Screen won't maximize (1.7.11.23x6a) bug

[Rusty1961]

I can't maximize the screen. When I hit the maximize tab in the upper right it only moves the screen (about 60% of the monitor size) to the upper left corner.

It makes it very difficult to give orders to the entire map while playing with a small window.

Ideas?

Rusty

[Lokasenna]

Disable window mode. You can do this by removing the -w in the command line of the shortcut. You can access this command line by right-clicking on the shortcut and selecting properties. It will be the first field in the properties that you can change.

Alternatively, you can keep window mode but increase the resolution. I don't know what your monitor's resolution is, but you can look in the "What's new" .rtf (either in the beta2 folder or the main WITP folder or the Patch, I forget) to see which resolutions are supported.

[Chris21wen]

ORIGINAL: Rusty1961

I can't maximize the screen. When I hit the maximize tab in the upper right it only moves the screen (about 60% of the monitor size) to the upper left corner.

It makes it very difficult to give orders to the entire map while playing with a small window.

Ideas?

Rusty

Never has. The game was originally written for full screen only. After a lot of requests for windowed mode was added but it's a fixed sized window controlled by -w, -px/-py settings. I suspect the graphics can't cope with being resized in game which is true of a lot of old game engines which this is.

[zakblood]

whats your operating system? if i may ask, don't own the game either but know settings in most that may or may not help, not that you may or may not have tried them already mind you as it's the exe properties ones that you can alter for yourself than may help, or not but worth i try if i know what o/s you're on that is, then i'll post info on how you can change it if you like or need the help etc.

[HansBolter]

The beta updates automatically add the -w (windowed mode) switch to the command line.

Go to your startup shortcut, right click on it to access properties and delete the -w switch at the end of the command line.

Have to do this after every beta update.

[michaelm75au]

Best bet is to create a copy of the beta shortcut and modify it to run game from. The installed beta shortcut isn't adding anything extra apart from running from the beta location. And that wont change.