Wide screen BETA test - for CD owners only

[DefCon3]

My apologies Andy and Don. I was certain I had turned autohide off on my PC yesterday when I was testing WinSPMBT at various resolutions. Don's email prompted me to look again however and, sure enough, it was turned on. As soon as I turned it off the program filled the screen in windows mode. WinSPMBT looks fantastic on a 24" monitor and plays very smoothly as well - what a great enhancement to the game. My thanks and, again, sorry for the misinformation.

Given my obvious mistake, I decided I'd better double check my 1366x768 laptop. It definitely does not fill the screen, even with autohide turned off. The best I can get from it is 1280x1024 but that just about fills the screen so I'm happy. I will, however, look at your system RAM and graphics suggestions Andy.

Thanks again for your support. Looking forward to seeing WinSPWW2 on the big screen.


Larry

[PanzerBob]

It works fine with my new system, I'm pleased Thanks a million!!

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by DefCon3

My apologies Andy and Don. I was certain I had turned autohide off on my PC yesterday when I was testing WinSPMBT at various resolutions. Don's email prompted me to look again however and, sure enough, it was turned on. As soon as I turned it off the program filled the screen in windows mode. WinSPMBT looks fantastic on a 24" monitor and plays very smoothly as well - what a great enhancement to the game. My thanks and, again, sorry for the misinformation.

Given my obvious mistake, I decided I'd better double check my 1366x768 laptop. It definitely does not fill the screen, even with autohide turned off. The best I can get from it is 1280x1024 but that just about fills the screen so I'm happy. I will, however, look at your system RAM and graphics suggestions Andy.

Thanks again for your support. Looking forward to seeing WinSPWW2 on the big screen.


Larry

My new windows 7 laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1545 with 1366x768 monitor.

In windowed mode it displays exactly the same behaviour as you describe.

In Full Screen mode it works fine.

It seems to be the width - Any of the 4:3 resolutions that are smaller in width than 1366 work, even though some are deeper in depth than 768. The deep part is cropped to fit the task-bar fine.

Setting the Dell to use 1024x768 desktop produces a reduced screen (it does not seem to stretch like others do - it simply postage stamps the screen!). That works with all modes just fine.

There are apparently some monitors that come with 1360x768 and I would be interested in hearing if any of our users run one of those in windowed mode and if it works. Maybe 6 pixels makes a difference?. In which case I may have to write a special bit of code for 1366 wides.

Andy