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Originally Posted by Zombieritual
The game ran just fine in windowed mode. I also tried to change it to GDI, and turn of the sound, but that didn't change anything. I also run the gsme in compability mode for windows xp pack 3.
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Windowed mode in "desktop" resolution is the best way for any windows version post XP, really.
It's got everything that full-screen mode has, but it cooperates with windows task-swapping and so on. Plus you can see the task bar at the bottom of the screen for the time and notifications of incoming emails etc.
Full-screen mode uses the old and time-honoured MSDOS method of manipulating the 256 colour palette, which seems to not work too well post XP and needs a special batch script to kill the aero desktop in vista and seven since those 2 use the exact same 256 colour palette for the transparency and other effects of "aero" thus nuking the game to a psychedelic mode. (The same goes for many older games - I got the batch script idea from other games forums with a little bit of goggling).
All you need do in windowed/desktop mode is set the scroll sensitivity for the screen edge to what you like if the default does not suit.
cheers
Andy