TGB and Vista

#1 Is there anything in the console log? What video card and driver are you running?

#2 Nothing in the log. It's running intergrated intel video, i know thats not the greatest, but I just wonder why I can't even see the window. Is anyone running it sucessfully on Vista? Maybe it is becasue my laptop doesn't have dedicated video?

#3 Try this - go into the games\common\preferences directory and edit the prefs.cs.

Set fullScreen="1" (you may also want to try no allowing opengl as well).

What I found was that if the windowed resolution isn't supported, then it does that. So you can then launch TGB, go into preferences and play around with the settings that are supported in a windowed environment.

So short answer - yes, I got TGB working on my Vista RC machine.

-Andrew

#4 Mike, I've gotten TGB running on Vista as well and had no issues.

#5 I tried the fullscreen thing and still no luck. I also tried disabling OpneGL in the prefs, and still nothing. When I get home I am going to try it on my bigger laptop, which has a seperate video card. This one has shared video. Maybe that is part of the problem. I'll post my results

#6 I have this problem as well, I just re-installed after setting up Vista.

Here is the preview when you hover over the item in the taskbar.
www.splice-it.org/gg/preview.jpg

I can however maximize it, by right clicking on the item in the taskbar and choosing maximize, however 2 problems. 1 it looks really bad, and 2 I have no mouse cursor inside the window making it nearly impossible to use effectivly.
www.splice-it.org/gg/maximized.jpg

I'm using Torque Game Builder X (v1.1.3) so the log says, I've uploaded the log file here.
www.splice-it.org/gg/console.txt

I was unable to find a preference file that I could edit (all the ones I found where compiled dso's)

I don't have an integrated video card, I use an NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX.

I do have a widescreen monitor, and I know many laptops have a widescreen display .. so maybe it's a problem there for some reason?

I honestly have no idea .. but I am willing to provide any other info needed.

-jeremy
*edit changed the log file to .txt extension so my webserver wouldn't block it*

#7 Since support came back with no help what so ever.
I spent a few hours figuring out what I could.
SPY++ showed that the window was being moved to offscreen, actually below the taskbar for some reason.

I was going to write a small C++ app to move the window to see if that helped, but first I tried some of the compatability options.

Right Click on the shortcut -> Select Properties -> Select Compatability -> check "Run in 640x480 screen resolution"

Click OK then run Torque Game Builder.

It should still not show up, close it.

Go back to the shortcut properties, disable the run in 640x480 screen resolution

Run it again, you should see it in the center of the screen .. in a small (I presume 640x480 sized) window .. which you can now change the window settings etc..

I'm convinced it's a bug in the initial positioning of the window for Widescreen resolutions, I don't have the code so I have no idea.

I hope this helps you Mike, and anyone else who may have this problem in the future.

-jeremy

#8 Thanks for posting this solution, I just got a new computer running vista (with widescreen monitors) and had the same exact problem. Your solution worked wonderfully, thank you.

#9 Just a thought, if you right click on the start bar on the TGB place holder and then click on move and use the arrow up key on the keyboard you should beable to move it up!.. this works on XP not sure about Vista im not running it yet and when i had RC1 i never needed to try that...

#10 Hi Casey,
I tried that, but it moved the "move cursor" over what seemed to be the titlebar, it wouldn't grab ahold and I couldn't move it .. that was what gave me the idea that the positioning was off, which is why I checked in spy++

-jeremy