problem exiting in Win98

[Orlanth]

So about 2/3 of the time when exiting Dom2 in fullscreen mode I find that my monitor will just keep displaying the closing screen instead of the desktop. It's not a system crash - I can still hear the appropriate "clicks" etc when blindly moving things around on the desktop, and can even do a blind restart by hitting the Windows key to open the Start menu. The other 1/3 of the time the screen will flicker a bit and then exit appropriately. I tried reinstalling the display driver from the Windows CD but no improvement.. So far I've avoided this by playing it in a window (which exits fine) but that doesn't allow me to use higher resolutions or see much of the map. Has anyone else had this strange prob or any clue what's going on?

[PvK]

No such problem on my Win 98SE - I can only offer the "do you have the latest drivers for your video adapter?" standard reply. I.e., it sounds like a video driver bug.

What happens if you play in full-screen mode, but then use ctrl-Enter to go to windowed mode before exiting the game? Does that get around the problem?

PvK

[Raen]

I was having some problems with Win98SE, possibly related to yours, possibly not.

How I got around the problem was by playing in a window that was just about the size of my screen, i.e., almost full screen.

It's extremely convenient. You don't have to alt-tab to get to other applications, your task bar is readily available even while in game, and you get really all the advantages of playing full screen at the same time.

Open up your shortcut and after dom2.exe put --window --res XXX YYY. My desktop's at 1024x768, so I put --res 1000 725. Works really well.

[Orlanth]

Yep I tried with a vid card driver and no dice; also ctrl-enter doesn't seem to back out to a window.. maybe that's only for DOS box programs?

Thanks for that tip re the res settings. You're right I think I can actually be pretty content in a window as is. But, is there some way to zoom out slightly on the province maps? I swear I somehow managed to see much more of the map using a friend's laptop recently, and now it just looks really "zoomed-in" to me. Yet when I tried the higher-res window just now I didn't see much of a scale change. Am I hallucinating?

(BTW my Win is true old-school non-SE. Don't ask me why..)

[Raen]

Originally posted by Orlanth:
Yep I tried with a vid card driver and no dice; also ctrl-enter doesn't seem to back out to a window.. maybe that's only for DOS box programs?

Alt-Enter

Thanks for that tip re the res settings. You're right I think I can actually be pretty content in a window as is. But, is there some way to zoom out slightly on the province maps?

The totally intuitive Page Down zooms the map out, Page Up zooms it in. Delete gives you the big picture. End zooms back down to province-scale.

[ December 05, 2003, 01:09: Message edited by: Raen ]

[Orlanth]

Ah, thanks - problem solved.. shoulda seen that in the manual