Flickering in fullscreen

[reverend]

Disabling one monitor solved the flickering. Bit of a hassle to reorganise two desktops every time, but at least in theory it works.

However, windowed with desktop resolution is still not possible - game stretches to fill horizontally but has a vertical resolution of about 1/4 of the screen height and refuses to receive any clicks.

Guess I'll still stick to the weird resolutions.

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by reverend

Disabling one monitor solved the flickering. Bit of a hassle to reorganise two desktops every time, but at least in theory it works.

However, windowed with desktop resolution is still not possible - game stretches to fill horizontally but has a vertical resolution of about 1/4 of the screen height and refuses to receive any clicks.

Guess I'll still stick to the weird resolutions.

The next step then is to try another resolution on your monitor settings until you find one it does like, and/or one of the 4:3 standard monitor resolutions the game is designed for (e.g. 1600x1280 should fit, with a small margin of desktop visible on the sides).

Also - you do have the task bar in the normal position at the bottom of the screen with auto-hide off, as outlined in the Game Guide, I presume?. Auto-hide nukes the screen as it returns an erroneous desktop size to the WinVFX graphics library.

Cheers
Andy

[reverend]

Ok, I played around a bit more and found a way to set up the desktops quickly without wreaking chaos.

It now actually works windowed/desktop resolution with both desktops active and in native resolution. Turns out, the taskbar even affects winSP when it is on the other desktop (had to drag it over to the primary), as well as "always on top" had to be on (in addition to autohie off). Still a bit of preparation each time I want to play, but it's worth it.

Thanks for the detailed help, I'm a bit too rusty in dealing with all those quirks of older games.