eshaan Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Hey I have the new patch installed but yet the windowed mode dosnt work for me. In preferences its greyed out and The "-windowed-small_screen" does not work for me. If I start the game, it immediatley crashes.....can someone please help? I want to play in windowed mode but no one from SI is replying to this problem Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsoluteGenius Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Change your computer's resolution in display settings. Make sure it is at a high resolution. It should then show up in preferences. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eshaan Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 How do i do that? Make it 1024*768? It worked in FM 08 but not now... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsoluteGenius Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I couldn't open windowed mode until I changed my resolution to 1280x1024. Right click on your desktop, then click on Personalize or Properties. Then click Display settings. Put your resolution on its highest level. Hopefully it should work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eshaan Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 !024*768 is the highest option...i have gone to properties but there isnt 1280x1024 for me... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsoluteGenius Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Maybe you'll have to find a different way then. I think you need a pretty high resolution to run windowed mode on this version. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eshaan Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 But i have played all the previous versions in windowed so why is there a problem now ? Thanks for the help anyway > Much appreciated! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 7 Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 This is what you do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eshaan Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 Frankie iv done that. but as i said a black screen opens up and then closes saying FM09 has encountered an error... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 7 Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Frankie iv done that. but as i said a black screen opens up and then closes saying FM09 has encountered an error... Is the short cut on your desktop, Yeah? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eshaan Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 Yeah on the desktop Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 7 Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I don't get it then cos if your short cut looks exactly like what the above image does, Then it should work. But again it may be to do with the size of your monitor (resolution). What size is your monitor? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eshaan Posted January 11, 2009 Author Share Posted January 11, 2009 How do i check the size without actually manually measuring it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ftg87 Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 By the looks the things, FM won't open in windowed mode in the resolution that you say is your highest, as I just switched mine down to 1024x768 and, whilst the game will still load, windowed mode doesn't work at that resolution, so, AFAIK, there doesn't seem much you can do Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDXCougar8173 Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 try hiding your taskbar Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoulpain Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Window Mode only works if you have a screen res higher then 1024x768 .. same goes for FM Live. !024*768 is the highest option...i have gone to properties but there isnt 1280x1024 for me... You got correct graphic card drivers installed? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eshaan Posted January 11, 2009 Author Share Posted January 11, 2009 Well i guess it wont work for me but its a strange one because it worked perfectly in all the previous versions... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 7 Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Well i guess it wont work for me but its a strange one because it worked perfectly in all the previous versions... But this is a different version than the others. Some things may have been changed and somewhere in one of the threads on thse forums is all the things that changed in this version. Maybe one of the staff team can verify exactly what has changed from the previous version in terms of screen resolution, If anything has changed. Have you done a search through the bugs and tech sections on these forums? Or maybe you have just done somehting wrong. I would have a good look through any threads relating too windowed mode in these forums. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eshaan Posted January 11, 2009 Author Share Posted January 11, 2009 I have gone through many threads regarding this issue and commented in many of them but sadly no one from SI has yet really bothered replying... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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