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Can;'t keep TGB from coming up fullscreen

by Ed Averill · in Torque Game Builder · 08/19/2006 (9:23 am) · 11 replies

Ok, I bought TGB. I want to register it. I want to cut and paste the key.. but it seems that the normal Windows method doesn't work (or I'm stupid).

So, I want it to NOT come up fullscreen so I can copy the key out of Notepad. Well, the bloody stupid fullscreen button in Preferences doesn't seem to work!

Windows version, purchased and downloaded yesterday. Standard Indie one, not Pro.

All help appreciated before I feel like hitting someone with a brick (we are easily frustrated today, we are). Thanks!

ps. Sorry about the typo in the subject, but it appears you can't edit the subject once it's posted.
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    Torque Owner Ben R Vesco
    #1
    08/19/2006 (9:39 am)
    It is certainly possible that your video card only supports fullscreen mode. If that is the case then TGB detects it and prevents you from going out of full screen mode. You can try opening up games/common/preferences/prefs.cs and setting fullscreen to "0" and see what happens.

    Torque Owner Ed Averill
    #2
    08/19/2006 (9:46 am)
    Ugh, no joy. It was a great idea, though! :-)

    My card is an old but capable Radeon 9600xt an I can't believe that it doesn't support the needed mode, but stranger things have happened.

    I also own a TGE license and THAT comes up in windowed mode, so I guess the card must somehow support it... unless TGB uses some video mode that TGE doesn't.

    Can anyone recommend a video card that DOES handle TGB in windowed mode?

    Torque Owner Ben R Vesco
    #3
    08/19/2006 (9:50 am)
    Ok, I would be pretty sure the 9600xt supports windowed mode. I was just wondering if you were using some crazy intel integrated graphics or something. Try loading one of the projects that came with TGB that you haven't modified yet. I seem to remember having some problem with getting out of fullscreen when I was using one particular project once. I'm out of suggestions other than that for right now then.

    Anyone else?

    Torque 3D Owner Jacopo De Luca
    Default Studio Name
    #4
    08/19/2006 (10:34 am)
    Hi, Ed.
    What is your desktop resolution and colour depth? Maybe your configuration is conflicting with TGB. Try changing it.
    You should also try to disable any desktop manager software, if you have one.

    Hope you solve your problem!

    Bye,
    Jacopo

    Torque Owner Ed Averill
    #5
    08/20/2006 (9:23 am)
    Desktop res is 1280x1024, 16-bit color. I'm not running any desktop managers, either.

    Let me poke around and see what I can do..

    Thanks everyone for the help! :-)

    *edit* Switched to 32-bit color and now it's in a window! Yaaayyyy!! :-) :-)

    /me is a happier camper now!

    Torque Owner Daniel Dewey
    #6
    02/02/2009 (7:43 pm)
    Well now I'm having a problem. I launch the TGB Gui, I've already changed the values above, including 32-bit color and preferences. It still switches the entire desktop from my 1680x1050 resolution to 800x600, and it switches the 32-bit color to 16-bit color. I have a NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT, Windows XP Pro, with the latest updates. The thing that confuses me the most is that I haven't changed anything that would have done this, it just started acting this why for no reason.

    Torque Owner Daniel Dewey
    #7
    02/03/2009 (12:58 pm)
    I figured out what I had to do. I uninstalled TGB, cleaned up my registry and reinstalled TGB. If that doesn't work, do the previous again, only this time install an older version of TGB, then install the latest version again. It should work again.

    Torque 3D Owner Chris Jorgensen
    Cascadia Games LLC
    #8
    02/04/2009 (8:39 am)
    I'd just force it when the game starts like this:

    setScreenMode(1024,768,32,0);

    The last one is a bit that if 1 sets full screen and 0 for windowed. Note if the resolution matches your screen res, it will automatically go full.

    Torque 3D Owner Simon Jensen
    SwiftThought Games
    #9
    02/05/2009 (8:14 pm)
    Fun Little FYI for the GG doc guy,
    if you search the TGB 174 web doc for setScreenMode
    you get 0 results.

    Is it in there at all?

    Employee Michael Perry
    GarageGames
    #10
    02/05/2009 (8:29 pm)
    @Simon - Guess not, but when in doubt check TDN:

    http://tdn.garagegames.com/wiki/TorqueScript_Console_Functions_12

    I'll probably have my intern create a new ConsoleFunctions page for the official docs, so it will be easier to find.



    Torque 3D Owner Simon Jensen
    SwiftThought Games
    #11
    02/05/2009 (8:44 pm)
    I'm heading out of town for the next 4 days and was planning on getting a bunch of stuff written, problem is I'll have absolutely no access to the web..Yeah.. it's literally a farm out in the middle of nowhere..

    So I'm sorry, I'm just trying to pack everything I need to have a killer weekend and make a bunch of progress and this threw me for a loop..

    Thanks for the Wiki link. Snagged a pdf version for reference.