Full Screen & WinEQ

[John Stark]

Originally Posted by paulgiamatti [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just out of curiosity, why do you want to play in fullscreen mode? You can make windowed EQ fill your entire screen which eliminates the need to alt-tab altogether.

Thanks for the reply.

I actually don't care about full screen mode, per se. If I could get WinEQ to work properly and play the game such that it looks like the screen shot you posted, I'd be happy with that.

I don't care about alt+tab either, its just an old habit of mine from playing various games when I want to get to the desktop or another program I have open.

Basically, I read here that WinEQ can solve the issues of full screen vs. windowed that can crop up, and that it improves game play since I seem to be having some lag issues as well.

After installing WinEQ, I simply could not get the game to play in 1920 x 1080, either in full screen or windowed mode. The best resolution I could get with WinEQ in windowed was 1680 x 1050, and full screen didn't work at all, so I uninstalled it just to be able to play at my laptop's resolution.

With WinEQ and 1680 x 1050 resolution, the game window itself was only about 3/4 of the size of my screen, and I simply could not make it larger. Thus, both the resolution was off, and the window itself was way too small to play EQ comfortably.

[paulgiamatti]

Try these settings:
WindowedWidth=1920
WindowedHeight=1012
Width=1920
Height=1080
FullscreenBitsPerPixel=32
FullscreenRefreshRate=0
WidthWindowed=1920
HeightWindowed=1080

and change WindowedMode=FALSE to WindowedMode=TRUE

It took a bit of experimenting to get my windowed resolution perfect, but it's definitely worth it. I just subtracted from the WindowedHeight value until the taskbar was completely visible, and until there were no graphical artifacts.

Also, I had to mess with the WindowedModeXOffset and WindowedModeYOffset values so it would start up already positioned as it looks in the screenshot. My current settings are:
WindowedModeXOffset=-3
WindowedModeYOffset=0

[loramin]

Originally Posted by paulgiamatti [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Try these settings:
WindowedWidth=1920
WindowedHeight=1012
Width=1920
Height=1080
FullscreenBitsPerPixel=32
FullscreenRefreshRate=0
WidthWindowed=1920
HeightWindowed=1080

and change WindowedMode=FALSE to WindowedMode=TRUE

It took a bit of experimenting to get my windowed resolution perfect, but it's definitely worth it. I just subtracted from the WindowedHeight value until the taskbar was completely visible, and until there were no graphical artifacts.

Also, I had to mess with the WindowedModeXOffset and WindowedModeYOffset values so it would start up already positioned as it looks in the screenshot. My current settings are:
WindowedModeXOffset=-3
WindowedModeYOffset=0

This is how I play, and inspired by your write-up Paul I added a wiki entry for this:

http://wiki.project1999.com/User_Int...ndowed.22_Mode

(And of course, if anyone sees any way to improve that page please don't ask for my permission, just improve it, it's a wiki!)