Winspww2 does run well anymore

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Originally Posted by Zombieritual

The game ran just fine in windowed mode. I also tried to change it to GDI, and turn of the sound, but that didn't change anything. I also run the gsme in compability mode for windows xp pack 3.

Windowed mode in "desktop" resolution is the best way for any windows version post XP, really.

It's got everything that full-screen mode has, but it cooperates with windows task-swapping and so on. Plus you can see the task bar at the bottom of the screen for the time and notifications of incoming emails etc.

Full-screen mode uses the old and time-honoured MSDOS method of manipulating the 256 colour palette, which seems to not work too well post XP and needs a special batch script to kill the aero desktop in vista and seven since those 2 use the exact same 256 colour palette for the transparency and other effects of "aero" thus nuking the game to a psychedelic mode. (The same goes for many older games - I got the batch script idea from other games forums with a little bit of goggling).

All you need do in windowed/desktop mode is set the scroll sensitivity for the screen edge to what you like if the default does not suit.

cheers
Andy