WitP AE Full Screen Windows 8.1

[EHansen]

ORIGINAL: cwhat

Hello All,

I recently purchased WitP and would like to enjoy playing the game. Unfortunately I am having some of the very same problems as others listed on this board. I run a windows 8.1 machine. My current problems are:

1. My scroll speed is very clunky. Right clicking on the desktop shortcut icon, then properties, the target line has the following:
"C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\autorun.exe" -f -px1280 -py1024 -cpu4 -skipVideo -altFont -deepColor -dd_sw

2. Sometimes I will try to put up with the clunky scroll speed and about turn 3 or 4, the opening game window pops up. This is the window where you click "play" to start the game. When it pops up, the text becomes unreadable on the game screen and many of the game buttons turn into green blocks.

I have not been able to get farther than this so I do not know if I have other issues. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.

CWhat

I think this is where your problem starts. The switches should be used with a shortcut of the war in the pacific admirals edition.exe, not the autorun.exe file.

[cwhat]

Hello Again,

Problem 1 is semi-fixed. The scroll speed is faster and I can at least play the game. At first it was scroll - wait - wait - wait - wait - scroll. Now it is scroll - wait - scroll. This is what I have entered into the target line on the desktop shortcut:

"C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\autorun.exe" -altFont -archive -wd -deepColor -px1366 -py768 -fixedArt -noFire -SingleCpuOrders -cpu3

Problem 2 is still a pain. I double click on the desktop shortcut and start the game in the normal fashion. Then at some point during gameplay, the opening start-up screen pops up. When it pops up it causes the text turn green and unreadable.

Thanks for everyone's help.

[Sardaukar]

Try switch: -dd_sw

[mikkey]

ORIGINAL: cwhat

Hello Again,

Problem 1 is semi-fixed. The scroll speed is faster and I can at least play the game. At first it was scroll - wait - wait - wait - wait - scroll. Now it is scroll - wait - scroll. This is what I have entered into the target line on the desktop shortcut:

"C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\autorun.exe" -altFont -archive -wd -deepColor -px1366 -py768 -fixedArt -noFire -SingleCpuOrders -cpu3

Problem 2 is still a pain. I double click on the desktop shortcut and start the game in the normal fashion. Then at some point during gameplay, the opening start-up screen pops up. When it pops up it causes the text turn green and unreadable.

Thanks for everyone's help.

I suppose the problem is that these switches should be with the file "C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" and not with "autorun.exe"

[cwhat]

This is what my target line has listed:

"C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\autorun.exe" -altFont -archive -wd -deepColor -px1366 -py768 -fixedArt -noFire -SingleCpuOrders -cpu3 -dd_sw

The scroll speed is still a bit of a problem. I am not sure how I should change the autorun command to something else. Ideas?

[mikkey]

cwhat, for applying switches you must select "War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe"
correct target line for you is:
"C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -altFont -archive -wd -deepColor -px1366 -py768 -fixedArt -noFire -SingleCpuOrders -cpu3 -dd_sw

[msieving1]

ORIGINAL: jcjordan

So far we're all being tortured w/ dreams of AE2. You'd seem to think someone would take the time to update it for more modern software since this game has been going so long & still has such a strong interest so sales would probably be pretty strong & worth the investment.

You might as well stop being tortured, because there will not be an AE2. As I understand, development of AE in the first place depended largely on volunteer effort. There hasn't been an official update in over two years. I don't have access to Matrix Games' financial information, but I doubt that the game makes them any significant money. The market for this kind of hyper detailed game just isn't large enough.

[Lesbaker]

Hi witpqs,

I noticed a couple of strange switches in your quote that I have not come across before, could you explain the use of the -pxf and -pyf switches;
and also the -noFire switch.

Cheers Les

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Lesbaker

Hi witpqs,

I noticed a couple of strange switches in your quote that I have not come across before, could you explain the use of the -pxf and -pyf switches;
and also the -noFire switch.

Cheers Les

The noFire switch is to disable the firing animations. That makes it easier on the graphics card, as with slow graphics processing the screen can jump during the combat replay. That makes it jump less.

The others are to use a specific resolution that is not one of the standard resolutions that your video adapter supports. In my case I am running windowed mode, and I want the game window to fit exactly into a specific portion of the screen. That way I can still see (and click on) the Windows task bar across the bottom of the screen.

[cwhat]

That did the trick. It works well now. I am in windows mode right now. Is their a way to make it full screen?

[Lesbaker]

Thanks witpqs, most informative [:D]

Cheers Les

[Rainer]

"C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -altFont -archive -wd -deepColor -px1366 -py768 -fixedArt -noFire -SingleCpuOrders -cpu3 -dd_sw

Remove -wd from your switch line to make the game run full screen

Edit: This is for cwhat.

[Strike Eagle]

Hey guys, I know this is sorta unrelated to the threads topic, but I'm wondering if anyone can provide me a link to where I can download the latest beta patch that would allow this game to run on Windows 8.1, please and thanks in advance.

[michaelm75au]

ORIGINAL: Strike Eagle

Hey guys, I know this is sorta unrelated to the threads topic, but I'm wondering if anyone can provide me a link to where I can download the latest beta patch that would allow this game to run on Windows 8.1, please and thanks in advance.

There is no specific patch for OS versions.

[Strike Eagle]

ORIGINAL: michaelm

ORIGINAL: Strike Eagle

Hey guys, I know this is sorta unrelated to the threads topic, but I'm wondering if anyone can provide me a link to where I can download the latest beta patch that would allow this game to run on Windows 8.1, please and thanks in advance.

There is no specific patch for OS versions.

But does Patch 7 enable this game to work on Windows 8.1?

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Strike Eagle

ORIGINAL: michaelm

ORIGINAL: Strike Eagle

Hey guys, I know this is sorta unrelated to the threads topic, but I'm wondering if anyone can provide me a link to where I can download the latest beta patch that would allow this game to run on Windows 8.1, please and thanks in advance.

There is no specific patch for OS versions.

But does Patch 7 enable this game to work on Windows 8.1?

The game has always worked on Windows 8.1. Michael is telling you that no specific patch level is required for it to work on 8.1.

[Strike Eagle]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Strike Eagle

ORIGINAL: michaelm



There is no specific patch for OS versions.

But does Patch 7 enable this game to work on Windows 8.1?

The game has always worked on Windows 8.1. Michael is telling you that no specific patch level is required for it to work on 8.1.

Oh alright, thank you for the reply, and sorry if this was a silly question.

[offenseman]

Hmmm. Not having any luck here. New laptop with 8.1 64 bit. Fairly high end graphics card and 4 core. I have tried many switch combinations and the best I come with is the game being a square with just over an inch margins on each side. I cannot get it to go to full screen or to adjust the window larger than it is.

I've tried -f -fd -w -wd switches as well as no switch of that type
Also tried no defined resolution which produced the same result above. using -px1900 or 1366 or 1600 made no difference. -py1080 failed even though the normal resolution of this system is 1920-1080.
Here is an example of what did work:
"C:\DBB-C\Beta2\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -py1356 -py768 -cpu5 -skipVideo -deepColor -dd_sw It worked the same as in my first paragraph and the same result came with: "C:\DBB-C\Beta2\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -py1920 -py1024 -cpu5 -skipVideo -deepColor -dd_sw as well as adding -f to either list. Trying any of the series of switches used successfully by others in this thread have not worked.

Any ideas?

[EHansen]

Start with -f -px1920 -py1080 and see if you get a full screen. After that we can work on switches for better performance.

[offenseman]

Ok tried that switch line and got an error. "Error: Can't set screen mode"