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Just added Tiger Woods 2006 with my AVGA...question if anyone has it.
electricd:
So I installed TW2006, and it is great. The problem is that the menu automatically loads at 1024X768 even if you tell the gameplay to run at 800X600. This causes my AVGA and D9200 to go "out of range." If I get on via VNC, and start a game up, the game reverts to 800X600 and my monitor wakes right up and looks great. No idea why they would do this, but does anyone know how to fix it? I have tried running in forced 640X480 mode, but it doesn't make any difference. I have also opened a ticket with EA...but thus far they are idiots and are trying to get me to do stuff that will make no difference!
chemame:
oh don't you hate it when designers do dumb things like that? I can hear them now "ok, some people might keep their desktops at 800x600, and maybe need 800x600 for video performance... but surely everyone can DO higher resolutions for the menu. They won't even know the difference."
I'm just thinking out loud here, but while EA tech support flips through index cards reading canned responses that won't help you in any way... I'm wondering if something like nircmd ( http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html ) could be of any use. I've never tried something like this, but I wonder what would happen if you had it change screen res a few seconds after the game loads? Again, just thinking out loud.. might not be feasible or possible... but I'm thinking some sort of batch file with a delay between firing the game and changing the resolution.
If I come up with any other ideas, I'll post. Good luck!
Chemame
electricd:
Well thats a great idea. I just tried it, and maybe im not a batch file writer :), but it seems that the batch file doesn't get control back to run the res changer until I exit the tiger woods program. Here is what I have:
TW2006.exe
PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 5000 >NUL
nircmd.exe setdisplay 800 600 24
So when i run that file...it starts TW2006...then waits there until I exit the TW2006 program to run the other 2 commands. Not sure how to tell it to proceed without waiting for that program to exit?
ED7
fjser:
try putting start in front of tw2006.exe, so
start tw2006.exe
electricd:
Yea no dice...the menu just keeps refreshing to 1024X768. WTF was EA thinking?! "Umm yea..it works great at 800 X 600...as long as you don't want to see the menu!" Anyone want to buy my brand new unregistered copy of TW2006??
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