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The Ur-Quan Masters Re-Release => Technical Issues => Topic started by: Man on February 06, 2004, 11:35:57 pm



Title: Fullscreen mode
Post by: Man on February 06, 2004, 11:35:57 pm
I just installed the version 0.3, and it works perfectly while in windowed mode. However, when I try to switch it to fullscreen, it fails to work. The following lines are visible before the program terminates:

...
Initializing Screen.
Couldn't set 320x240x16 video mode: No video mode large enough for 320x240

Then it just simply quits.

My OS is windows 98 with a RIVA TNT2 graphics card.
Note: I have placed the -f parameter in the correct place, as all the other ones work...


Title: Re: Fullscreen mode
Post by: Michael Martin on February 07, 2004, 04:33:12 am
Interesting.  Maybe the TNT doesn't support 320x240?  Try not giving it a -r option.


Title: Re: Fullscreen mode
Post by: Culture20 on February 07, 2004, 07:39:30 am
It could be your monitor too;  Windows has a habit of not allowing what it _thinks_ is a bad resolution to a monitor based on what the monitor is read as with the plug&play stuff.

I've got an NVidia version of a Riva TNT2 (32MB) and it works at 320x240 for UQM in win2000, win98 and linux.  I haven't checked 16bit colors, I usually use 32 or 24 bit.


Title: Re: Fullscreen mode
Post by: man on February 07, 2004, 10:24:15 pm
Problem solved. It was simply a matter of switching to 32-bit colors. Now it works fine!