WV IV DVD

[Jonathan Mark]

Checked the faq and didn't find anything directly related to this.
I've got the DVD version of Wing Commander IV, and for some reason, even
though I check the SVGA box for the spaceflight mode, the game only runs
in VGA. I try and try again, but no dice. I've got an STB nVidia TNT
card with DirectX 6.1.. can anyone help me out?

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[John Ehrig]

Jonathan Mark <jma...@usa.net> wrote in message
news:36F2D3BA...@usa.net...

When I bought my STB it came with a card to get some software to be able to
run DVD on the card. did you send it in? It has something to do with
decoder problems or something. aha- found it. It's for MPEG-2/DVD decoding
software. Hope this helps.

[Karl "CFF" Frank]

Jonathan Mark wrote:
>
> Checked the faq and didn't find anything directly related to this.
> I've got the DVD version of Wing Commander IV, and for some reason, even
> though I check the SVGA box for the spaceflight mode, the game only runs
> in VGA. I try and try again, but no dice. I've got an STB nVidia TNT
> card with DirectX 6.1.. can anyone help me out?

Are you sure? SVGA for WC4 means 640x480x256 - the lowest spec ever
called svga. Did you try VGA? Does it look different?
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[Jonathan Mark]

Karl \"CFF\" Frank wrote:

> Are you sure? SVGA for WC4 means 640x480x256 - the lowest spec ever
> called svga. Did you try VGA? Does it look different?
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> WINDOOF-POSITIVER ERROR:
> Sie brauchen heute nichts mehr zu arbeiten!

Well, for one thing, during the spaceflight mode, when I hit alt + o and
look at screen resolution, neither VGA nor SVGA is selected (the detail box is
set to highest). When I select SVGA, and hit save, and okay, the screen is
exactly the same, and when I go back to the options menu, neither box is
selected again. Also, I have the cd-rom version, so I do know what the SVGA
display is supposed to be like, and since the DVD gameflow screens are in a
visibly lower resolution, I'm assuming it must be VGA. Any ideas on how to
get SVGA working?

[Kris Vanhecke]

Jonathan Mark heeft geschreven in bericht <36F3D77B...@usa.net>...

> Well, for one thing, during the spaceflight mode, when I hit alt + o
and
>look at screen resolution, neither VGA nor SVGA is selected (the detail box
is
>set to highest). When I select SVGA, and hit save, and okay, the screen
is
>exactly the same, and when I go back to the options menu, neither box is
>selected again. Also, I have the cd-rom version, so I do know what the
SVGA
>display is supposed to be like, and since the DVD gameflow screens are in a
>visibly lower resolution, I'm assuming it must be VGA. Any ideas on how to
>get SVGA working?

Play around with alt-1, alt-2, alt-3 and alt-4. You may have to use
alt-shift-x if you're using an azerty keyboard.

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[Locke]

On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Karl "CFF" Frank wrote:

> Jonathan Mark wrote:
> > Checked the faq and didn't find anything directly related to this.
> > I've got the DVD version of Wing Commander IV, and for some reason, even
> > though I check the SVGA box for the spaceflight mode, the game only runs
> > in VGA. I try and try again, but no dice. I've got an STB nVidia TNT
> > card with DirectX 6.1.. can anyone help me out?

> Are you sure? SVGA for WC4 means 640x480x256 - the lowest spec ever
> called svga. Did you try VGA? Does it look different?

This is where they got SuperVGA, SuperUltraVGA, SuperUltraUltraVGA, etc.
Then they settled on a standard for SVGA (ie: VESA).

Locke

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