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ORIGINAL: leethompson

Hi everyone again
Laptop has Win10
12 gig of Ram
AMD A10-8700P Radeon R6 1.8GHz 64
Received my copy of WITP AE updated it to 1.7.11.24 and reviewed this forum.
Added the following:
-f -px1280 -py1024 -altFont -skipVideo -dd_sw -archive -SingleCpuOrders -deepColor into the shortcut
This sped up the game but it is still slower than the old game - any further advice to help speed up the game?
Cheers in advance

What .exe are you addressing in the Target? Make sure it is the game's .exe and not autorun.exe.

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: leethompson

Hi everyone again
Laptop has Win10
12 gig of Ram
AMD A10-8700P Radeon R6 1.8GHz 64
Received my copy of WITP AE updated it to 1.7.11.24 and reviewed this forum.
Added the following:
-f -px1280 -py1024 -altFont -skipVideo -dd_sw -archive -SingleCpuOrders -deepColor into the shortcut
This sped up the game but it is still slower than the old game - any further advice to help speed up the game?
Cheers in advance

What .exe are you addressing in the Target? Make sure it is the game's .exe and not autorun.exe.

Create a shortcut from the game .exe file, then add your switches to the shortcut.

ORIGINAL: Admiral DadMan

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: leethompson

Hi everyone again
Laptop has Win10
12 gig of Ram
AMD A10-8700P Radeon R6 1.8GHz 64
Received my copy of WITP AE updated it to 1.7.11.24 and reviewed this forum.
Added the following:
-f -px1280 -py1024 -altFont -skipVideo -dd_sw -archive -SingleCpuOrders -deepColor into the shortcut
This sped up the game but it is still slower than the old game - any further advice to help speed up the game?
Cheers in advance

What .exe are you addressing in the Target? Make sure it is the game's .exe and not autorun.exe.

Create a shortcut from the game .exe file, then add your switches to the shortcut.

You are correct, that is a great way to make a shortcut. But... I am asking leethompson what .exe is actaully named in the Target box of his current shortcut. [8D]

Cheers
I applied the "-f -px1280 -py1024 -altFont -skipVideo -dd_sw -archive -SingleCpuOrders -deepColor" into the target within the shortcut on my desktop (derived from the installation).
Should I make a new shortcut directly from the exe file?

ORIGINAL: leethompson

Cheers
I applied the "-f -px1280 -py1024 -altFont -skipVideo -dd_sw -archive -SingleCpuOrders -deepColor" into the target within the shortcut on my desktop (derived from the installation).
Should I make a new shortcut directly from the exe file?

Yes, or you can edit the one you have already. If you look at the .exe that is being addressed in the target, and it is something like autorun.exe then it is wrong. The game will run but will not honor all the switches as you want.

thanks I will give it a go
Will let you know

WoW - thanks very much - 1000% quicker - Cheers guys - you nailed it!!!!!!!

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Alfred

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy



It isn't just Win 10. I am running Win 7 and this returning to the desktop started occurring earlier this year and it coincides with flashing lights on my modem, so I presume it is a program communicating with the Internet or reacting to something incoming, like the Anti-Virus intercepting an attempted hack.
Most times it is a minor inconvenience to return to WITP-AE, but when this occurs in the middle of some intense combat replay action .... [:@]

If you have Microsoft Downloads enabled, not only do the regular patches get downloaded but they will be installed at a predetermined moment. You will usually be given about a 10 minute warning before the downloads get applied but it is very easy to not notice the warning and thus fail to reschedule the update. Unless rescheduled your computer will be automatically closed down in order to finish installation of the Microsoft updates.

Alfred

Quite true - I usually do see the warning and defer the restart until I can close out of everything running, but have occasionally lost work because of an unexpected restart. The anti-virus program also does this, insisting on a restart ASAP.

However the behaviour I was referring to is just a minimizing of the active WITP-AE screen while nothing visible is happening on the computer (just on the modem). There is no subsequent restart or warning messages. No update messages. And no problem resuming the game or other program with no loss of work.

Anyone fix this issues apart from running the game in window mode? It's annoying but not a game killing issue. Thanks, Ray

I installed War in the Pacific Ae on my new computer and it refuses to scroll. I have Windows 10 installed. I noticed that every solution revolves around switches. Until now I have never had to use switches in any other game.
I go to the shortcut and in the target block is "C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\autorun.exe" and in the start in block is "C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition". The run block is Normal window.
I need the help of smarter people.

First off all switches are applied to the Quick Start shortcut, never the one that takes you to "autorun.exe". All switches have a dash '-' in front of them, all are separated by spaces, and all go outside the quotes at the end of the command line. Unfortunately every machine is a bit different, so the switches that will work for you are different than what worked for someone else. -w usually helps better with modern monitors and video cards, many have found -deepColor helps with Windows 10, and with multiple core processors, usually something like -cpu1 helps with lag between clicks and something happening.

If you haven't installed the patches, you will have to install at least patch 1 for most of the switches, the latest patch is strongly recommended. Once the patches are installed, you will have a PDF which is a mini-manual update, the switches added for patch 1 are documented in there.

Bill

I followed your advise and installed a patch and it improved the situation slightly. However when I put -deepColor
in it wouldn't accept it. I'm not sure where the Quick Start shortcut is or where it is. Here's what I did

right click Pacific icon, clicked on properties and brought up shortcut. I added -deepColor to the start in box

A message poped up: The folder "C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition" -deepColor. Specified in the Start in box is not valid. Make sure that the folder
exists and the path is correct.

Bill

I have tried all the tricks mentioned here. I want my game to show up full screen. I have tried -f and -w and -wd. Any other ideas. I am having a hard time with a small game window on a big screen.

Help[:(]

ORIGINAL: DOCUP

I have tried all the tricks mentioned here. I want my game to show up full screen. I have tried -f and -w and -wd. Any other ideas. I am having a hard time with a small game window on a big screen.

Help[:(]

I want you to do a couple of things. First, go to your shortcut that you are using. Click in the Target box. Type "control-a" to select all of it. Paste that entire thing into your reply. Do not re-type it here: copy & paste it here as I have asked.

The second thing is, tell me about your PC. What is it? Are you running Windows 10 (don't want to assume that just because you posted in this thread!)? What is the video resolution that you normally use? If you are unsure, right-click on your desktop and click on Display Settings. When the Settings window opens, click on Advanced Display Settings and then look at Resolution. The one that is in the box is the one you are currently running. Does it say (Recommended)? Notice that if you click on the box it will display the other choices that you have.

Witpqs: "C:\AE\Beta2\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -wd-dd_sw switch-f-wd

Dell All in One: AMD A8. AMD Radeon R5 2.2 GHz. 64bit. Win 10 home. recommended resolution is 1920 1080 and that is what I am running.

Thanks

Joe

I think you are missing spaces. Try this at the end

-wd -dd_sw -f -wd

KHawk

ORIGINAL: KHawk

I think you are missing spaces. Try this at the end

-wd -dd_sw -f -wd

KHawk

Agree, and one other thing. The -f means "'full screen mode". But the "w" in -wd means "windowed mode". You have to remove either the -f or the w, leaving in the one you want.

@Docup
Settings i am suggesting to use

-f -px1920 -py1080 -dd_sw -cpu4 -deepColor -SingleCpuOrders

Those settings remove most of issues i had with windows 10
I am also running game under Windows 7 compatibility mode with Administrator rights

I have a new laptop with windows 10 so I loaded the game and added upgrade 1.7.1124. Trying switches per Wdolson and WITPQS instructions but not able to get them to work yet. My question is should I have loaded other updates besides the one I did or is that one sufficient?

Ok, I'm good except for full screen, trying -f and -fd but those haven't worked, is there another switch for full screen?

got it. just wasted some typing space today. [:)]

ORIGINAL: LST Express

got it. just wasted some typing space today. [:)]

OK! So you're good now, right? BTW, AFAIK the default is the same as using the f switch. If you have the w switch, that makes it be windowed. But used the f switch or no switch at all means "full screen". Having both of those switches is just an error.