Info Windows 7 *GUARANTEED* fix - Page 9

Imp · #81 December 14th, 2010, 09:37 AM

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If by desktop patch you mean the NCrawler fix it won't matter.

Meant the fix that adds desktop mode to resolutions
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=46003

DRG · #82 December 14th, 2010, 08:28 PM

The BETA fix includes the GameOptions program that includes the desktop change for CD owners. Installing the Beta fix over the Desktop resolutions beta should work OK

Don

Imp · #83 December 15th, 2010, 03:16 PM

So do you want it tested on Vista?

DRG · #84 December 15th, 2010, 08:25 PM

Sure why not.

Don

DRG · #85 December 15th, 2010, 08:45 PM

Just so everyone is clear here this beta "fix" is aimed only at players who would prefer to run fullscreen or who run the game fullscreen because they are playing the DL version and 800x600 is a pretty small window in most modern monitors. We know the game runs well in Windowed mode

Furthermore , it's an experiment only. We wanted to get some solid feedback from players and the best way to do that with something like this is to get it into the most number of hands to get the feedback but in that regard the experiment has been a bust with only 9 people DLing it and less than half responding

Perhaps it's just "that time of year.........."

The one piece of useful info this has generated is that Win7 allows the intro to run whereas it wouldn't with Vista which is one aggravation MS has fixed with one of it's service packs at some point.

Don

secretgeek · #86 December 17th, 2010, 11:32 AM

I've got the widescreen beta installed (which works very nicely for when I'm 'working' from home). Tried the win7fix but I keep getting two error message boxes come up and it stops working. Oh and the explorer window that I had open to run the command closes as well.

The boxes are:

SAL Error

IpDD->SetDisplayMode() failed, code 80004001

SAL Error DirectDraw could not be initialized! Error code 80004001

Hope that helps!

secretgeek · #87 December 17th, 2010, 11:59 AM

Actually ignore my post. I've gone back through this thread and came across the solution. I've got the resolution set too high.

Set it to 1024 x 768 and it runs fine.

Only issues now as far as I can see is:

The text is a little blurry.
The two black bars down each side of the screen.
And the fact that my system actually runs at 1280x800 which means I'm only 224 pixels short of being able to play the game at 2 higher levels of resolution! Most frustrating indeed.

Actually, ignore pretty much all of this post too.

Changed the resolution to 'Desktop' and it works fine bar one issue.

I can Alt-tab in and out great with no pallette funkiness but after closing it down i appear to have lost my taskbar. Right-clicking doesn't bring up any options at all on the bit of desktop I can see. I can Alt-tab through windows (which is how i got back here to write this) but even then you can't alt-tab to the dektop.

secretgeek · #88 December 17th, 2010, 12:12 PM

Just final thing (it really is one of those days) logging off and on brought my taskbar back. No need for shutdown restart.

Imp · #89 December 17th, 2010, 04:29 PM

Did you try right clicking & refreshing to bring the taskbar back?

JamesG · #90 December 18th, 2010, 07:42 PM

Just tried the fix and it worked. EXCEPT, when I exited the program I lost all of my desktop and icons and everything I tried failed. The only thing that worked was to restart my system. So, for me this didn't work, is there a way to fix lossing my desktop, what I see is happening is that it's closing explorer and not restarting it. Hope this helps.
my specs.

i7-950
amd 6870
win 7 ult.