Can you use Full Screen mode and Safe Mode at the same time?

Discussion in 'Arcanum Hints & Tips' started by chuft, Oct 29, 2004.

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  1. chuft

    chuft New Member

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    Does anyone know if it is possible to use the full screen mode if you are running the game in safe mode?

    I imagine you would modify the "Arcanum Safe Mode" shortcut to include the full screen switch, e.g. "-fullscreen"

    Never seen this topic come up for some reason. Searching turns up nothing on it.
     
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    toller New Member

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    Safe mod is 640 X 480 and the driver will present a poor dispaly. Use normal mode and 1024 X 768 or higher and then fullscreen will look great. If Windows has a bug that won't allow normal operation then that issue needs to be fixed. Run windows update, it will tell you about some problems. Get a good antivius and internet secureity like nortons internet security. Increase your video ram and main menory to allow game to use best resoulution. Main memory to 2 Billiion Bytes or more will permit the large online game to complete without the out of memeory exception.
     
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    chuft New Member

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    I'm not talking Windows safe mode, I am talking about Arcanum safe mode, which simply uses software rendering instead of using available 3D hardware.
     
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    Sinbad New Member

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    I don't know for sure, but I think that the Arcanum full screen mode and safe mode are incompatible with each other. In fact, I suspect that full screen mode is a totally separate operating mode that replaces safe mode or normal mode when it is invoked. That may be why it causes problems for some people on some computers.
     
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