Forcing A Program To Start In 800*600?

DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can't Comm.England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
edited March 2004 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">Warcraft 3 Is Giving Me Hassles :(</div> Everytime I start up Warcraft 3 (patched or unpatched) the
screen flickers and I can't see anything. I have to press ESC
twice to exit the game altogether.
I download the video test tool from Blizzard and all the resolutions
up to 800*600 run fine. It's just when I hit 1024*768 (i've
tried both the OpenGL and DirectX options) I get the corruption.

It's pretty weird because I run ALL my games (except X2) in
1024*768 (32 bit colour).

My nVidia drivers are fine and all my Windows Updates are in place.

I'm running out of idea's for a fix.
Anyone got any sugestions?


System:
XP 2800 Processor (2.25ghz)
nVidia MSI GeForce FX 560 (256 DDR)
1 Gig of DDR (2100) Ram.
80 Gig Hard-Drive (57 free)
Soundblaster Live 5.1
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  • DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can&#39;t Comm. England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
    No-one can offer ANY advice what-so-ever? <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> Aww
    In that case... anyone want to buy a cheap, barely used
    copy (its an original) of Warcraft 3?
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  • OttoDestructOttoDestruct Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7790Members
    Try running it in windowed mode and switch to that resolution in the game. Create a shortcut to the exe file, and put -window (i think thats the command) in the command line of the shortcut properties.
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  • weggyweggy Join Date: 2003-06-04 Member: 16998Members
    Also, you can look around in the game directory and see if theres a "settings.ini" or "config.ini" or something along those lines. Resolution will probably be in there.
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  • DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can&#39;t Comm. England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
    OttoDestruct - Nice idea but I now get the distorted screen... in a window <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
    Weggy - There's no user.ini config.cfg etc etc files either <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    The Blizzard forums are useless <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    I think i'll sell it to pay for another month of PlanetSide.
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  • OttoDestructOttoDestruct Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7790Members
    Find a forum asking people if they have problems with youre version of drivers and WCIII then or email their tech support. Or perhaps try reinstalling WCIII?
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  • Bill_DoorBill_Door Join Date: 2003-01-04 Member: 11792Members
    In Windows XP, you can use the compatability settings to force it to run at 640*480 and /or 256 colours. Not a lot of help if you've not got Windows XP though.
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