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Old March 18th, 2011, 12:14 AM
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Default Re: WinSPMBT v5.5-- NOW AVAILABLE

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Originally Posted by RightDeve View Post
And one more thing I just noticed:
I can't select/change the GDI/DirectX setting on Game Mode inside the GameOptions.exe, it is gray-shaded & fixed to GDI. My DirectX is on version 11 (I'm using ATI Radeon HD 5770, driver version 8.762.0.0). Could this be related to the problem?
This has been explained in the sticky Post Andy put up the day the patch was released entitled

Windows Vista and Windows Seven Installation

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Certain things apply in Vista or Windows 7:

2.1) - In Windowed Mode, the GDI graphics mode is pre-selected.

Using this mode instead of DirectX solves the problems with the Windows Aero interface destroying the game palette if you minimised it. (Aero will still destroy the palette even if you selected 256 colour mode, and disable desktop composition etc in the "compatibility mode" dialogue for the executable).

As well, all that info is on page one of the game guide in the

Tuning Your Machine

Section

What version of DirectX you use is irrelevant to what Win7 does

Don

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