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Q: What do I gain by registering (and what do I get for free)?
A: Please see the section named "Register" on this web site for details.
In a nutshell, you get 4 games free, and you can try out
all other games, but they will time out after 2 minutes.
Registration removes the time limit.
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Q: When I enter my registration, why do the edit boxes flash red?
A: This simply means that you have entered your code incorrectly.
Some characters may look similar, such as S and 5, and
Y and V.
Please check the code carefully when entering it.
You will see a "Thank you" message if it is accepted.
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Q: The animation seems a little slow and choppy. Why?
A: Things can slow down a bit on older computers and graphic
cards.
The cursor movement is the first thing to suffer.
There are some things you can do to gain some speed:
- Turn off some "animation" options in the "Options" screen,
starting with the "Fireflies".
- Shrink the window size. Smaller is faster.
- Playing in full screen mode might speed things up also.
Again, smaller is faster, so try lower screen sizes if
it helps.
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Q: In Klondike, why can't I move just some of the cards in a pile?
A: The official rules for Klondike state that you are
allowed to move
the exposed card at the top of a pile, or the entire
pile of face-up cards.
You are not allowed to move only part of the pile.
However, realizing that many people allow this rule, Solitaire
Forever
can allow it. Turn on "Relaxed Rules" from either the
"Options" menu,
or from the "Options" screen.
"Relaxed Rules" can alter the rules slightly in others
ways also,
depending on which game you are playing.
See the game rules on the "Help" screen to see if there
are
"Relaxed Rules" for the current game, and how the rules
change.
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Q: Why can't I play cards out of the foundation piles?
A: The official rules for most solitaire games simply
don't allow it.
In Solitaire Forever version 1.2 and newer, you can choose
to
override this rule. From the "Options" menu, or from
the "Options"
screen, you can turn on "Allow play from foundations".
Note that if you have "Auto-play" turned on also, that
cards played
out of the foundation might "bounce" right back into
the foundation.
The program will "auto-play" cards into the foundation
if it doesn't
see any purpose for leaving the card in the active play
areas.
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Q: How come my card table is black?
A: This happens on a few computers. If you see a black
background,
go to the main title screen, and click off the "Show
Shadows"
checkbox. This will restore the normal card table.
For the curious, it is being caused by a failure in OpenGL when drawing
the shadows.
I draw the translucense (alpha) of all shadows first, and then paint
the card table black
using that tranlucense. Thus all shadows are drawn in one pass, and
without overlap.
In some situations, OpenGL will not use the "destination" alpha values,
and draw the black shadow color 100% over the entire card table.
glBlendFunc(GL_DST_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_DST_ALPHA)
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