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Jalida
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Play in a window not working?

June 26, 2008 3:56:25 AM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums
I change the option (uncheck it) to remove the checkmark next to play fullscreen, then restart the game but it loads up fullscreen again anyway.  I this time checkmark the option and restart the game and it's in fullscreen again, rinse and repeat.

How do I get these GalCiv games to play in a window?
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taivm
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Reply #1 June 26, 2008 4:46:23 AM
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Try reducing the game resolution, perhaps?
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Reply #2 June 26, 2008 6:21:17 AM
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Good call, thanks. Once I reduced it to the next lowest widescreen resolution sure enough it started up in a window.

My appreciation goes out to ya.
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pndrev
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Reply #3 June 26, 2008 7:25:18 AM
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Even if you have the normal desktop resolution and the game screen fills up the monitor, it still is 'windowed' - e.g. you can switch to other stuff on your second monitor without TA minimising.
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Reply #4 June 26, 2008 10:16:20 PM
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Good call, thanks. Once I reduced it to the next lowest widescreen resolution sure enough it started up in a window.My appreciation goes out to ya.


Ya welcome.
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Reply #5 July 11, 2008 4:28:05 PM
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Even if you have the normal desktop resolution and the game screen fills up the monitor, it still is 'windowed' - e.g. you can switch to other stuff on your second monitor without TA minimising.


Thanks,
I've been running in SLI for so long now and that even though I don't think that TotA really benefits from it, I've never thought about turning it off (Nvidia problem) so that I could turn back on my 2nd LED monitor sitting next to my widescreen, however since you've brought it up, I think I might give it a go since I found some program that lists tech and what not for TotA that I could see being useful running on my second monitor.
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Reply #6 July 11, 2008 4:57:47 PM
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I play w/ 2 monitors and the one tip I will give you: The game 'freezes' if you are actively not in the game. So if you planned on hitting the turn button and then checking the baseball scores while it thought, make sure you click back for the game to be the current application since it'll pause until it is. I often quickly click out into my browser and have it start loading pages, then click to the game so it can continue thinking.
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