Game only launches in Windowed mode

[kurso]

I've downloaded the 7 day trial and no matter what setting I change I can't get the game to run in full screen mode. Anyone have a suggestion?

[kurso]

I've downloaded the 7 day trial and no matter what setting I change I can't get the game to run in full screen mode. Anyone have a suggestion?

Once I got into the game it was full screen but all of the prior screens were windowed beind the Windows Bars. Odd

[sprite]

Once I got into the game it was full screen but all of the prior screens were windowed beind the Windows Bars. Odd

The login/char select screens are always windowed.

[chilli42]

The login/char select screens are always windowed.

I have the same problem in login screens and in game. Any help would be appreciated.

Edit: I'm an idiot. Just needed newer drivers. I was too quick to post, sorry.

[amitst]

its better (for your life) to use windowed mode, since you can check email and answer IMs without a pause,

only terrorists use full screen

[marct]

its better (for your life) to use windowed mode, since you can check email and answer IMs without a pause,

only terrorists use full screen

*raises hand* Terrorist in training here then.

Full screen is wicked!!! Full Immersion at it's best. I guess 1920x1200 resolution doesn't hurt either

I can still Alt-tab in windows, but only if you have a window open. Otherwise you need to go the Task manager route by Ctrl-Alt-Del. As all other keys are basically ignored for some reason.

Noin.

[kostika]

I can still Alt-tab in windows, but only if you have a window open. Otherwise you need to go the Task manager route by Ctrl-Alt-Del. As all other keys are basically ignored for some reason.

Noin.

You should be able to hit your windows key and that'll bring up the task bar (and star menu) and you should be able to get what you need from there on out

[bstriege]

So is the login / character select screens really supposed to run in windowed mode?

I saw other posts where they said you had to have a desktop resolution of 1024/768/32+ or it would run in windowed mode, but mine is 1280x1024x32 and it still runs in windowed.

For me it really makes it hard to create a character in windowed mode because it lags the mouse out so bad and parts of the character are covered with the selectors because it's shunk down so much.

I searched the forums and I"m using the NVIDIA drivers that were recommended by a mod. 71.85 or .84 I think .. can't remember off hand and I'm not able to check my gaming PC right now.

My system specs are:

AMD 2400 XP
1 gig RAM DDR
Windows XP
NForce 2 chip on MB
GeForce FX 5200 128

I was also locking up at the loading screen right before your character appears in the world, but installing older drivers fixed that.

[Zerlin]

So is the login / character select screens really supposed to run in windowed mode?

I saw other posts where they said you had to have a desktop resolution of 1024/768/32+ or it would run in windowed mode, but mine is 1280x1024x32 and it still runs in windowed.

For me it really makes it hard to create a character in windowed mode because it lags the mouse out so bad and parts of the character are covered with the selectors because it's shunk down so much.

I searched the forums and I"m using the NVIDIA drivers that were recommended by a mod. 71.85 or .84 I think .. can't remember off hand and I'm not able to check my gaming PC right now.

My system specs are:

AMD 2400 XP
1 gig RAM DDR
Windows XP
NForce 2 chip on MB
GeForce FX 5200 128

I was also locking up at the loading screen right before your character appears in the world, but installing older drivers fixed that.

71.89 drivers are best for the lower end/older nVidia based cards.
Make sure to remove currently installed drivers before rebooting and running the drive installer again. You may also want to tweak the windows display adapter settings to lower things like Anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering to be application selected. When you get in game try changing to hardware cursor and that will speed thing up.

And yes the game launches in windowed mode but you can change it to FS when you get in game if needed - or select the FS screen size from the launcher window.