Bungle
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Joined: 7/15/2007 From: Ipswich, Sunny Queensland Status: offline
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New puter arrived, naturally first program loaded, Harp (actually the rest loaded during build). H3 config, screen set highest resolution (mm, feeling good), disable run in windows (a full screen of harp goodness) a couple of favourite map settings adjusted and away we go. Flashing and spluttering and all the assortments of weirdness guaranteed to make the owner of a shiney new box o silicon wafers sh*t and sceam NOOoooooo. Once my breathing had become regular I searched the mess that was the harp game screen, eventually managed to find the quit option and did just that, just as all was returning to normal I manage to catch a glimpse of harpoon blaming my 'out of date drivers' for the mess, ahh dogged finger pointing to the last, the bulldog spirit! A bull type spirit to be sure, but deffinitely not DOG..... OK, experiments were performed with run in and out of window and varying H3 screen resolutions etc, the problem has been identified, native resoltion on my laptop is 1440x900, max res in H3config is 1280x1024. The theory goes something like this 1280 goes into 1440 but that 1024, well only the the most persistant will try and get that to fit into 900. Not getting too technical, as you have probably guessed computerisationing not my strong point, autocad/photoshop me good, computer me bad! So getting to the guts of things, what do I do to get the full effect of all that wide screen goodness? 1024x768 resolution run in window is the best I can get and I have vista telling me it has had to downgrade colour/color pallet to suit harpoon. Other relevant information, Nvidia 8600GT card if that makes a difference.......??? Oh yeah, even at lower resolution running out of window produces some nerve wracking moments as the game loads. Just by the way, and dont tell anyone this, vista actually works ......... its even sort of good
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The Bungle "As so often happens, it's the self-proclaimed peacemakers that you really have to watch out for."
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