No Fullscreen

mamnich24 · #1 December 26th, 2019, 06:34 PM

Dear Guys,
Just downloaded and patched WinSPWW2 and WinSPMBT.
WinSPMBT will play in fullscreen, but I get SAL errors trying to run WinSPWW2 in fullscreen.
Seems one should work just as well as the other.
Suggestions?
I'm using Windows 10
Thanks,
Mike

Mobhack · #2 December 26th, 2019, 09:07 PM

If one game works then so should the other. Try to think of anything different you did for each game's installs, and then reinstall the same way. For example - did you use any of window's compatibility modes on the one exe and not the other?

Also - Full-screen mode is an unsupported legacy mode left over from MSDOS and XP days. If it works on a particular modern PC then that is entirely by good fortune. Desktop resolution in Windowed mode replaces it.

DRG · #3 December 27th, 2019, 10:45 AM

The fact that you got MBT to run fullscreen with win10 is remarkable. Neither Andy or I can but neither of us would ever use fullscreen mode even if it did work for us.

As Andy said full screen is no longer a supported mode. The games run spectacularly well in windows desktop mode and you can find screenshots of it running at 5120 x 2880 (!!).

It will also run quite well with Borderless gaming if you don't like playing with the lower taskbar showing .

Don