FooAtari

Thanks for the info. Will know better next time

When you say not nice, do you mean the menu being a bit screwed with zooming issues? Previously the menu during game-play would be half off the screen, but I was happy to put up with that. Here is what I have been trying to achieve. I have a desktop, laptop and netbook and I play CnC on all of them. Particularly as I am spending a lot of time in hospital at the moment so swap my saves between the desktop and netbook. I know about the incompatibilities between game saves for low and high resolution. I run it on a higher resolution on the PC, but the netbook screen res is 1024x600. I can run the game on 1024 x 768 but everything is too small and uncomfortable to use, it's just too high a res for the netbook screen. And the aspect ratio is all screwed as well, stretching the image. So I had the genius idea (or so I thought) of setting the game res on the netbook to 1024x768 and then using cnc-ddraw to run the game at 640x400 with the window setting set to false. As I said, I'm sure this was working fine last time I played the game on the netbook (but maybe my memory is failing me). The menus were a bit messed up but importantly I could use the save game files from the PC on the netbook and run the game at a usable resolution. But if I'm wasting my time here I suppose I'll just download end of mission game saves to continue with the game if I swap which PC I'm playing it on. I'll just need to ensure I complete a mission on the computer I started it on! Tried what you said and didn't really make any difference. Didn't get the game windowed in original resolution. Not sure result I should expect? And no I'm not running the game in Linux, Windows. I tend to keep my gaming and "everything else" separated between Win and Linux

Hmmm. So you really should be using a window resolution bigger than that set in ccsetup. Which in this case I'm not. Why is it not recommended? Just because it causes the problems I'm getting? or are there other reasons?

Thanks for the reply. Nope, I run it from a shortcut. Just to make sure, it is possible to run the game in a 640 x 400 window while having the resolution set to 1024x768 in ccsetup?

Hi, looking for some help. I have been trying to use cnc-draw to run CnC95 in an unscaled window. I have copied the ddraw.dll into the cnc folder and have the latest 1.06 patch. As detailed on the sitehttp://hifi.iki.fi/cnc-ddraw/#configuration, I have set the resolution to 1024x768 via ccsetup, set the correct hardware options and disabled all compatibility options. But I the game will not run in windowed mode (yes it's enabled in ddraw.ini), it just runs in 1024 res at full screen. I've changed various options and settings to no avail. Thing is, I'm sure all was OK last time I played several weeks ago. But can't think what might have changed since then to effect this... Thanks