richard.malone

I had to reinstall windows 8.1 and forgot how to setup this, so referred to my above message which I have noticed is slightly incorrect. But I have improved it anyway so here goes (not for the feint of heart). Go to http://bitpatch.com/ddwrapper.html and download DDwrapper, extract into the TS directory with Game.exe in it. Open aqrit.cfg in wordpad, set NoVideoMemory = 1 only. Then right click on game.exe and set the compatibility tab to "reduce color mode 16-bit" and "Disable high dpi" Now I have a largish monitor (1920x1080) and was sick of squinting so I wanted to run it at a lower res, say 1280x720, but I wanted to do it from a batch file. I found out about a program to do this while try to get Z to run. This is QRes, get it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/qres/ and extract to the same directory. (The next few programs are optional, but will enhance the experience.) Next I was annoyed by the flickering caused by the taskbar, so I downloaded TaskBarHider from http://www.itsamples.com/taskbar-hider.html and again extracted it to the same directory. And I wanted to minimise all running programs so I used NirCmd from http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.zip and extract in the same place. These last two will need to be run once just to get rid of the message (you can close them immediately). Ok, so you now have all the required programs. Create a batch file called game.bat in the same directory as all the other program .exes and type the following: #Set the gaming resolution qres /x:1280 /y:720 #The next four commands minimise all the open programs nircmd sendkey lwin down #The next four commands minimise all the open programs nircmd sendkey d down nircmd sendkey lwin up nircmd sendkey d up #hide the taskbar start TaskBarHider.exe #Stops things going too quickly choice /t 1 /d y start TaskBarHider.exe --hide #run the game Game.exe -win #Now clean up and return to desktop resolution TaskBarHider.exe --show --exit nircmd closeprocess TaskBarHider.exe qres /x:1920 /y:1080 The desktop resolution can be changed to whatever you run. Finally, I have noticed people struggling to get custom resolutions out of TS. If that includes you, now edit SUN.ini and replace the [Video] section with this: [Video] AllowHiResModes=yes VideoBackBuffer=No ScreenWidth=1272 ScreenHeight=680 StretchMovies=no That's it. When you double click the .bat file, TS should load at a suitable resolution and without glitches. Long process, but worth it for such a great game. Best of luck. Richard

How to get Tiberium Sun working on Windows 8/8.1 (at least for me) Go to http://bitpatch.com/ddwrapper.html and download DDwrapper, extract into the TS directory with Game.exe in it. Open aqrit.cfg in wordpad, set NoVideoMemory = 1. Then create a shortcut to game.exe and set launch options to "game.exe -ui". Next go to the compatibility tab and select reduce color mode 16-bit and "Disable high dpi". Next go to sun.ini and change ScreenHeight to be 80 pixels less than your screen height. For example, I have a 1080px high screen so I set ScreenHeight=1000. Now run the game. It should be in pseudo fullscreen, you should see the menus and there shouldn't be any lag in game. There will be some small artifacts when you scroll around, but nothing major. Also the taskbar flashes when you scroll down, but again I can live with that. Twisted Insurrection: The launcher doesn't like ddraw.dll so just rename Game.dat to game.exe and follow the above instruction. Hope this works, Richard