Tip Full (or near full) screen Win 7 fix

Nitro Cruiser · #1 March 11th, 2010, 04:54 PM

Hello fellow SP'ers. I posted a possible fix for those that are having Windows 7 issues over on the winSPMBT site. Posted here as a public service message, is the link to that page for those that hang around the WWII site and might not get over there: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=45099

Hope this gets the remaining players back into the game! Good luck.

Tanker · #2 April 30th, 2010, 10:40 AM

Another solution here that worked for me.
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=45462

Nitro Cruiser · #3 May 26th, 2010, 04:21 PM

Tanker, I tested Ncrawler's fix (at the link you provided) and must say it is a superior solution. I've tested it exhaustively on both WinSPWW2 and WinMBT (with a slight modification to that .exe). I've had no problem running the game(s) in full screen mode, none of the annoying color pallet shift that could occur.

Perhaps Don and Andy could implement this very small fix into the next patch. Until then it is a simple fix if one can make a new shortcut.

mgarnett · #4 June 2nd, 2010, 07:21 AM

Hi Guys,

I'm a new user to WinSPWW2 running Windows 7 64 Ultimate. Whilst this fix works to get the game into full screen without palette corruption, the game does lag. As other users have reported, there is a pause for every five hexes that a unit moves.

Menu options once the game has started are also laggy (i.e. if I select preferences, the game takes a few seconds before responding to the selection).

The game runs fine in a Window though but it would be nice to have full screen.

Cheers

Mark

Imp · #5 June 2nd, 2010, 11:35 AM

Just a thought here but for those of you with lag in full screen mode.
If you play without the fix in full screen mode does the lag still occur?
If so the fix is not the problem only if it now does not occur is the fix doing something.

Nitro Cruiser · #6 June 14th, 2010, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Imp

Just a thought here but for those of you with lag in full screen mode.
If you play without the fix in full screen mode does the lag still occur?
If so the fix is not the problem only if it now does not occur is the fix doing something.

Imp it was pretty much unplayable in full screen mode due to the color distortion. After Night Crawler's explorer fix, I have to say though that I'm not experiencing this lag issue at all (in the middle of a long campaign now).

My laptop is a single core, shared video (ATI). Without seeing the problem in action, I'm wondering if it is a problem with duel (or quad) cores not being able to "share" the load properly. Not sure, but I doubt the game is optimized for multiple cores. This problem could even vary by manufacture/chip set as to how well it handles the instructions. There might be a way to force the use of a single core for a specific application. Just a theory. Make sure video and MB chip drivers are up to date too.

Imp · #7 June 14th, 2010, 05:15 PM

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Imp it was pretty much unplayable in full screen mode due to the color distortion

Realise that which is why I asked if any one with the lag problem bothered to try & see if it happened anyway. Without a baseline to go on I would assume its normal behavior on those machines & nothing to do with the fix.

DRG · #8 June 15th, 2010, 07:51 AM

Does anyone using Vista have this lag issue using this fix or is it confined to Win 7 ?

Don

Imp · #9 June 15th, 2010, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by DRG

Does anyone using Vista have this lag issue using this fix or is it confined to Win 7 ?

Don

If I remember from following this seems restricted to Win 7 Pro & Ultimate with dual cores possibly. Win 7 home guys have reported it works fine so the issue might come from poor execution of the extras you get with Pro & Ultimate or the machine being set up badly with a bottleneck somewhere.
First though they need to see if lag is there on the standard game if not we know the fix is to blame but I am thinking its more likely that the standard game lags to.
If thats the case a visit to the Win 7 forums for a fix is the way to go.

Nitro Cruiser · #10 June 15th, 2010, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by DRG

Does anyone using Vista have this lag issue using this fix or is it confined to Win 7 ?

Don

Don, prior to Win 7, I used Vista for almost a year. I never had any lag with SPWW2 or MBT (but please remember I'm not having it with Win 7 either).

I did have the lesser scrambled palette issue(smoke would appear blueish with red specks and the in game tool bar would have a blue background) occasionally with Vista. I would just hit the Windows key to minimize the game screen to the task bar, then re-expand the window. It would occur about a half dozen times or so over the course of a battle. Nothing definitive to know why it occurred. It would happen on both the player or AI turns. It could have been something to do with refresh rates (just a hunch).

That "method" of working around it stopped when I upgraded to Win 7. This was where the game opening screen (not the game options screen, it was always fine)would be almost unreadable. Never had any luck with any of the Windows property compatibility tweaks, and I must have tried them all.