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]

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?

[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]

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.

[LongTallMatt]

eq folder /logs