Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations

Fleet Operations => Technical Stuff => Topic started by: Captain_Kirk76 on June 18, 2006, 07:07:18 PM



Title: Menus Squashed Into One Half Of Screen
Post by: Captain_Kirk76 on June 18, 2006, 07:07:18 PM
When the Menu launches or you push the escape button for the in game menu, the game puts all its menus on just half of the screen, yet the movie and actual gameplay is done fullscreen. I dont understand this at all.


P.s I have managed to play the Preview, its absolutley fab.


Title: Menus Squashed Into One Half Of Screen
Post by: DOCa Cola on June 18, 2006, 07:17:06 PM
could you provide a screenshot please?


Title: Menus Squashed Into One Half Of Screen
Post by: Captain_Kirk76 on June 18, 2006, 09:16:56 PM
Hmm, this is strange When i press the print screen button, it prints it ot normally, i will use my Webcam to take a picture of it.


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Edit
Impossible to take picture - Fleet Ops interupts Webcam function.


Title: Menus Squashed Into One Half Of Screen
Post by: Captain_Kirk76 on June 18, 2006, 09:24:06 PM
hmm, how do i take an ingame screenshot, see if that works?


Title: Menus Squashed Into One Half Of Screen
Post by: DOCa Cola on June 18, 2006, 09:50:56 PM
i fear that what you describe is more an armada 2 issue we cannot influence..
alt+p is the ingame screenshot shortcut. make sure you have an "screenshot" folder in your fleet operations directory created

DOCa Cola


Title: Menus Squashed Into One Half Of Screen
Post by: Captain_Kirk76 on June 18, 2006, 10:18:21 PM
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Title: Menus Squashed Into One Half Of Screen
Post by: Captain_Kirk76 on June 18, 2006, 10:23:04 PM
Fleet ops wont create a screenshot, for some reason. Armada 2 is now also having this problem, I bought a new Graphics card yesterday, which might be casuing, if this is the case, i am dissapointed..


Title: Menus Squashed Into One Half Of Screen
Post by: Jan on June 18, 2006, 10:28:19 PM
So if it happens do you see parts of your Desktop?


Title: Menus Squashed Into One Half Of Screen
Post by: Captain_Kirk76 on June 18, 2006, 10:44:17 PM
No, it is squashed on one half, and the other is totally black


Title: Menus Squashed Into One Half Of Screen
Post by: Lt.Cdr.White on June 19, 2006, 12:39:49 AM
I found the problem for you.

I just set FSAA to 2x and WHAM, I have the same problem.

Set your FSAA to off, 2xQ or 4x and try again.


Title: Menus Squashed Into One Half Of Screen
Post by: Captain_Kirk76 on June 19, 2006, 01:53:57 AM
What exactly is FSAA and where do i change it, all i know is i jsut bought a Nvidia Geforce 6600LE, so its not fully set up correctly for some programs.

Please help me with this, i wish to maximise my gaming experience from the best Armada 2 Mod ever.


Title: Menus Squashed Into One Half Of Screen
Post by: DOCa Cola on June 19, 2006, 08:25:05 AM
(http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5403/untitled19wn.png)
If thats the case make sure you kept those settings in the Nvidia Control Panel "Application-controlled".


Title: Menus Squashed Into One Half Of Screen
Post by: Krael on June 19, 2006, 09:51:30 AM
I've never seen that controlpanel do you have to download it?
(I've got nvidia geforce 6800)


Title: Menus Squashed Into One Half Of Screen
Post by: Lt.Cdr.White on June 19, 2006, 10:34:31 AM
It's part of the standard nVidia drivers.

For example, just right-click your desktop and
 choose nVidia settings and then your monitor.

However, there are many ways to access it.
And don't forget to activate the tray icon under "Tools".
Thus you can change the most important settings from a
flyout menu without having to launch the whole control panel.


FSAA = Full Screen Anti-Aliasing, also simply called AA or Anti-Aliasing or "edge smoothing"


Title: Menus Squashed Into One Half Of Screen
Post by: Krael on June 19, 2006, 11:01:10 AM
Ok, thanks.


Title: Menus Squashed Into One Half Of Screen
Post by: Lt.Cdr.White on June 19, 2006, 11:54:35 AM
Just a small update:

The AA modes causing this strange behaviour are:

2x
2xQ

Modes that do not cause the problem:

Application controlled
off
4x

I haven't tested 8xS but I presume it will work as well.



The nVidia control panel can be reached via:


Desktop right-click => nVidia Display => monitor type

Desktop right-click => Properties => Settings => Advanced => GeForce xyz

nVidia tray icon right click => nVidia Display => monitor type


The tray icon can be activated in the nVidia control panel under "Tools".

Via the tray icon, you can change resolution, refresh rate, color depth, quality mode, anti-alias, anisotropic filtering and monitor orientation.


Title: Menus Squashed Into One Half Of Screen
Post by: Captain_Kirk76 on June 19, 2006, 03:58:41 PM
Okay, i had it on 2* i presume the higher it is the more quality it is too?


Title: Menus Squashed Into One Half Of Screen
Post by: Lt.Cdr.White on June 20, 2006, 12:49:01 PM
higher = better quality, lower performance ;)