Warning: VISTA-SP1 and WinSP:WW2/MBT problems!

[TheDesertFox]

Hi,

yes 32megs is what the gameguide recommends. However it runs flawless in 1280x1024 on my VPC.

cheers

[Horses]

Hi,

thanks for your help and support.

Both WinSP:WW2/MBT are running fine and smooth now in windowed mode. The problem was the font size (it was too large). I adjusted it to standard settings 96DPI and now all is ok.

@TheDesertFox
I use the older 8800GTS G80 with 320MB with Asus Mainboard (P35-chipset).

[Mobhack]

Horses said:
Hi,

thanks for your help and support.

Both WinSP:WW2/MBT are running fine and smooth now in windowed mode. The problem was the font size (it was too large). I adjusted it to standard settings 96DPI and now all is ok.

@TheDesertFox
I use the older 8800GTS G80 with 320MB with Asus Mainboard (P35-chipset).

I now recall someone had a problem with Mobhack, way back in the Windows 98 days (before I needed reading glasses!), and it eventually turned out that he had reset his windows to use large fonts.

Changing any version of Windows away from the default 96DPI is never a good idea, as it can thoroughly mess up any dialogue boxes, buttons, display of images etc - the size of the dialogue box or text button or image box X-Y pixels is fixed to whatever was used in the form designer and won't rescale, but any now-larger text (or image, if it rescales them - been a long while since I looked at the problem) then tries to squash into the existing pixel area and simply makes a mess. Therefore highly not recommended!.

In the old CRT days - the best way to make Windows larger for poor eyesight etc (without pulling one's reading glasses out! ) was to simply use a smaller window size on your monitor (e.g. 800 by 600 instead of say 1024 by 768). The "feature" to change windows DPI seems really never to have been a usable one due to side-effects, and it seems Vista continues that tradition!. Nowadays, with LCD screens, using a non-native resolution can result in "fuzzy" screens, one reason I still have the 10-ton (or so it seems if I shift it!) 19 inch CRT gathering dust in the spare bedroom. It's the only way I can test the game at maximum resolution now, as my LCD 1280 by 1024 monitor simply cannot handle that resolution, though the graphic card will - and will happily let me try it on the LCD monitor, but with a blank screen as a result. The monitor hardware seems not to tell the GFX card it can't hack the resolution, and so Windows believes the GFX card it seems. (The CRT was also better at colour handling - my desktop used to be the "autumn" one with the trees and leaves etc, but the new LCD screen seems somewhat washed-out & faded with browns and so I tend to use a blueish one instead now).

Cheers
Andy

[Wdll]

Mobhack sounds like you need to buy a new larger TFT monitor.