CD arrives!

dlazov · #1 June 15th, 2006, 04:15 PM

Andy,

I have no real video card, I have the built in intel video chip that uses from the 384 megs of RAM that I got (I believe). It's an on board Intel 82845G Graphics Controller with Adapter RAM 64.00 MB. It does say the resolution is 1280x1024x60 hertz, which is what my normal windows settings are. By default the CD installation selected 1600x1280. Perhaps that's the issue?

Going to try 1280x1024 BRB

Okay in Windowed mode looks just as fine as the 1600 mode, but the text is a bit bigger. Going down into Full Mode:

Well that worked but, it was very, very, very slow (the 'p', 'n', 't', 'f' commands and scrolling were a impossible crawl).

Trying next 1152x864 Windowed (forgot full, if I can get readable text I like the HFW button.

That worked but not as nice as the 1280. One last try in Windowed mode at 1024x768.

I will just stick with the 1280x1024 mode.

Thanks.

It works like a champ in Windowed mode, it runs very fast and the graphics are aswome, it's just my eyes are getting older and it's hard to read the info text (I am really used to the old DOS 480x640 size for text)

Mobhack · #2 June 15th, 2006, 04:42 PM

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Andy,

I have no real video card, I have the built in intel video chip that uses from the 384 megs of RAM that I got (I believe). It's an on board Intel 82845G Graphics Controller with Adapter RAM 64.00 MB. It does say the resolution is 1280x1024x60 hertz, which is what my normal windows settings are. By default the CD installation selected 1600x1280. Perhaps that's the issue?

Of course it is, and that is why we specify a video card with at least 32MB of video RAM in the minimum specs.

That does not mean you cannot play the game with less than the recommended min spec, just that it might not work very well, on integrated graphics cards which have to "steal" RAM from the PC. If that thing is "sharing" RAM, that may be your problem with full screen DirectX. Or the integrated chip may simply not support the larger screen sizes.

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By default the CD installation selected 1600x1280. Perhaps that's the issue?

Hmm - I did not realise it had been shipped witht he highest mode as the default - that will choke on say my LCD 1280 screen. (The video card allows you to select 1600 mode in the windows preferences, it is just when you try to apply 1600 mode onto 1280 LCD hardware that the LCD monitor objects rather forcibly to any attempt to drive it at a screen resolution greater than native!!

Probably woud have been best sent out with 1024 as the initial screen size, as a reasonable choice. You cannot drive LCD monitors above their "native" size, and some low-end graphics cards will also possibly have fits.

Cheers
Andy

DRG · #3 June 15th, 2006, 07:11 PM

I set it up to display at 1600x1280 becasue that way the GameOptions always sets up the game at the highest resolution you normally have your monitor set to.

For example. I run my monitor 1152x864. When I start the game even though it's set to 1600x1280 in GameOptions it plays at 1152x864

I could have set GameOptions to a lower screen resolution but anyone starting up the game for the first time with a higher monitor resolution would have only seen the game for the first time at that lower resolution. If I set the GAME to 1600x1280 when It loads it always loads at the players default monitor settings

Don

dlazov · #4 June 15th, 2006, 09:18 PM

Well, all in all works very fine in Windowed Mode. It's when I went to Full Screen mode it carps out. Like I said before I like Windowed mode the best because of the new HFW button. That way when a WOR walks into a room or a WTIPO is using the EOD I can hit the HFW button and resume normal H2W conversations.

BTW all the abbreviations:
HFW (Hide From Wife)
WOR (Wife On Rampage)
WTIPO (Wife That Is Pissed Off)
EOD (Eyes of Death)
H2W (Husband To Wife)

lol.

Mobhack · #5 June 15th, 2006, 09:31 PM

Ahah! - you mean a boss key

Cheers
Andy

Artur · #6 June 19th, 2006, 06:22 AM

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dlazov said:
Well, all in all works very fine in Windowed Mode. It's when I went to Full Screen mode it carps out. Like I said before I like Windowed mode the best because of the new HFW button. That way when a WOR walks into a room or a WTIPO is using the EOD I can hit the HFW button and resume normal H2W conversations.

BTW all the abbreviations:
HFW (Hide From Wife)
WOR (Wife On Rampage)
WTIPO (Wife That Is Pissed Off)
EOD (Eyes of Death)
H2W (Husband To Wife)

lol.

LOL. Good to see you here Don!
Hope you will port your SPWaW scens to SPWW2!

Artur.