Win 8.1 and AE

[decaro]

"C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\autorun.exe" -dd_sw -SingleCpuOrders –cpu2 –multiaudio -w –px1680 –py1050

The above seemed to help some AE menus, but in general it's just not working as well as it did under my old Dell XP.
Or am I doing something wrong?

8.16.3.9600 Build
HP 500-164 x64 based PC
AMD A8-600 APU w/Radeon HD graphics
8G RAM


It seemed to help some menus, but in general it's just now working; am I doing something wrong?

Yes.

To use any of these, Right click to edit the Properties on the “Quick Start” shortcut to the game (located in your Start Menu folder for War in the Pacific: Admiral’s Edition). Do not edit the default desktop link, which points to an “autorun.exe” as that won’t work

OK, can anyone tell me where my Start Menu folder is?

[IronDuke_slith]

ORIGINAL: Joe D.

ORIGINAL: IronDuke

As Bo says, they are command line switches you can add to the command line (accessible by right clicking on your desktop icon and selecting "properties".) I think the read me word doc that is is your WITPAE folder will have the full details. They are well worth adding.

I had the same issue. I retro OS to XP, and at that point the command line switch -dd_SW seemed to work properly and the lag when scrolling or opening new screens completely disappeared.

-cpu# was another good one, but whether this works or not depends entirely on how many cores you have in your processor. (This command line basically tells the machine to use one of the cores rather than attempt to use them all, illogically, it can speed the game up).

IMO, this is very important for Win 8 users and Matrix should take note for the next WitP patch because the lag is very annoying.

So, to be sure I understand, did you retro to XP -- or XP SP2 or 3 -- and did you also have to adjust the command line for the change in OS to work properly?

BTW, my HP Pavilion 500-164 has two dual cores.

I took it back to XP plus Service pack (3, I think).

I then added this to the command line.

-f -dd_sw -cpu1 -px1680 -py1050 -skipVideo -deepColor -multiaudio

-dd_sw is the one I felt sorted out the lag, and it works fine in full screen under XP+SP. This same line wouldn't work for me under Win 7 or Win 8.1.

You should leave out -cpu1 (although experiment as I don't know how the cores thing would work for you - I don't know how four cores differs from two dual cores).

Regards,
ID.

[decaro]

"To use any of these, Right click to edit the Properties on the 'Quick Start' shortcut to the game (located in your Start Menu folder for War in the Pacific: Admiral’s Edition). Do not edit the default desktop link, which points to an 'autorun.exe' as that won’t work."

Can anyone tell me exactly where the AE Start Menu folder is?
I can't find it in my Matrix Games/AE folder.

[Itdepends]

I had a bugger of a time setting it up for Win 8.1

Here's the switches I used
cpu4 -multiaudio -dd_sw -w -px1680 -py1050 -skipVideo

The shortcut was on my desktop (which for some reason I couldn't see) but I found the shortcut manually via c:/Users/"your user name here"/Desktop

Edited the Beta shortcut to include the above switches and then pinned the shortcut to my taskbar.

[Itdepends]

Sorry - should have added that from memory I sent a shortcut of the beta executable from c:\Matrix games\ War in the pacific Admirals Edition\ Beta2

My short cut has

Target: "C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\Beta2\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -cpu4 -multiaudio -dd_sw -w -px1680 -py1050 -skipVideo

Start in: "C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition"


Edit:- just figured out why I couldn't see icons on my desktop- right click and there was an option to "show desktop icons" - for some reason that was not selected (as received from supplier)- go figure.

[decaro]

"You have to use the Quick Start link which points directly to the game executable ..."

In the Start Menu folder?

Since this isn't the default desktop link icon --which I can find -- can anyone tell me where this is?
Or was I supposed to create it?

[Itdepends]

Joe try navigating to the Beta2 sub folder (I assume you're running the beta)- right click, create shortcut and then modify with the Target and Start in settings I've got above. Put that shortcut on your desktop and see how you go.

[decaro]

ORIGINAL: Itdepends

Joe try navigating to the Beta2 sub folder (I assume you're running the beta)...

I'm running v1108r9 -- I bet this isn't the beta you're referring to.

[Blind Sniper]

Yes, check the first post on this thread.

[decaro]

Thanks everyone for getting my New Year off to a good start. Both of the below ...

-cpu4 -multiaudio -dd_sw -w -px1680 -py1050 -skipVideo

or

-f -dd_sw -cpu1 -px1680 -py1050 -skipVideo -deepColor -multiaudio

... worked, but I went with the full screen.

I don't know why it was so complicated for me to R-click the desktop to make a shortcut straight to the executable file and then cut and paste the code.

I wonder why the original AE shortcut icon goes to auto run, otherwise couldn't we have added the code there instead?