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OK, how do you play Dom in windowed mode on the Mac. I used to know how, but I have forgotten, and can't find it on the boards. I'm playing on my new Mac now, and I can't shell out to the desktop like I always did on the PC.

Re: Mac window mode

never mind. found it. right in the video prefs, where it should be.

Isn't there a terminal command to launch it windowed though?

Re: Mac window mode

Sure, there are a couple of commands for video options. With dom3 -h you can see them all.

Code:

******* Video Options *******

-w  --window        Run Dominions 3 in a window

-u  --fullscreen    Use the entire screen

    --bitplanes X   Try to use a color depth of X bits per pixel

    --zbuffer X     Try to use a depth buffer of X bits per pixel (default=16)

-T  --textonly      Use this with --tcpserver to get graphicless server

    --gamma X       Set gamma function (brightness) 0.1 - 5.0 (default=1.0)

    --opacity X     Set gui opacity 0 - 100

-r  --res X Y       Set screen resolution / window size (default=1024 768)

    --animback      Use animated backgrounds

-a  --noanimback    Don't use animated backgrounds

    --fade          Use fade effects

-f  --nofade        No fade effects

    --nopopups      No helpful popups

    --fps X         Aim for this nbr of frames per second (default=20)

    --maxfps X      Maximum nbr of frames per second (default=50)

    --filtering X   Quality of OpenGL filtering 0-3 (default=2)

    --maxtexsize X  Max texture size in pixels 32-4096 (default=unlimited)

    --treequal X    Tree quality 1-5 (default=3)

    --texqual X     Texture quality 1-5 (default=3)

    --nolightfx     No light effects in battles

    --partamount X  Max nbr of particles 0-8 (0=none, 4=default, 8=max)

    --nograss       Don't draw the grass

    --noarcade      Don't draw floating damage numbers

    --noglext       Don't use any OpenGL extensions

    --vsync         Enable vsync

-V  --novsync       Disable vsync

    --renderpath X  Use different optimizations 0-1 (0=good for low mem cards)

-x  --fastgrx       Faster graphics (use 3 times for best performance (-xxx))

-p  --perftest      Run a performance test and exit

Re: Mac window mode

You can switch back and forth from windowed to full screen on a Mac with control-tab. I swear it used to be option-tab in an earlier version. Does anyone else remember that, or has my memory entirely failed?

Re: Mac window mode

Thanks very much lch. You as well djo.

Re: Mac window mode

alt-enter works as well (on mac and windows) and (AFAIK) is the official hotkey for it.

Re: Mac window mode

That's what I was trying to remember! I have no idea how I managed to stumble on control-tab. Too many years of running Windows (via RDC) and Linux (via ssh) from a Mac keyboard makes me mash a lot of modifier keys, I guess.

Re: Mac window mode

I totally understand that. :)
I have the same problem.