Windowed/full screen issue

[vossiewulf]

I'd prefer to play full screen, but when I do, if I click anywhere at the top of the screen it goes black for several seconds before re-rendering in windowed mode. Worse, my character continues running/turning/whatever and I'm sure you can imagine the disasters that result. Anyone else see this? Is there any way to fix?

[Kavious]

Sounds like maybe your PC resolution doesnt match your EQ resolution?

They should be the same for full screen or you get out of bounds mouse clicks

[vossiewulf]

I'm set to 2560x1440 which seems to be the resolution that EQ wants, should I be set to something else?

[Naethyn]

Modify the eqclient.ini with notepad to be 10 less pixels width and height and it will prevent many problems.

[vossiewulf]

Thanks Nathyn, I'll give that a try.

[vossiewulf]

Unfortunately that did not work, when I edited with width and height down 10 pixels I got a black screen on switching to full screen, then the game crashed.

I did notice that the windowed res was different from the full screen res with the windowed res being set to 2560x1600 and I set that down to 1440 and now windowed mode at least looks a little better.

But the problem with clicking the top of the screen dropping me out of full screen remains.

[Meulaar]

I'd prefer to play full screen, but when I do, if I click anywhere at the top of the screen it goes black for several seconds before re-rendering in windowed mode. Worse, my character continues running/turning/whatever and I'm sure you can imagine the disasters that result. Anyone else see this? Is there any way to fix?

I do not think so. it's a 25 year old client and the devs do not have access to the client's code (what runs on your computer) to change.. only server code. I have relegated myself to running in windowed mode and use two monitors.

The good think about this happening, is you can do an autoswim in a circle, then click off and you can level swimming! :D

There are things like apps that are supposed to help (wineq2? - still windowed) but my feeling is to keep my setup as simple as possible.

So I run windowed and then once in game, you can set the window up very high to where only 20% or less of the window bar is left. You can also prob play with the windowed mode Y-offset to get higher. Plus if you set the personalizations in windows right, that windowed bar will change to whatever color you set it to to let you nkow the window is in focus.

This game also doesn't like viewport mode changes, so going fullscreen can and will crash the game.

Part if the install guide I made to help (my monitors are 1920x1080) - windowedmode = true:

• Optional: EQClient.ini:
o Log=TRUE (logging to tools, will have to clean out logs before they get too big)
o WindowedModeXOffset=-1923
o WindowedModeYOffset=-19
o WindowedMode=TRUE
o WindowedWidth=1920
o WindowedHeight=1080
o Width=1920
o Height=1080
o FullscreenBitsPerPixel=32
o FullscreenRefreshRate=0
o WidthWindowed=1920
o HeightWindowed=1080


also, have you set the client to run in admin? have you set the link to win xp sp2 compatability?

[vossiewulf]

Thanks for the explanation, Meulaar. Ok, I will abandon my attempts to run it in full screen. Too bad, it looks much nicer in full screen.

Actually, I just took your advice of setting the compatibility and running it as administrator and guess what? It's now running full screen and I clicked around all the edges and it stayed full screen!

So that fixed me, thanks Meulaar!

[ScarabBp]

o Log=TRUE (logging to tools, will have to clean out logs before they get too big)
o WindowedModeXOffset=-1923
o WindowedModeYOffset=-19
o WindowedMode=TRUE
o WindowedWidth=1920
o WindowedHeight=1080
o Width=1920
o Height=1080
o FullscreenBitsPerPixel=32
o FullscreenRefreshRate=0
o WidthWindowed=1920
o HeightWindowed=1080


What do you mean logs will fill up? Where do you delete them?

And also
o WindowedModeXOffset=-1923
o WindowedModeYOffset=-19

Is that a typo the 19?
Im playing with Wineq2 and Im trying to figure out anyway of making the screen larger.

[LongTallMatt]

eq folder /logs

[LongTallMatt]

not a typo, it's to shift the window title bar (useless) upwards

[LongTallMatt]

I don't use hacky tools like wineq2 - cleaner install the better inho - the tool could cause a crash. I crash very infrequently and have found it out in relation when my log reading tools stop working - my client will soon crash.

[ScarabBp]

Nevermind I figured out how to enlarge the screen with wineq2

[ScarabBp]

I just got a new computer and the same resolutions were not with the old one. I just set my resolution and it appears to be working. I changed the :

WinEQWidth=1280
WinEQHeight=720
FullscreenBitsPerPixel=32
FullscreenRefreshRate=50
Width=1280
Height=720
WindowedWidth=1280
WindowedHeight=720

To a more manageable size. But I'm confused as to the previous conversation about logs. If I don't change logs, and just change the above resolution sections, do I have to worry about logs?

I don't want to find out later I have a massive collection of logs to be deleted.

[samewer]

The issue of your game reverting to windowed mode when clicking at the top of the screen can be frustrating, but by following these troubleshooting steps, you should be able to identify and resolve the problem. (https://ksatravels.pk/) If none of these solutions work, consider reaching out to the game's support team for further assistance or checking online forums for similar experiences from other players.

[mandoluce]

I do not think so. it's a 25 year old client and the devs do not have access to the client's code (what runs on your computer) to change.. only server code. I have relegated myself to running in windowed mode and use two monitors.

The good think about this happening, is you can do an autoswim in a circle, then click off and you can level swimming! :D

There are things like apps that are supposed to help (wineq2? - still windowed) but my feeling is to keep my setup as simple as possible.

So I run windowed and then once in game, you can set the window up very high to where only 20% or less of the window bar is left. You can also prob play with the windowed mode Y-offset to get higher. Plus if you set the personalizations in windows right, that windowed bar will change to whatever color you set it to to let you nkow the window is in focus.

This game also doesn't like viewport mode changes, so going fullscreen can and will crash the game.

Part if the install guide I made to help (my monitors are 1920x1080) - windowedmode = true:

• Optional: EQClient.ini:
o Log=TRUE (logging to tools, will have to clean out logs before they get too big)
o WindowedModeXOffset=-1923
o WindowedModeYOffset=-19
o WindowedMode=TRUE
o WindowedWidth=1920
o WindowedHeight=1080
o Width=1920
o Height=1080
o FullscreenBitsPerPixel=32
o FullscreenRefreshRate=0
o WidthWindowed=1920
o HeightWindowed=1080


also, have you set the client to run in admin? have you set the link to win xp sp2 compatability?

I'm recently returned to p99 and used to be able to find this file and change WindowedMode to TRUE, to get it to go full screen. I haven't been able to figure out where this file is to change the text, anyone know what I'm doing wrong? It used to be a quick fix for me and now I can't seem to figure it out, very frustrating

[mandoluce]

I'm recently returned to p99 and used to be able to find this file and change WindowedMode to TRUE, to get it to go full screen. I haven't been able to figure out where this file is to change the text, anyone know what I'm doing wrong? It used to be a quick fix for me and now I can't seem to figure it out, very frustrating

Oops, I meant change to FALSE. I found the file and got it to go fullscreen but now it turns black before getting to character select screen and won't load it... Any fixes for this?

[LongTallMatt]

Oops, I meant change to FALSE. I found the file and got it to go fullscreen but now it turns black before getting to character select screen and won't load it... Any fixes for this?

Did you go through all of the trouble-shooting/ pre-setup stuff on the webpage to make this 25 year old client run on a modern OS that it knows nothing about? ie running in win xp sp2 compatibility mode?

Are your drivers updated? Are you forcing discreet gfx card? Also, hard to troubleshoot a black box.