game won't load past opening screen

[leftydad]

I moved to a new computer and re-downloaded the game and the new patch. It had worked okay on my old computer. Now, though, it won’t load past the opening artwork screen.
I’m using windows 11 with 2560x1440 resolution. I’ve changed the video folder to no_video.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, James

[simovitch]

right click the btr.exe and set properties to "run as administrator". Let me know if that works or not.

[leftydad]

No, didn't work. I tried also to run the original version of the game on this computer...hangs on opening screen. And again tried with the new patch...hangs on opening screen, although the resolution makes the opening screen too large for my monitor.

(And I watched "12 O'clock High tonight!!!)

It ran on my old computer and it was also 64 bit.

[simovitch]

Have you tried running it through dxwnd?

[leftydad]

I see where I can download that program. Is there someplace that explains how to use the program? I see where I can import a DX file from the game directory. But I don't know what to do after that.
Thanks for the suggestion.

[simovitch]

It's explained in this thread: https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... 9&t=333695 but the problem is you have to at least get to the first screen to open the 'options' menu and click off both window mode and 'set directdraw software..'

The only other thing I can think of is the settings on your video card, but I can't really help you through that.

[leftydad]

Looks hopeless....

[simovitch]

You might try fiddling with compatibility settings under properties when you right-click the btr.exe. Try setting this to Windows 7 or 8 compatibility. Maybe someone who had success with W11 can chime in here.

[leftydad]

Thanks. I've fiddled with about every setting there is in Properties, but I'll try again.

If anybody else out there is having success with Win 11, please let me know.

[kendoyle659]

Have you tried changing the High DPI Scaling override in the Compatibility settings for the .exe file. Until I tagged this override high DPI scaling behaviour and set it to Application I could not see all of the menu on the loading screen. Please give me a shout if you need more info.

[leftydad]

I did a fresh install of the game and the update. I checked the DPI override. But now (even before the DPI setting override) I'm getting an error the instant I try to launch the game: ERROR Can't Set Screen Mode.

Any idea what is causing that?

This must have something to do with Windows 11. Although all my other Matrix games (and I have most of them) run okay in Windows 11. I realize that BTR came out a long, long time ago, but I was hoping it would work with this new computer.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[leftydad]

Well, don't ask me how or why, but I went back to properties and set compatibility to Win 8 and tried it and now it works. I know that last week I tried all kinds of compatibility settings with no success, but today for some miraculous reason it works (takes a long time to load into a scenario and i have an extremely powerful computer, but, heck, it works).

Thanks for all the help and I guess this post is Case Closed.