winSPMBT and WinSPWW2 and VISTA

ephrom · #1 March 23rd, 2008, 11:51 AM

Same graphics problem with AMD 3870. 16 bit color solves the problem. No other problems.

DRG · #2 March 23rd, 2008, 12:27 PM

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ephrom said:
Same graphics problem with AMD 3870. 16 bit color solves the problem. No other problems.

Does that apply to both windowed and fullscreen mode ?

Don

ephrom · #3 March 24th, 2008, 09:24 PM

Full screen and windowed both good with 16 bit. Windowed was ok with 32 bit, but the intro would often hang. Running ultimate sp1.

DRG · #4 March 25th, 2008, 11:27 AM

OK, interesting. We have had other reports of the intro hanging up the game once SP1 was patched to Vista as well. I'm glad this fix works for you. Hopefully as we get more reports like this we can narrow the problem down

Don

Crusher_Bob · #5 April 10th, 2008, 01:57 AM

Have a new (Vista related?) bug. When playing in full screen mode, viewing the map seems to hang the game.

Was preparing for a battle, clicked on 'human deployment', map screen comes up, game stops responding.

Tried both DirectX and GDI graphics mode, same outcome. Have not tried the various compatability modes yet. Still works fine in windowed mode.

DRG · #6 April 10th, 2008, 10:47 AM

Does that happen every time you try playing in full screen mode?

Are you playing the DL or CD version ?

Why I ask is to see if more people report this if perhaps it might be related to the screen resolution used.

Don

Crusher_Bob · #7 April 11th, 2008, 02:25 AM

Download version 800x600.

Tried to run in compatability mode to see if that solved the problem, it seem to. Then double checked running without compatability mode and still couldn't re-create the lock-up. Though full screen mode is much slower than windowed mode. May be related to other processes hogging cpu time, will try tonight while running itunes, folding@home, etc.

As an added bonus, I don't have any freezes running the intro in full screen mode. Just get a flicker to desktop (screen goes black, can see taskbar). Then a flicker back to the game, which just displays a black screen for several seconds, then the game menu comes up.

If I can't re-create the freezes, I guess it'll just have to be put down to a problem with Vista, and not WinSPWW2.