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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: crockett on December 06, 2007, 10:04:53 PM

Title: Is there a way to do this?
Post by: crockett on December 06, 2007, 10:04:53 PM

I have dual monitors and I know the game only supports one in game. However I was wondering if there was a way I could run the game in a window and be able to still do things on my other monitor with out having to alt tab to desktop.

I've tried right clicking my AH exe and setting it to "minimized" rather than normal window, but it always opens full screen regardless of how I set it.

With the film viewer I can load it on monitor then move my mouse off screen to the other monitor and do other stuff. I'd love to be able to do the same with the game. Anyone have any ideas on how I could do this?

This way I could do a little work as I climb out from a base or travel from one base to the other.

Title: Is there a way to do this?
Post by: hubsonfire on December 06, 2007, 10:10:51 PM

I tried to do this for ascenario, so I could have maps, orders, and such up on the second display. To do anything with the second monitor, I had to minimize AH on the first, regardless of my Nvidia control panel settings (clone, stretch, yadda yadda). If there is a way, I couldn't figure it out.

Title: Is there a way to do this?
Post by: crockett on December 06, 2007, 10:18:19 PM

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Originally posted by hubsonfire
I tried to do this for ascenario, so I could have maps, orders, and such up on the second display. To do anything with the second monitor, I had to minimize AH on the first, regardless of my Nvidia control panel settings (clone, stretch, yadda yadda). If there is a way, I couldn't figure it out.

Yea I was just thinking there might be a devlopers setting or something like that. A lot of times you can do this kinda thing by a little code in the .exe target line.

So I figured I'd ask to see if anyone knew. It would be very nice and convenient to be able to do this.

Title: Is there a way to do this?
Post by: Fulmar on December 06, 2007, 10:59:49 PM

Is there a way to force Aces High to run in a window mode instead of full screen?

Title: Is there a way to do this?
Post by: crockett on December 06, 2007, 11:28:34 PM

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Originally posted by Fulmar
Is there a way to force Aces High to run in a window mode instead of full screen?

Well in most games or apps you should be able to right click the .exe that launches the program. Then  go into properties and select if you want it full screen or in a window. For whatever reason AH over rides this setting and opens full screen no matter what.

Title: Is there a way to do this?
Post by: WMLute on December 07, 2007, 10:01:42 AM

No, there is no way to run AcesHigh in a window.