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??

[chemame]

Bummer, I was hoping that would work for you.

On the bright side, I picked up a handy "pause" technique for batch files. Dunno why I never thought of that. 
:-)

Chemame

[electricd]

Heh yea...i use that alot to pause batches.  I am going to figure this thing out eventually.  When I do I will post back, as this game is AMAZING on an arcade with a trackball!

[squirrellydw]

I thought the WG9200 supported 1024x768

[squirrellydw]

I asked this on another forum, keep your eye on it. I will try to keep you updated
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15706892

[squirrellydw]

I am just pasting the info from the other site so don't ask me anything  because I don't know   

Make two more bat files with the other commands in them and use call to run them . may work?

or try this

Maybe the problem is with the game switching to a graphics mode, and the command prompt needs to wait in order to produce its text-mode output. Try:

@echo off
start TW2006.exe

...etc...

I searched google but couldn't find a way to lock down the EA menu resolution. So I'm just guessing at a way around it.

PS, using PING on 127.0.0.2 might have the same delay effect as the IP you're using except it won't actually transmit packets onto the internet.

[squirrellydw]

I take it that it doesn't work if you change the resolution first and then launch the program. There isn't a way to do this with a batch file, as far as I know, a batch file is sequential and will not start the next line until the previous line has finished.

It is possible that there is a switch for the EXE that will change the resolution?

[electricd]

So far no dice...haven't been able to make it happen at all.

[Mario]

try putting start in front of tw2006.exe, so

start tw2006.exe

Read this on a web site:

The START command:
...
When executing an application that is a 32-bit GUI application, CMD.EXE does not wait for the application to terminate before returning to the command prompt. This new behavior does NOT occur if executing within a command script.

So it seems the START command won't do what you want if it's in a batch script.

Mario

[chemame]

Electricd --

In the past few days I went from "what in the world is this autohotkey thing" to "omg ahk r0x0rs"
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=45340.0

After I slept, I thought about you and your tiger woods thing. Why couldn't you use AHK to navigate the menus?
Theoretically, you could have as many hotkeys in your script as you have need for different menu navigations. ... ?

Thinking out loud here. Might not be what you're after.

Chemame

[squirrellydw]

Have you asked Andy at Utimarc about this at all.  It should work from what I heard.

[electricd]

Chemame - Thats a GREAT idea!!  I am going to do that now!  Squirrelly- I haven't bugged Andy about it because I don't think its actually his problem.