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Great Job George!! 2 Quick dumb questions...
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2001 4:15 am
by isamu
How do run the game in a Windows box? I can't seem to find any other option than full screen. Also is DMute compatible with RTC?
Re: Great Job George!! 2 Quick dumb questions...
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2001 9:33 am
by George Gilbert
1 - It is highly unrecommended that you run RTC in a window (the frame rate plummets and the mouse gets very jerky), but it can be done (in a deliberately undocumented way!)
2 - No; the ammount of effort required to turn DMute into something that could handle the more flexible RTC format isn't justifiable - it would be almost as easy to write a new editor from scratch
hmm...
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2001 2:02 am
by isamu
Jerky even on an Anthlon 1.3gig processor?
And what is the undeliberate method you mentioned?
Re: Great Job George!! 2 Quick dumb questions...
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2001 8:57 am
by George Gilbert
On my (now) lowly PII-450 the frame rate drops from a stable 110fps fullscreen down to as low as single figures when running in windowed mode. There are also a load of colour issues as it doesn't like being started up in a strange environment, and fullscreen is a nice constant for it (I've got to fix this one!)
Re: Great Job George!! 2 Quick dumb questions...
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2001 9:36 am
by beowuuf
Aww, just tell him!
I constantly play on the windowed version (except to check bugs), and haven't noticed a significant drop (don't have the fps copunter running, so no reference apart from how it feels)
This was on a 400Mhz celeron, 128Mb ram, ati rage ..umm, dunno if anything else affects it.
Of course, there's not any reason to run in windowed mode really, and if George is warning against it then you know you are trying it at your own risk. Put:
FULLSCREEN NO
in the config file, and NEVER touch the window when the game is loading. Either click off of it and do other things, or leave it running (otherwise it will crash).
thanks guys:)
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2001 7:20 am
by isamu
It's no biggie, I just was planning on playing in W mode so incase my boss at work passes by I can just click on another window in the taskbar and tell him I'm working on an important report:)
Re: Great Job George!! 2 Quick dumb questions...
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2001 11:55 am
by beowuuf
LOL, nice plan : )
Try not to yell 'eat venoumous death you blue sons of chaos' or anything, when 'writing a report', it might worry your boss...
You can still alt-tab out of fullscreen, the problem with the
window is your mouse disappears when you go to the top window bar, so you have to guess at the minimise position or wait for the help info to pop up.