses 3 full screen drivers (Accelerated, safe and software), and one windowed driver. The overlay driver is a hacked windowed driver based on a fullscreen one to be even faster, but it works only on very few video cards... All the video effects do not work with the accelerated driver. Try them, and choose the one you prefer, depending on your preferences... If you just use standard video, with no special effects, then the accelerated driver should do.
The windows version is heavily dependant on the version of the graphics drivers you are using for your video card. For example a few drivers render distorted palettes while raine is making fade-ins or fade-outs, and the gui palette is distorted sometimes in 8bpp. If you experiment this try to update your graphics driver version and/or directx.
For sound, we left all the drivers available in allegro for now, but the only driver really working is the AllegMix driver. 2 settings for this one : Default, or specific to a soundcard. Try them... Also we found lately that the AllegMix drivers require your soundcard to support hardware acceleration in directx. You can find out if yours does by running dxdiag.exe. If your soundcard does not support this, you will just hear silence !
Raine Team 16/02/2002