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Support Requests / Re: I'm having some problems

« on: April 09, 2016, 10:15:42 AM »

Can you take a screenshot for me? Sounds like a false positive from a virus scanner. They should have an option to analyse the file to determine it actions. It should then come back clean.

I don't know how to paste a screenshot into this forum, it was a message that flashed up as a windows security warning when I tried to drag the W2WINMODE folder to my desktop.

By the way I have found a way round the small windowed screen problem that might be useful for other people who want to play it windowed. This is how I do it in windows 8.1 anyway, and I suspect you can do it the same if not a similar way on other windows versions.

right click the desktop and go to "personalise" and under the display settings you can go to "Calibrate Colour" to change the size of items displayed in windows, the default setting is 100% and it's marked default so it's easy enough to remember how to change the setting back once you've finished playing. Anyway you want to click the box that says "let me choose one scaling level for all my displays", you will then get the option "custom sizing options". When you select that you get a scale bar and a drop down menu allowing you to choose a more specific size, here you can experiment by adjusting the size and applying it until you find that war2 displays as a good size in the windowed mode. When you have discovered the size you need then you don't have to mess about experimenting every time, when you click "apply" you might get a prompt to sign out of windows and then sign back in again. WHAT EVER YOU DO don't go too big because you may not be able to get back again! So start at the smaller numbers. I have found that the ideal size for my laptop screen is 150% I guess it may vary depending on what size screen you have, I'm afraid I don't know what size screen mine is! But it seems like a common/standard size.

Once you've done this you can move the war2 windowed box to the centre of the screen, now the taskbar might be covering it at the bottom but that's not an issue because you can just right click on an empty part of the taskbar and select "properties" and under the "taskbar" tab there is a drop down box for "taskbar location on screen" and you just move it to the right of the screen or to the left if your desktop items are positioned on the right, then nothing is covering the war2 windowed box and you're ready to go:). Once you've finished playing the game it's easy just to change these settings back to normal again.

I just thought I should share that with you because playing in window mode is useful for numerous reasons. Maybe this should be a bulletin.

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Support Requests / Re: I'm having some problems

« on: April 08, 2016, 08:44:00 AM »

I followed that link and opened that war2windowed folder or what ever it's called, the one with the ddraw.dll files in but I couldn't find a ddraw.dll file already in the War2Combat folder. I dragged both the ddraw files from the war2windowed folder into my War2Combat folder anyway and it seems to have worked, the game is windowed but at some point I got a warning saying that one or more of these files can potentially harm your computer and the windowed screen is very small and I can't select the edges of it to enlarge or shrink it, is there a way of changing the size of it?

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Support Requests / Re: I'm having some problems

« on: April 07, 2016, 02:19:13 PM »

Is it possible to play War2Combat windowed?

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Support Requests / Re: I'm having some problems

« on: April 05, 2016, 07:21:16 AM »

Well we seem to have solved the problem of the screen not displaying properly on my brothers laptop, it wasn't the same problem as the example that mousEtopher gave but clicking "disable display scaling on high DPI settings" in War2Combat Properties  seemed to do the trick. As regards forwarding his router, he's concerned about doing that at the moment incase it messes anything else up with his internet. Is it a relatively safe process?

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Support Requests / Re: I'm having some problems

« on: April 01, 2016, 07:40:58 AM »

Thank you everybody for your suggestions, I can now see how you can have computer bots online, and I'll let you know how I get on with trying to sort the port problem out. Does anyone else have any other ideas about why the picture would be zoomed in at the top left on my brothers laptop?

Thanks.

Johno.

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Support Requests / [solved]I'm having some problems

« on: March 31, 2016, 06:51:35 AM »

Hi, I'm not sure if I'm leaving this message in the right place but I've only just signed up to this forum so forgive me!

last night I tried to play a game of Warcraft 2 with my brother but when we installed War2Combat on his laptop we found that when he tried to play the screen seemed to be zoomed in at the top left to some extent and he couldn't move his mouse beyond that point, and anything that he couldn't see on the screen he couldn't select with the mouse. Also is it possible to have computer bots in these online games?

We tried the "classic" game play to attempted a network game just through his internet hub before hand but we couldn't get that to work either. But when we tried to play through the server we both tried to create a game but found that once we had done this we got a message saying something like "your game has been closed, no one can join your game. There are some other problems as well but I don't want to raise too many at once.

Any advice that could be offered would be much appreciated.

Many thanks.

Johno.