project-navigation
Personal tools

Author Topic: Crash vs full screen  (Read 11233 times)

excelcisbeo

  • Guest
Crash vs full screen
« on: January 18, 2008, 07:59:05 pm »
Hello, first my english writing is quite bad...so excuse me for that.

after installing and launching the game, i click on full screen mode.....then crash return vista .
how could i launch the game in primary full screen mode?
or maybe is there another way to fix it?

Config:
Msi EX600
vista 32
nvidia ge force 8400m g

thank you for your help.

ps: thank you for the game, i m fan

DuBBle

  • Guest
Re: Crash vs full screen
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2008, 09:00:43 pm »
I have the same problem, and I still love the game  ;D

My rig:
Vista 64
GeForce 8800GTS (latest drivers)
Intel Core 2 Quad

Offline BTAxis

  • Administrator
  • PHALANX Commander
  • *******
  • Posts: 2607
    • View Profile
Re: Crash vs full screen
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2008, 09:22:36 pm »
This seems to be a recurring problem on vista. You could try running the game with
ufo.exe +set vid_fullscreen 1
Or if that doesn't work, you can just play it windowed with the mouse grab turned on:
ufo.exe +set vid_grabmouse 1

DuBBle

  • Guest
Re: Crash vs full screen
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2008, 09:38:34 pm »
This seems to be a recurring problem on vista. You could try running the game with
ufo.exe +set vid_fullscreen 1
Or if that doesn't work, you can just play it windowed with the mouse grab turned on:
ufo.exe +set vid_grabmouse 1

That's brilliant! I set fullsceen and my problem is now resolved  ;D Thanks BT!

excelcisbeo

  • Guest
Re: Crash vs full screen
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2008, 10:14:59 pm »
This seems to be a recurring problem on vista. You could try running the game with
ufo.exe +set vid_fullscreen 1
Or if that doesn't work, you can just play it windowed with the mouse grab turned on:
ufo.exe +set vid_grabmouse 1

i'm probably a newby, but i don't know how to run ufo.exe and set vid_fullscreen 1
i think i have to work into my console but , i don't know how to do this.
thank you


Offline BTAxis

  • Administrator
  • PHALANX Commander
  • *******
  • Posts: 2607
    • View Profile
Re: Crash vs full screen
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2008, 10:21:21 pm »
You can call up the console and enter vid_fulscreen 1 there, but chances are that that won't work. What I meant is, you should try to start the game that way. Open up a CMD console, cd into the UFO:AI directory and enter the command as I wrote it.

excelcisbeo

  • Guest
Re: Crash vs full screen
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2008, 10:49:26 pm »
You can call up the console and enter vid_fulscreen 1 there, but chances are that that won't work. What I meant is, you should try to start the game that way. Open up a CMD console, cd into the UFO:AI directory and enter the command as I wrote it.

i think my console control doesn't work.

programfiles/UFOAI-2.2/ufo-ded.exe   ( is it the cmd console?)

if yes this command doen't start with my vista.... (if you speak french it will be more easy to explain to me lol)

i m a really noob , i really don't know how to use console lol

sorry about that , i can understand everything but you have to consider me like a noob lol
           

Offline BTAxis

  • Administrator
  • PHALANX Commander
  • *******
  • Posts: 2607
    • View Profile
Re: Crash vs full screen
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2008, 12:32:34 am »
No, no, the CMD console is part of windows. You can use it by opening your start menu, selecting "run" (well, you're French, so it's probably "le run" or something), and entering "cmd". Then you have to type "cd <path>" whre <path> is the place where you have UFO:AI, for example C:\Program Files\UFO:AI.
And then you type ufo.exe +set vid_fullscreen 1.

DuBBle

  • Guest
Re: Crash vs full screen
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2008, 04:32:29 am »
Alternatively you can right-click on the UFO shortcut on your desktop, click on Properties, look for the 'Target' box, and enter '+set vid_fullscreen 1' with a space and without the inverted commas, so that the Target line reads:

D:\Games\UFOAI-2.2\ufo.exe +set vid_fullscreen 1

(with D:\Games replaced with wherever you decided to store UFO)

excelcisbeo

  • Guest
Re: Crash vs full screen
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2008, 01:12:29 pm »
I've learned alot about windows
thanks alot to everyone.
my problem is fixed
:)

firda

  • Guest
Re: Crash vs full screen
« Reply #10 on: March 05, 2008, 01:10:29 pm »
for me (other config if you have seen my post relating to atioglxx.dll)
it crashes when I change any of:
a) fullscreen/windows
b) resolution

so the Q:
How can I specify resolution on command line?

leimrod

  • Guest
Re: Crash vs full screen
« Reply #11 on: March 12, 2008, 09:04:27 pm »
so the Q:
How can I specify resolution on command line?

I'd be interested in the answer to this also. I'm using Vista Ultimate 64bit.

I've fixed the issue with the game crashing when I tried to go to fullscreen by editing the config.cfg file at "C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\UFOAI\2.2\base\" and changing the line set vid_fullscreen "0" to set vid_fullscreen "1"

But I can't seem to increase the resolution past 1024x768, i've tried changing the config.cfg settings to:

set vid_height "1024"
set vid_width "1280"

but it doesn't work :( anyone any advice?

Stroemvall

  • Guest
Re: Crash vs full screen
« Reply #12 on: November 23, 2008, 10:43:20 am »
set vid_fullscreen "1"
set vid_mode "19"                <-----
set vid_grabmouse "0"
set vid_gamma "1"
set vid_height "1920"
set vid_width "1200"

thats the way my files look and it works!

 set vid_mode =  your screnn res. number   

{ 1680, 1050,= 18 },
{ 1920, 1200,= 19 },
{ 1400, 1050,= 20 },
{ 1440, 900, =21 }

mfg stroemvall




odie

  • Guest
Re: Crash vs full screen
« Reply #13 on: May 04, 2009, 08:26:22 pm »
some times when I am playing urban terror (FPS) or other games on my linux box (it has a 64MB nvidia GPU and 1GB of ram) the games just warp out of full screen. One min I am owning noob perfectly fine, the next its kind of frozen. The game leaves full screen and becomes stuck in a small box in the top left corner of the screen. It is still running, but I cant find the mouse to click back on the window.

The only solution so far is to crtl+ald+delete (that takes me back to the login window)
then I have to restart my game, this is very frustrating

plz help
mani

oh and the computer is running ubuntu 7.10.

Eh.... wats this for?? Seemed like a forum-digged.....

goodwill, wat is ur issue here anyway?? UFOAI related at all??

AND btw, if its ubuntu related issues with UFOAI, pls state revision nos of UFOAI u r playing, more computer specs, and pls post it here instead.

Offline bayo

  • Professional loser
  • Project Coder
  • Captain
  • ***
  • Posts: 733
    • View Profile
Re: Crash vs full screen
« Reply #14 on: May 04, 2009, 09:02:35 pm »
"le run" ;D