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Getting windowed mode to actually work. (Vista laptop)
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:01 am
by erwin rommel
I'm having a lot of trouble getting bf1942 to run in windowed mode on my Vista laptop.
I've changed the
renderer.setFullScreen 1
to
renderer.setFullScreen 0
under mods/bf1942/settings/videodefault.con but for some reason it still doesn't work. It's been a while since I've had a fresh install. Am I forgetting something?
Re: Getting windowed mode to actually work. (Vista laptop)
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:05 am
by LightSpeed///
in the shortcut there should be a fullscreen modifier in the target box
Re: Getting windowed mode to actually work. (Vista laptop)
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:28 am
by Apache Thunder
...As far as I know BF1942 doesn't have a shortcut command for fullscreen mode. Only BF2 and beyond has that. Though BFV might have it since I haven't checked.
Re: Getting windowed mode to actually work. (Vista laptop)
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:38 am
by fo0k
you are doing all you need to do.. always worked for me on everything and including W7
maybe just double check it and make sure you are not going crazy
Re: Getting windowed mode to actually work. (Vista laptop)
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:38 am
by erwin rommel
Thanks! I'll check again.
I was having trouble getting Vista to actually let me edit the bloody file, so maybe something strange happened.
As a random sidenote: error messages do still pop up in windowed mode in Vista, correct? I need to do some debugging.
Re: Getting windowed mode to actually work. (Vista laptop)
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:50 am
by fo0k
yeah i get errors on map change.. well a crash. would like to know the answer to that one
Re: Getting windowed mode to actually work. (Vista laptop)
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:55 am
by erwin rommel
For that, it's generally helpful to know what the error message says
Re: Getting windowed mode to actually work. (Vista laptop)
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 9:53 am
by erwin rommel
Edit: Scratch my previously posted comment. I found the problem.
I needed to tell Vista to run it as an administrator. I guess if it's not run that way, Vista won't let it check out the relelvant .con file?
In any case, windowed mode works now. I only have to deal with Vista asking me to confirm the adminstrator thing every time I run it.
Re: Getting windowed mode to actually work. (Vista laptop)
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:08 pm
by Player
Usually i just Disable UAC, saves a whole lot of troubles and cuts back on the os nagging...
Re: Getting windowed mode to actually work. (Vista laptop)
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 11:40 pm
by fo0k
yeah I tried UAC for a day before it drove me crazy.