Fix for resolution problems.

**drone** · 10-19-2012, 03:36

Hopefully Sepheus still lurks and will chime in.

For grins, could you try the old workaround for the resolution problems specified here? I believe Sepheus set the max memory to 2048 Mb in his ddraw wrapper. So without the ddraw.dll, try both the larger setting (2560 Mb) and smaller (2048 Mb) with Redux to see if both work. Maybe Redux needs more than 2Gb?

Welcome to the Org, Nagnar!

**ferdi** · 10-20-2012, 10:57

oo my god. forum is alive.
i look almost every day to forum but it used to die...
no new thread no new message.
ı play MT XL 2 or 3 times in a weak. ı ca't give up it.
one day my thesis other day MT XL.
so hi to every one.

**drone** · 10-20-2012, 13:38

Originally Posted by ferdi

so hi to every one.

I check every day, but most of the Main Hall denizens/lurkers are old timers so there's not much new to discuss. New discussion is always welcome, and will usually drag a couple of us out of the woodwork.
The game is 10 years old now, should have posted a Happy Birthday shout in August, my bad.

**Nagnar** · 10-22-2012, 02:05

Thanks for the welcome drone :)
2560 doesn't work with with Redux or vanilla for me but 2048 does, I suppose It's workable despite being a huge pain what with the restarting.
I did actually know about that other fix but didn't want to use it because of the annoyance but oh well, it works I guess...

-Nagnar

**Gilrandir** · 10-22-2012, 13:56

Originally Posted by ferdi

oo my god. forum is alive.
i look almost every day to forum but it used to die...

Ditto. I had been logged out, forgot my password, got a new one and - silence out there. I thought the logging out had somehow changed my settings so new posts won't filter in. Drone, you might post an empty message every now and then to let everybody know there are some survivors on the island.

**drone** · 10-22-2012, 15:24

Originally Posted by Gilrandir

Drone, you might post an empty message every now and then to let everybody know there are some survivors on the island.

Piiiinnngggg!

Seems odd that Redux works with the old fix at 2048 MB, but not with the ddraw.dll which does the reports the same amount of memory. Maybe there is a disconnect between the code that checks memory strictly for the resolution choices, and how the actual memory gets allocated with all the necessary textures, which Redux will definitely tax more heavily.

**ferdi** · 10-22-2012, 17:59

today is my off day
hmm now I'm gonna play another game...
which faction I'll choose

long live my king...
lets start

**caravel** · 10-23-2012, 09:23

We're still here, just waiting for someone to ask a question or post some screenshots of their campaign...

**Sepheus** · 10-23-2012, 11:16

Hello Nagnar, the fix does not depend on any vanilla files but I am not surprised it does not work with an extensive mod. Mods may change the memory requirements in such a way that the hard-coded limit may no longer be compatible. I may consider creating a configuration file where one can manually set the amount of memory that ddraw.dll should report to the engine.

**Gilrandir** · 10-23-2012, 16:13

Originally Posted by caravel

We're still here, just waiting for someone to ask a question

Ok, but remember, you were waiting for it. This seems to be a wrong thread for it and the problem was broached in my very first post at this forum, but caravel is so starved for questions...
Well, it is about attacking from different provinces. It has been elucidated by Asai that if two armies attack from different provinces the same province of the enemy thus combining into a single army, it (the army) will be headed by the general with more stars. But what if the generals have equal number of stars? What determines the appointment of the joint army's leader - piety, dread, hidden v&vs or random choice of the AI?