Widescreen support

[ETF]

Ok tried this for starters

C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -px1920 –py1200 -skipVideo -w

same result though. Still only using about 40% of my 24 inch monitor. Hmm maybe I should reboot the machine and try again.....

will try 1680 x 1050 next time.....

[Reg]

I can see your problem. If you look very carefully you will see the dash in front of the px is a different length* than the dash in front of the py (you cut and pasted the line didn't you?).

Try deleting the dashes and replacing them with the minus on your keyboard.

Don't feel bad as you will have been about the 597th person caught by this one!! [:(]
It is caused by the auto correct feature on the text editor used to create the document you were reading.

* (They are called the "em dash" and "en dash" for those interested enough to look them up on Google...)

You are also missing the " at the start of the line (I assume you just missed copy and pasting it to the forum).

[Reg]

These all work for me on a 1920x1200 monitor: (you may need to play with the flags to suit your setup)

Fullscreen:

"C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -d -altFont -cpu2 -dd_sw -px1920 -py1200

"C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -d -dd_sw -px1280 -py800

Windowed (should be smaller than your monitor)

"C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -wd -altFont -cpu2 -dd_sw -px1600 -py1200

"C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -wd -altFont -cpu2 -dd_sw -px1680 -py1050

Best of luck,

[Reg]

ORIGINAL: ETF

oh ok thanks sir. May I ask is -cpu2 dual core? What is -dd_sw? And mutliaudio? Archive?

The following information is extracted from the WhatsNew.pdf file in your WITP-AE game folder. Well worth a read!!

-cpu# : (cpu1, cpu2, cpu3, cpu4) Switches set the cpu affinity for multi cpu systems. If used alone, the -cpu# switches will keep the game running on the CPU specified all the time.

-dd_sw : Handles DirectDraw via Software. We’ve found this can make a huge difference on many systems as far as reducing interface lag and making button clicking in-game more responsive. On a few newer systems this can cause some visual glitches and slow combat animations though, so give it a try and remove it if it’s not ideal on your system.

-multiaudio : Invokes a fix that changes audio timing for multicore machines.

Try these switches in different combinations to see what works best for your system as what works well on one may not be ideal for another. However, we have yet to find a system that didn’t benefit at all from at least one of these switches performance-wise, so test them out!

-archive : Put data reports in archive directory (inside the save game folder)

I hope this helps,

[Shark7]

Let me ask a dumb question regarding video.

Currently, I have the widescreen setup with my command line switches, so it works fine.

However, I have recently gotten a new computer with an ATI Radeon 7770 (this is my first Radeon, I've been a GeForce user for years) and I've noticed on some of my older games, it automatically resized the games to fit the screen. Would AE also work this way with this card?

I'm just curious if the command line switch is necessary with these newer cards.

[Dan Nichols]

I would say yes they are. The Command Line switches tell the program how to display the screen.

[ETF]

ORIGINAL: Reg


These all work for me on a 1920x1200 monitor: (you may need to play with the flags to suit your setup)

Fullscreen:

"C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -d -altFont -cpu2 -dd_sw -px1920 -py1200

"C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -d -dd_sw -px1280 -py800

Windowed (should be smaller than your monitor)

"C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -wd -altFont -cpu2 -dd_sw -px1600 -py1200

"C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -wd -altFont -cpu2 -dd_sw -px1680 -py1050

Best of luck,

Thanks Reg so much. The 1920 x 1200 looks great just really hard to see the finer details. Must be my 42 year old eyes. Seemed exactly the same. Thanks though for all your help.
Went back to the old 1280x800.