Windowed/full screen issue

[Meulaar]

Originally Posted by vossiewulf [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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?

[ScarabBp]

Originally Posted by Meulaar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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.

[mandoluce]

Originally Posted by Meulaar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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]

Originally Posted by mandoluce [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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]

Originally Posted by mandoluce [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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.