Thread: Experimental winSPWW2 EXE--May 15, 2018
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Old June 17th, 2018, 02:54 PM
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Default Re: Experimental winSPWW2 EXE--May 15, 2018
Re - laggy scrolling.

That usually occurs with me if I am trying to run the game in full-screen mode. It works just fine at the same resolution in windowed mode, at desktop resolution.

Basically Full-screen mode is only there because of historical reasons (it used to be the fastest mode, in windows 98 and perhaps early XP). Modern windows video drivers don't really handle that mode well. In addition, you will see more scrambled palette problems in windowed mode because modern windows assume that mode is obsolete, windows 7 had to have a special batch file written since it uses the game's 256 colour palette for "aero" desktop effects.

So if it is set to "Full screen" mode then switch to "Windowed" mode and the lag should disappear.
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