Screen Problems.
PepeNZ
Join Date: 2009-05-26 Member: 67485Members
Join Date: 2009-05-26 Member: 67485Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Dual screen perhaps the issue? Anyone else?</div>Hi There
I run windows 7 x64 dual screened and i think that this has caused my NS2 to crash badly
When i FIRST started it up it was a blank windowed box for a time and then eventually the i assume in game menu came up.
I went to options and un-checked "windowed mode" assuming this would make my game full screen.
Clicking back to the main menu, my whole main monitor went black and stayed that way except for a periodically appearing white mouse cursor while my secondary screen was flashing between black and my windows desktop.
Assuming there was no way to fix this now i uninstalled the game and redownloaded hoping to at least get back to when i first installed
Unfortunately this is not the case
i am still getting the exact same situation as before the re-install.
Can anyone offer a solution or suggestion?
I am in no way upset about this i must point out
I have participated in betas before which were close to unplayable and knew this is what could potentially happen when i shelled out my cash for my swish new black armor.
However if anyone out there can offer any suggestions on fixing the issue id be eternally greatful.
Many Thanks
Pep.
I run windows 7 x64 dual screened and i think that this has caused my NS2 to crash badly
When i FIRST started it up it was a blank windowed box for a time and then eventually the i assume in game menu came up.
I went to options and un-checked "windowed mode" assuming this would make my game full screen.
Clicking back to the main menu, my whole main monitor went black and stayed that way except for a periodically appearing white mouse cursor while my secondary screen was flashing between black and my windows desktop.
Assuming there was no way to fix this now i uninstalled the game and redownloaded hoping to at least get back to when i first installed
Unfortunately this is not the case
i am still getting the exact same situation as before the re-install.
Can anyone offer a solution or suggestion?
I am in no way upset about this i must point out
I have participated in betas before which were close to unplayable and knew this is what could potentially happen when i shelled out my cash for my swish new black armor.
However if anyone out there can offer any suggestions on fixing the issue id be eternally greatful.
Many Thanks
Pep.
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I deactivated my 2nd monitor and it's now running fine.
Then edit options.xml in notepad (open with > notepad)
find the line <fullscreen> change false to true
it should read
<!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1--><fullscreen>true</fullscreen><!--c2--></div><!--ec2-->
You can also change the resolution under
<!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1--><y-resolution>1080</y-resolution>
<x-resolution>1920</x-resolution><!--c2--></div><!--ec2-->
Hopefully i can find some program that will turn off my secondary monitor when running NS only, otherwise its the waiting game for when they release a fix for dual screeners.
I have too many other things i utilize my secondary monitor for to disable it :(
But all good ive waited this long for some kind of NS2, have no worries about waiting for a fix down the road :D
I just did what Luitjens suggested and im back to the window phew :)
thanks for that
altho i had to set as false as set to true is when it does the silly resolution thing.
I can run it fine if i have windowed mode set to on and then using the trick lut said above set my resolution manually to 1680 * 1050. Bit chunky but at least it fills my entire screen.
And yes i have the latest drivers.
Im running a 8800GT and the replies with people saying full screen works for dual screen seem to be from ATi users
any other nVidia users able to fullscreen out there?
only issue i have is unable to actualy play on a server lol... yes im in the same club as the rest of the world with that i know.... :*(
ya didnt mention ya on nVidia earlier but good to hear its not cheers :)
Same problem with dual screens. Had to actually unplug my second screen from the card to get it to launch, not simply turn the screen off. Was getting stuck on a black screen with mouse pointer flickering.
I also have an ATI 4870x2, and I've been running the NS2 engine test and alpha with 2 monitor., with NS2 in fullscreen on one monitor. Vista 64bit. The game runs regardless of settings, but with crossfire (Catalyst AI) enabled I get shadow/lighting flicker.
Hope that helps someone deduce the cause.
Hope that helps someone deduce the cause.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Hope you submitted that feedback to UW :)
This ATI/Nvidia thing sounds quite interesting. It does seem like it might be the Nvidia cards (I'm running an ATI as well).
Im not a programmer so i dont even know if thats possible.
But for an open alpha like this it would be a great general tool.
Proberbly a stupid thing to suggest but if you have a problem (lockup or this kind of screen issue) you press a key and it auto submits feedback about whats going on at the time of breakage.