Re: Experimental winSPWW2 EXE--May 15, 2018
 

well then, it works for everyone BUT you. you were told by Zovs66 he uses it......how could it NOT work with the game if he uses it ??

Re: Experimental winSPWW2 EXE--May 15, 2018
 

am I missing / not understanding something or did you not read the big red box in the manual:
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/b...psxvixnrwq.jpg

Re: Experimental winSPWW2 EXE--May 15, 2018
 

It most certainly does work. Just follow the instructions in the manual in how to run the game, and install borderless gaming, you have to add the correct executable to borderless gaming, then reload the game and give it a few seconds and then whala your off and running in full screen. It’s just works flawlessly and seamlessly.

From your posts it sounds like your running windows and hiding the task bar and if your read the manual and the posts on the forum you’ll understand that is a no-no.

It also sounds Ike your adding the game settings to borderless gaming and not the game.

Re: Experimental winSPWW2 EXE--May 15, 2018
 

And we added a check on auto-hide that asks if you want to try it if it finds auto-hide on, that is there for the 1% or so whose video driver (or whatever) will happily co-exist with windowed mode and auto-hide. Those few folks are in the "hens teeth" category of rareness, but the pop-up dialogue box was added for these few.

Re: Experimental winSPWW2 EXE--May 15, 2018
 

Acer :o Aspire Laptop
15.6 inch monitor
1366x768 resolution

Intel Pentium 2.20 Ghz
4 GB RAM
64 bit system
Windows 10 Home OS

Both Z6 & Z7 look great.

No lagging or anything like that.

:up:

Re: Experimental winSPWW2 EXE--May 15, 2018
 

Been using the experimental exe since May, and here is some interesting (?) screenshots from some of my scenario playtesting.

1. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiSjv0_WD-X35n1FOwodbWrDIYp-

2. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiSjv0_WD-X35nkv2mej6z529GrG

3. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiSjv0_WD-X35ndIy-nOMRRkMnyk

4. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiSjv0_WD-X31nmKCGJ8zYCSNxpV

5. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiSjv0_WD-X32HL1pgMHy0NjL10o

6. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiSjv0_WD-X35nwPk16xSMyBrxUD

Re: Experimental winSPWW2 EXE--May 15, 2018
 

After a severe illness I am back and amazed at what I've forgotten. I'm trying to download and install this experimental patch on a purchased copy upgraded to the most recent versions. When I get to unzipping I get a message that says "the program can't start WINVFX8.dll is missing." The it tells me to reinstall the program. Are they referring to the game or the Winzip app?

I don't speak computer much but I've played the game since the original SP. Any advice would be appreciated.

Re: Experimental winSPWW2 EXE--May 15, 2018
 

I just checked. This experimental EXE is supplied as a zip file, not an installer.

The error you get will be given if you extracted the game exe supplied to some random place and double clicked on it. None of the support files (maps, DLLs OOBS, etc) will be there of course!.

Follow the instructions given by Don in post #1 of this thread to install, and you will be fine.

1) Have a working copy of the game, patched and up to date
2) Rename the game exe in there as described in post 1, if desired
3) Unzip the zip file, ensuring that the extraction path points to the game main folder (easiest way - firstly copy the zip to the folder and then use the "extract here" command)

Re: Experimental winSPWW2 EXE--May 15, 2018
 

If you extracted the experimental EXE to your game the timestamp for the new EXE in your main winSPWW2 folder will be 2018-05-15 and if it is and this copy of the game was already patched to ver 11 it should run. Normally a "WINVFX8.dll is missing" message only occurs when it's run from a folder with out all the game .dlls ( there should be 34 other DLL's in the main winSPWW2 folder along with the EXE)

Re: Experimental winSPWW2 EXE--May 15, 2018
 

Did you get it working ?