Display issue

[cbreedon]

Thanks for the help

I tried to change the screen size. I got the same result. I have always had my taskbars at the bottom and non hiding.

I find it odd that the screen I play on has always had the 1900*1200 resolution and the game has worked fine. The only change that was made was the other screen. It seems somehow that is affecting the primary screen... Either way thanks for your help.

[Dudi]

Please enter display settings and change Scale and layout, Change the size of text, apps, and other items. If you have more than 100% for example 200% (Recommended) change it to 100%. I had the same problem and this help me play in desctop resolution.

[cbreedon]

Originally Posted by Dudi

Please enter display settings and change Scale and layout, Change the size of text, apps, and other items. If you have more than 100% for example 200% (Recommended) change it to 100%. I had the same problem and this help me play in desctop resolution.

Thanks

The settings are already at 100%. Not really sure why this happened

[Mobhack]

Are you running multiple monitors simultaneously?

If so - try running just the one monitor at a time and see if it works properly in the older 1980 HD and with the new WUXIA one.

IIRC, some users have reported hiccups with multiple monitor setups, some have resolved that by playing the game on the first monitor (where the toolbar resides? - I don’t use multiple monitors). Some, I think, had to unplug the second monitor. The game is written with a graphics engine that is well before multiple monitors were a thing, DirectX 5 I seem to recollect, I have built it with the DirectX libraries. Current Directx is like version 15 or so I believe?.

And if you have the usual "integrated" graphics with shared RAM and so on rather than a proper graphics card, these can apparently only run smaller resolutions on multiple monitors. Not something I'll be able to try out on this new Dell, all Inspirons use this "slugged" budget-mode HDMI video connector which is built into the motherboard apparently, and that wont drive more than 1920x1080 mode. Wish that I had delved deeper into the specs before buying that model of Dell, as I would have given it a body-swerve if I had realised the limitations of the cheap video hardware inbuilt to these Inspirons!

But video is a weird thing. I used to have a virtual windows XP machine - VMware - to boot to play Civilization 3. After a Vmware update, it refused to run it. Windows 10 played Hearts of iron 4 just fine, but a VMWare w10 virtual machine wouldn’t play that properly - just in a vertical box. Windows 11 barfed on it. But VMware have released the full engine for private use - I threw HOI on the W11 virtual machine I had just made (idea is to do my home banking on the VM - keeping it a level secured from the outer windows 11 on the actual hardware) - VMware Player (the cut down version) - wont properly scale HOI to the screen. But the newly released for private use "full fat" Vmware fusion(?) engine will. Sound's the exact opposite on the 2 vmware players - the cut down player runs the audio, the full-fat fusion one gives me an error about object creation..

That being said, its worth a look at playing the game in a Vmware (or other virtual provider) container if you have problems as it may work there if not on your physical hardware. Although the current owners of Vmware have made it very difficult to actually find the latest free version - I usually updated by the inbuilt link in the VMware engine, but it stalled and barfed on the last internal update process so off I went to find the latest installer - I think I found the actual link to that through a google search and a Reddit post that showed up, having had the run-around on the owners website! That was midway to later last year, maybe they have stopped messing about on their site by now?.

[cbreedon]

So I decided to play today after not messing with it since last weekend. For the heck of it I changed it to desktop and lo and behold it worked! No adjustments or changes since last weekend. Weird but I guess I'll count it as a win... Even though I did nothing but give it a week to think about it LOL

Thanks for everyone's help

[Dudi]

Yes it work in desktop resolution if you have set Scale and layout in Windows to 100% any Scale and layout change genertating screen problems like yours and you have to set game resolution to 1900x1200 or lower to fix this. I tryied to explain this i my first reply but forgot mention about changing in game resolution to desctop

[geoff]

Originally Posted by cbreedon

So I decided to play today after not messing with it since last weekend. For the heck of it I changed it to desktop and lo and behold it worked! No adjustments or changes since last weekend. Weird but I guess I'll count it as a win... Even though I did nothing but give it a week to think about it LOL

I've been following this, as I'm considering upgrading my monitor. Maybe I'm missing something, but you say you ** didn't change ** anything, but you also say you ** changed it ** to desktop?

[cbreedon]

Originally Posted by geoff

I've been following this, as I'm considering upgrading my monitor. Maybe I'm missing something, but you say you ** didn't change ** anything, but you also say you ** changed it ** to desktop?

Hi

When I say I didn't change anything I mean I didn't change any display or video settings or any setting on the computer. The game would not work on the game setting of desktop after I switched out to a new secondary monitor. I had to use the game setting of 1280*1024. After not playing the game and not making any pc settings, I decided to put the game setting back to desktop. It worked with no pc/monitor setting changes. The game setting is what I changed.

In summary: Day 1 with new monitor it would not play in game setting desktop mode on 1280*1024. 7 days later with no pc/monitor changes, it magically worked in game setting desktop mode.

Hope that helps. It was definitely weird.

[Mobhack]

In ~7 days, Windows may have downloaded an updated driver for it perhaps?.

[geoff]

I have found that WinSPMBT works best if it's the only "older" game I have run since I last switched on the computer.