winSPMBT and WinSPWW2 and VISTA

Horses · #1 September 14th, 2007, 03:57 AM

Some time ago I tried both WinSPMBT and WinSPWW2 under Vista, but on my system they ran only good in windowed mode. Fullscreen was nearly unplayable due to lags/slowdowns.
Meanwhile, I purchased the CD-Version and play in windowed mode, but for me the fonts are quite too small at all resolutions in windowed mode.

DRG · #2 September 14th, 2007, 09:52 AM

Was this machine built for Vista or an upgrade? If an upgrade to Vista from XP did you upgrade your video drivers or try to alter the games graphics delay etc. settings?

Don

Horses · #3 September 14th, 2007, 12:58 PM

It was a complete new clean system installation of Vista.
The Video drivers were the latest from Nvidia. In my opionion, these lags/slowdows are caused by the video drivers.

DRG · #4 September 14th, 2007, 10:19 PM

OK, in the first email you said this was "some time ago" which sounds like very close to when Vista was released . Have you checked for new drivers from Nvidia lately?

Don

Horses · #5 September 15th, 2007, 06:38 AM

Dear Don, sorry for confusing. I tried after release of Vista (End of January/Beginning of February) and approx. 3 weeks ago again. Three weeks ago I tried the latest Nvidia whql and also beta drivers.
In the moment I use again windows XP, because winspmbt and winspww2 are quite important for me !

DRG · #6 September 15th, 2007, 09:09 AM

1] OK after you tried the new drivers and didn't see a change did you try adjusting the games graphics delay etc. settings?

2] You say "for me the fonts are quite too small at all resolutions in windowed mode." What size do you have your game set to in full screen mode that gives you font sizes you like ? In windowed mode, in your case, what you may need to do is set your monitor to that resolution first and then start the game.

Don

Horses · #7 September 15th, 2007, 10:09 AM

1.) Yes of course I tried several settings, e.g. graphics delay,scroll speed etc., but no setting was really satisfying.
2.) Before I bought the cd versions I played always in 800x600 fullscreen and concerning the font size it was perfect.My native LCD Solution is 1280x1024 and this is also the resolution which I play in windowed mode now.

Marks · #8 August 29th, 2008, 04:39 AM

I have no problems with either SPMBT or SPWW2 on either of my machines.
I did have to turn off the introduction.

Mark

DRG · #9 August 29th, 2008, 08:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marks

I have no problems with either SPMBT or SPWW2 on either of my machines.
I did have to turn off the introduction.

Mark

Are you running Sevice Pack 1 ?

Don

Dick131 · #10 January 18th, 2009, 05:50 PM

Can anyone advise me? I have recently changed to a Vista PC, and now I can not run PBEM games. I find that when I save the PBEM game, I can save it to a game name, but the SPEML files do not appear in the PBEM folder. I have done searched but they turn up nothing.