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AuthorTopic: Windowed Mode
Telmaski
Apprentice
Member # 17868
 written Friday, May 9 2008 05:29 Profile #0
I'm very interested in purchasing the GeneForge series for my downtime at home and work. I tried the demo a few years ago on a PC Gamer CD and just thought of it recently when looking for something to play when work is slow or I'm waiting around on FFXI for stuff to happen.

I have a small problem though. I need to be able to play the game in a window and have it not mess with my screen colors.

If the game tries to fullscreen on me:
1.) It's not very discreet at work, and I don't really want to draw attention to it.
2.) Any other fullscreen application will crash my other game of choice.

So, I just need to know if this game can be played in windowed mode at all, either through it naturally being able to do that, or there's a work-around I missed during my research.

Thank you.
Posts: 2 | Registered: Friday, May 9 2008 07:00
Redstart
Shock Trooper
Member # 6666
 written Friday, May 9 2008 06:03 Profile #1
I'm afraid no game using the Geneforge engine can be run in a window. And as far as I've heard, there's no decent workaround.
Posts: 353 | Registered: Monday, January 9 2006 08:00
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Friday, May 9 2008 06:36 Profile Homepage #2
Geneforge 5 will however have a windowed mode as well as variable display resolutions, according to the latest update.

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Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Friday, May 9 2008 12:06 Profile #3
The only work around is to run the games in an emulator that has windows mode.
Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00
Telmaski
Apprentice
Member # 17868
 written Monday, May 12 2008 04:44 Profile #4
quote:
Originally written by Randomizer:

The only work around is to run the games in an emulator that has windows mode.
So, that would make it full screened in a windowed emulator, correct? Hmmm.
Posts: 2 | Registered: Friday, May 9 2008 07:00