Since the last few updates of SPWW2 and SPMBT, I haven't been able to play the game fullscreen without the colours going all crazy, and looking like a game on Speed. It used to work fine on Win 7, but unless I play in windowed mode it doesn't work. The trouble with the windowed mode is that I only get a tiny window to work with - about 5"*3" - giving a normal view of just over 10 hexes across. Does anyone know how to expand the window - my native resolution is 1980*1080, or to tinker with the start up so I can run the game in fullscreen without it tripping out?
Any advice will be very much appreciated. O0
Are you running the free version or the full purchased cd version?
Here's a link from the shrapnel games forum that seems to address the color issue. If you're running the free version I don't think you can do full screen mode. Lots more over at the shrapnel forums.
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=78 (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=78)
I'm using the free version. You used to be able to run it full screen a couple of patches back.
They charge for the version with hi-res options.
I'm running the free version, latest update (22. Feb. 2014) in full screen and have no issues.
That is while running the game.
However, when I exit the game, I get an empty desktop and have to log off, then log back on to get windows running.
PS: My OS is Windows 7
I'm talking about the map filling up the screen on higher resolutions.
Unless they recently added this to the free version, which is hard to believe because that was about the only reason to purchase. Or maybe your monitor doesn't use the higher resolutions?
My monitor support high-res, but the game uses 800x600 with higher resolution-options grayed out in the game menu (so it seems that high-res is with the commercial version only).
This was the setting when I installed the game, and I never had the problem Boggit mentions. The game ran smoothly from the get go - windowed and full screen.