Cannot play in full screen mode

DRG · #1 August 7th, 2005, 11:10 AM

What kind of monitor is this and is this a desktop or laptop ?

Don

wstraka · #2 August 7th, 2005, 01:48 PM

Apple flat screen 20" display--computer is a desktop. I also have a laptop with a 15" (res: 1920x1200) on which the game will play just fine.

Bill

DRG · #3 August 7th, 2005, 03:01 PM

Do you have the taskbar "pop-up" enabled on your 20" desktop? That's a kiss of death.

Does your laptop with the 15" use the same DirectX version as your desktop. Those two .DLL's you mentioned sound a bit iffy. Try installing the latest versions. That may help

Don

wstraka · #4 August 7th, 2005, 03:49 PM

The taskbar (on both machines) is in the "unlocked" but fixed position on the bottom of the display. Both machines have the same version of DirectX (4.09.0000.0904) and oddly enough the laptop has the same debug version file and two other files that are debug versions the desktop doesn't have (the desktop has those files as retail versions). The laptop has the NVidia GeForce FX Go5200 (64mb) as a video card.

Bill

Mobhack · #5 August 7th, 2005, 05:32 PM

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WGS said:
The taskbar (on both machines) is in the "unlocked" but fixed position on the bottom of the display. Both machines have the same version of DirectX (4.09.0000.0904) and oddly enough the laptop has the same debug version file and two other files that are debug versions the desktop doesn't have (the desktop has those files as retail versions). The laptop has the NVidia GeForce FX Go5200 (64mb) as a video card.

Bill

For full screen, the task bar has no relevance.

You mentioned a "wide screen" monitor. It may well be that the drivers for that screen will not handle a DirectX full screen mode higher than 1024 by 768.

Try running the attached DirectX capabilities viewer -
DirectDraw devices/primary display driver (display)\video modes

if there is a distinct lack of anything > 1024X768x8 then your drivers don't support the modes shown on the gameoptions set-up.

Cheers
Andy

Cheers
Andy

wstraka · #6 August 7th, 2005, 07:01 PM

I've attached a partial screenshot of the results. It looks to me like it will support up to 1680x1050 (if I'm reading things correctly).

DRG · #7 August 7th, 2005, 10:28 PM

Hmmmmm...... from what I can see from that attachment there is no support on your machine for 1152x864 or 1280x1024 or 1600x1280 resolutions.....at least, I couldn't see any . I see the 1680x1050x32 but that's not a resolution the game is built for and it doesn't appear to support the other two either

When you ran the dxdiag where was it reporting the DLL's being
debug etc? I checked the copy of DX I have and it's the same as the one you show but I didn't see anything but " Final retail" ( one was beta retail )

Don

Mobhack · #8 August 8th, 2005, 08:55 AM

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WGS said:
I've attached a partial screenshot of the results. It looks to me like it will support up to 1680x1050 (if I'm reading things correctly).

As Don notes, you have no 1152x864, 1280x1024, or 1600x1280 video modes supported by your card, in any of the DirectX full screen modes (8,16 or 32 bit colour). 1024 by 768 is the highest regular windows full-screen mode you have, and then a jump to several non-standard 1600xXXX resolutions, like 1600x1050.

These sizes are noted in the manual, and are shown when you choose resolution in the game options programme.

Your wide-screen format monitor is probably only able to "do" 1024x768 in a format that will fit onto its "stretched" width WRT a regular monitor's "TV" format.

Cheers
Andy