about windowed mode in 2.01 release

**Kleitos** · 09-13-2014, 18:28

so happy with this new release.
just some question about the windowed mode. i never used that except in EB 1 in some step when moving characters. ..so for some it may seem to be a stupid question.

the game starts now in windowed mode by default.
starting it, i got a smaller picture than my screen - so i tried to adapt the resolution within the game with the outcome that altough a nice full screen the text and HUD elements were blurred. the graphics itself, the campaign map and the units and environment in battle were sharp.
then i adapted the screen-resolution to the same one as in the game. (..no problem as i can change the screen-resolution anyway when not playing.)
or is there another way of getting a full screen when playing the game in this mode?.

anyway it works perfectly now!

with the additional possibility of changing to other applications in case of need! it seems that windowed mode only has advantages - or is there some disadvantage i am not aware of now? ...something like performance or the like?

**Nightshift** · 09-14-2014, 13:46

It's recommended to play in windowed mode for stability reasons. I played a lot last week on an older pc with winxp in fullscreen and had no issues though. Now have to play on laptop with win8 were it used to crash after some turns for every 4th or so turn. Will try now with 2.01. If that doesn't work I'll have to try a reinstall.

But the main reason seems to be stabilty. (It says so in FAQ or troubleshooting).

**Kleitos** · 09-14-2014, 14:51

well, ok then - i also, only see advantages in the windowed mode.

before, with the first release i also played in "normal" fullscreen - and i had no troubles at all. but ok, i only played about 48 seasons or so..

**Nightshift** · 09-15-2014, 10:24

Have to agree, in version 2.0 I tried manually to get it into windowed mode wich worked but allways left that window-frame for me wich bothered me alot. Now with the borderless window there is nothing to coplain.

(I'm trying now compatibility-mode: winxp maybe that helps for me)

**Kleitos** · 09-15-2014, 12:49

@Nightshift: if you read here again - maybe you could drop some knowledge what you mean with compatibility-mode. (...i know im a real dummy

when i comes to the intestines of software or the like.)

because i experience the campaign map now v e r y slow with the graphic enhancement mod installed (dont wanna go to much into details here as i wrote anyway in the enhancement mod thread about it)- im searchin for the reason why - in battle map everything is perfect though.

..and maybe another mode, besides windowed, might change there somethin - i only can try.
so im really interested what "compatibility-mode" is and how to set it.
(just curious about: to get a full-screen now with windowed mode - i adapted the screen-resolution to the one in game. ..is it intended like that or is there also another way to achieve this, which im not aware of)

much obliged,
Kleitos

**Fluvius Camillus** · 09-15-2014, 17:39

I don't like windowed mode. An excellent game like EB should be full immersion by default, especially in today's world with ever-decreasing attention spans (TL;DR, TL;DW, etc...).

Of course everybody can enjoy it as they please, this is just my view on the matter. Haven't encountered any stability issues yet so that might also explain my preference.

~Fluvius

**Nightshift** · 09-15-2014, 19:07

@Kleitos
If you right click on kingdom.exe you can go to compability-mode and set it to winXP. Or if you right-cklick your game in task manager while running it.
But for me campaign is really slow now too-unlike on the much older XP-pc I played before. But for some reason it seems to speed up after 10 turns or so. Maybe it has to do with scripts or so.

At least I had no crashes so far - keeping fingers crossed -.

Its 2.1 now so I really dont know if it's my attempts or if something has been revisited in codes and scripts and such (or both).