Running EB in a smaller window?

[Dayve]

Is it possible? I'd like to be able to run EB on the small window so that at the same time i can talk on messenger and do other things without minimizing the game which takes a while to come back on. :2thumbsup:

[ScionTheWorm]

if you think it's slow now....

but I think it will be a graphic card issue, and I've never heard about anyone running it in a window rather than full screen, so I doubt rtw supports being run like that. I can't see anything about it in the prefrences file so probably not.

[Dooz]

I actually did that by mistake. The default EB icon comes with a command line already in it, I forgot what exactly, but if you haven't deleted it it should still work. I think all you have to do now is set the resolution to 800x600 and instead of showing it fullscreen with that setting, it'll be in window mode.

[MeroFromVero]

Is it possible? I'd like to be able to run EB on the small window so that at the same time i can talk on messenger and do other things without minimizing the game which takes a while to come back on. :2thumbsup:

To eliminate the load time when you unminimize RTW, right click on your preferred shortcut and select properties. At the end of the "target" line, add "-ne" (without quotes, of course) after "-nm -show_err". It'll still run in full screen, but you should be able to alt+tab to messenger windows with much less inconvenience.

[Dooz]

To eliminate the load time when you unminimize RTW, right click on your preferred shortcut and select properties. At the end of the "target" line, add "-ne" (without quotes, of course) after "-nm -show_err". It'll still run in full screen, but you should be able to alt+tab to messenger windows with much less inconvenience.

That's what I heard elsewhere as well, but actually I couldn't minimize the screen at all with the -ne line and have no problems without the line. But that's the line necessary to make it windowed mode in 800x600.

[ScionTheWorm]

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[Dooz]

When it was in window mode? I can't really recall, I kind of tripped out 'cause I didn't know what was going on and I was really anxious to play EB :embarassed: . So I just quickly exited and tried to "fix" it.

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Erm... you edited your post before my reply was posted, so perhaps I should clarify that the question was if the graphics were worse, more or less.

[Dayve]

Thanks very much everyone. :2thumbsup: