NEW gameoptions Beta test - Page 3

DRG · #1 February 24th, 2011, 08:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by user38

As I said above, the new options program works perfectly for me.

Sorry, when I read that the first time I thought you were saying the game worked for with or without using the new gameoptions.exe

Don

user38 · #2 February 25th, 2011, 08:27 AM

I can see now that my post was a litte unclear. I tried it without the beta game options exe and I got the crazy menus. With the new game options exe the game played flawlessly except I kept getting blown up by those damn Iraqi sharp shooters.

jeffreywilens · #3 February 28th, 2011, 02:30 PM

Playing full screen in Windows 7 with latest video drivers on an ATI 4870 card. When exiting, the windows task bar (at bottom) is gone and no apparently way to get it back except going to the task manager and doing a log/off and log/on. This seems to happen everytime I use full screen since downloading this full screen patch. Otherwise, it works fine.

Mobhack · #4 February 28th, 2011, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by jeffreywilens

Playing full screen in Windows 7 with latest video drivers on an ATI 4870 card. When exiting, the windows task bar (at bottom) is gone and no apparently way to get it back except going to the task manager and doing a log/off and log/on. This seems to happen everytime I use full screen since downloading this full screen patch. Otherwise, it works fine.

CTRL+SHIFT+ESC -> task manager -> new task button -> "explorer.exe"

Do you get the problem if you run the CMD file from the game directory directly?.

Andy

jeffreywilens · #5 March 3rd, 2011, 09:10 PM

I'm not sure what changed becasue I can't duplicate the problem today, but this is what I am noticing now:

1. When launch from the shortcut that takes you to the Game Options screen, you lose the task bar whether using full screen or windows.

a) Either way, you can control-alt tab to other programs and then back to to the game.

b) I used the "new" task button to recreate explorer.exe as suggested. That returned the task bar even while the game was still running.

c) However, if I did this while in full screen mode, the color palette was all messed up and could not be fixed.

d) If I do this while in Windowed mode, then the color palette is not destroyed.

2. When launch directly from Win7SPMBT.cmd, I get same results as above.

Mobhack · #6 March 3rd, 2011, 09:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeffreywilens

I'm not sure what changed becasue I can't duplicate the problem today, but this is what I am noticing now:

1. When launch from the shortcut that takes you to the Game Options screen, you lose the task bar whether using full screen or windows.

a) Either way, you can control-alt tab to other programs and then back to to the game.

b) I used the "new" task button to recreate explorer.exe as suggested. That returned the task bar even while the game was still running.

c) However, if I did this while in full screen mode, the color palette was all messed up and could not be fixed.

d) If I do this while in Windowed mode, then the color palette is not destroyed.

2. When launch directly from Win7SPMBT.cmd, I get same results as above.

Only launch explorer after exiting the game batch session - since aero is nuked, deliberately, to avoid palette problems.

Do you have a non-English version of windows, or is the \windows folder installed elsewhere than C:\windows, or renamed?.

Are you running as a user with administrator privileges (the default for most folks who just use the one account), or as a lesser status user?.

Cheers
Andy

jeffreywilens · #7 March 4th, 2011, 12:01 AM

I have USA version of Windows 7 Professional (live in California) installed in the normal Windows folder. I am running in admin mode.

I was just testing to see what would happen if I restarted explorer.exe and have experienced the message "Windows is using basic color" or something like that proving Aero has been nuked.

DRG · #8 March 4th, 2011, 10:33 AM

Have you tried making adjustments in the MISC screen of Game Options ?

Don

DRG · #9 March 4th, 2011, 12:59 PM

We need to know exactly what you are seeing happen as best you can describe it and we need to know what your settings are in the MISC tab of gameoptions

Don

Panzerpionier · #10 March 5th, 2011, 06:47 AM

I am using Vista 32 and the free download versions of WW2 and MBT.
All my settings are set to default.
The only thing i changed after clean install was INTRO OFF.

In full-screen mode after starting a scenario, there is considerable lag in both games.

For example, right clicking a unit to bring up the unit info, will take about 10+ seconds, same when moving units, ending turns or just exiting the scenario.

The patch does not change anything about this for me.
I have also tried the win7 fix but to no avail.

The game (both WW2 and MBT) runs smoothly in windowed mode though.

I hope this was helpful.