stuck in windowed mode?

Luitstra

for some reason since last week whenever I open Baldur's gate EE or BGII SoA EE it goes to windowed mode and when I go to options and click fullscreen>done it just stays in windowed mode and if I go back to the graphics settings the box is unclicked like I never touched it

any idea what is causing this?

elminster

Not sure what operating system you are using. If you are using windows what happens when you use alt+enter ?

Luitstra

windows 10 and nothing happens at best the borders of windowed mode might flicker

Luitstra

Anyone? it's realy anoying the screen is to small to do anything in it...

mf2112

If you doubleclick on the title bar does it change?

moody_mage

Can you save games? Have you recently upgraded to Windows 10? Is your documents folder set to Read Only (worth checking for this)?

Luitstra

mf2112 said:

If you doubleclick on the title bar does it change?

ok that at least makes the screen bigger but it's still stuck in windowed mode and if I try the full screen option it goes back to small

decado said:

Can you save games? Have you recently upgraded to Windows 10? Is your documents folder set to Read Only (worth checking for this)?

yes I can save/load games

I updated to windows 10 quite a while ago and both BGI and II worked fine before in windows 10

yes it was set to read only wich I changed for BG EE and all subfolders(in programfiles>steam>steam apps>common>BG EE*

* = the folder in wich i turned off readonly and all subfolders

but it doesn't work

moody_mage

The reason I asked that is because Windows 10 can mess up your My Documents folder as it can confuse the permissions. So it marks the folder as read only and you have to jump through many hoops in order to actually be able to remove the read only flag.

Hence why the first question I asked is if you could save games. If you couldn't then this would point the finger towards Windows 10.

Mr2150

Have you edited the Baldur.lua file in your My Documents/Game/ folder?

In full screen mode, mine has the following two lines (amongst others) - worth checking they are there for you:

SetPrivateProfileString('Window','Maximized','0') SetPrivateProfileString('Window','Full Screen','1')

Luitstra

Mr2150 said:

Have you edited the Baldur.lua file in your My Documents/Game/ folder?

In full screen mode, mine has the following two lines (amongst others) - worth checking they are there for you:

SetPrivateProfileString('Window','Maximized','0') SetPrivateProfileString('Window','Full Screen','1')

I have but only for the being able to activate cheats will check for those lines

Luitstra

altough in different form yeah the lines and numbers are there...

Mr2150

How do you mean in different form?

mf2112

what happens if you click the maximize button?



Also, do you have a baldur.ini file still in the \Documents\BG-game folder? If so then please check the settings above for "Maximize" and "Full Screen" in there. I believe you can safely rename it to baldur.ini.bak since the game uses the baldur.lua file now.

Luitstra

Mr2150 said:

How do you mean in different form?

mmmmhhh how should I explain.... in the textfile there is no enter behind each line and there is alot of spaces in between

when I copy them here they show up as you'd normally expect

CREATE TABLE options (
section string,
name string,
value string
);
INSERT INTO options ROWS (
'Fonts', 'ko_KR', 'UNBOM',
'Fonts', 'zh_CN', 'SIMSUN',
'Fonts', 'ja_JP', 'MSGOTHIC',
'Fonts', 'ru_RU', 'PERMIAN',
'Fonts', 'uk_UA', 'PERMIAN',
'Window', 'Full Screen', '1',
'Graphics', 'version', '4.5.13416 Compatibility Profile Context 15.300.1025.1001 - build XXXX',
'Graphics', 'renderer', 'AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series',
'Graphics', 'vendor', 'ATI Technologies Inc.',
'MOVIES', 'LOGO', '1',
'MOVIES', 'INTRO15F', '1',
'Game Options', 'Footsteps', '1',
'Game Options', 'Memory Level', '

(just a random part)

anyway this was always the case (even in windows 7 before the upgrade) and it always worked correctly till I started having this problem I tought it was becasue I downloaded it trough steam...

Luitstra

mf2112 said:

what happens if you click the maximize button?



Also, do you have a baldur.ini file still in the \Documents\BG-game folder? If so then please check the settings above for "Maximize" and "Full Screen" in there. I believe you can safely rename it to baldur.ini.bak since the game uses the baldur.lua file now.

I can maximize just fine just when I click full screen it goes back to the small screen

elminster

Luitstra said:

when I copy them here they show up as you'd normally expect

CREATE TABLE options (
section string,
name string,
value string
);
INSERT INTO options ROWS (
'Fonts', 'ko_KR', 'UNBOM',
'Fonts', 'zh_CN', 'SIMSUN',
'Fonts', 'ja_JP', 'MSGOTHIC',
'Fonts', 'ru_RU', 'PERMIAN',
'Fonts', 'uk_UA', 'PERMIAN',
'Window', 'Full Screen', '1',
'Graphics', 'version', '4.5.13416 Compatibility Profile Context 15.300.1025.1001 - build XXXX',
'Graphics', 'renderer', 'AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series',
'Graphics', 'vendor', 'ATI Technologies Inc.',
'MOVIES', 'LOGO', '1',
'MOVIES', 'INTRO15F', '1',
'Game Options', 'Footsteps', '1',
'Game Options', 'Memory Level', '

My LUA file doesn't look like that at all (maybe you are looking at the ini file?). Try deleting your lua file in any case and starting the game.

mf2112

Updated your graphics card driver recently? I have heard of issues with Windows 10 replacing the OEM drivers with Microsoft drivers causing strange issues. I generally prefer the OEM drivers. Also, maybe try going into the Options, Graphics menu and choosing the Alternate Renderer?

Luitstra

ok I feel real stupid now... I just reinstalled and now the fullscreen button DOES work.,..

mf2112

Luitstra said:

ok I feel real stupid now... I just reinstalled and now the fullscreen button DOES work.,..

I literally cannot count the number of times I have seen similar things for various applications through every version of Windows since 3.1. Well, maybe I could count it in hex.

moody_mage

At least it's fixed. Happy gaming.

Luitstra

alright the problem is back havn't played in a while and it started up again with the aditional bug that dispite my mouse cursor not leaving the window the sides won't move:-/

Tried reinstalling... same problems persists

Luitstra

*bump*

Mr2150

Sorry - I'm a bit confused. Are you expecting the game screen to scroll when your mouse reaches the edge of the screen in windowed mode?

My understanding is that the screen doesn't scroll like that when in windowed mode. It only does it when in full screen mode. You can double-click to move the window, or use the arrow keys...

Luitstra

Mr2150 said:

Sorry - I'm a bit confused. Are you expecting the game screen to scroll when your mouse reaches the edge of the screen in windowed mode?

My understanding is that the screen doesn't scroll like that when in windowed mode. It only does it when in full screen mode. You can double-click to move the window, or use the arrow keys...

yeah when in windowed mode my mouse cursor can't leave the window unless I alt-tab and the ingame screen doesn't move

if what your saying is correct I need help with the orriginal problem I tried everything in this topic so far but to no avail...

any other ideas I could try

Mr2150

If you are using 2.0+ of the game, in baldur.lua which is found in your MY DOCUMENTS/*GAME* folder, there are five settings relating to the window mode/full screen mode:

SetPrivateProfileString('Window','Maximized','1')
SetPrivateProfileString('Window','w','1024')
SetPrivateProfileString('Window','x','448')
SetPrivateProfileString('Window','y','156')
SetPrivateProfileString('Window','h','768')
SetPrivateProfileString('Window','Full Screen','0')

Your numbers may be different currently but the format should be the same.



I'd suggest to:

- Close the game, open baldur.lua and change the settings as follows:

- Change the 'Full Screen' (this can be 0 or 1, this is OFF or ON respectively) to a 1 and change 'Maximised' to 0. These are the settings I have when in Full Screen mode. Then save the file. Close it. And then run the game. Any joy?

- If not - reopen baldur.lua and check if the manual changes you made have not been altered somehow. If they have then something is altering them, somehow? Maybe a mod or something else. Is this the case?

- Take a copy of your baldur.lua and save it to your desktop as a backup, then delete the file completely. This will reset all your settings. Now run the game, the game will be forced to generate a new baldur.lua file and should generate it in Full Screen mode.

Let me know how you get on...

Luitstra

searched the document for window and only found 2 full screen and maximise window

when doing a search for "SetPrivateProfileString" (directly copy/pasted from your post) and came up with nothing...

if you don't mind could you do a copy/pasta of your .ini file? maybe if I just replace everything it works?

as far as versions go im on
Baldur's gate:EE 2.3.67.3
Baldur's gate II SoA: EE 2.3.67.3

mf2112

Luitstra said:

searched the document for window and only found 2 full screen and maximise window

when doing a search for "SetPrivateProfileString" (directly copy/pasted from your post) and came up with nothing...

if you don't mind could you do a copy/pasta of your .ini file? maybe if I just replace everything it works?

as far as versions go im on
Baldur's gate:EE 2.3.67.3
Baldur's gate II SoA: EE 2.3.67.3

If you delete your baldur.lua and baldur.ini files, your local game will regenerate a new file. You only actually need the baldur.lua file now.

Mr2150

Agree - delete both files, you shouldn't have an INI file. I'm not sure what have an INI file instead of a LUA file will do. You should only have a LUA file and that's the one that you can edit the settings in.

Most of the settings in the baldur.lua file look like the ones I pasted...

Luitstra

how do I enable cheats with just the .lua

Luitstra

Mr2150 said:

If you are using 2.0+ of the game, in baldur.lua which is found in your MY DOCUMENTS/*GAME* folder, there are five settings relating to the window mode/full screen mode:

SetPrivateProfileString('Window','Maximized','1')
SetPrivateProfileString('Window','w','1024')
SetPrivateProfileString('Window','x','448')
SetPrivateProfileString('Window','y','156')
SetPrivateProfileString('Window','h','768')
SetPrivateProfileString('Window','Full Screen','0')

Your numbers may be different currently but the format should be the same.



I'd suggest to:

- Close the game, open baldur.lua and change the settings as follows:

- Change the 'Full Screen' (this can be 0 or 1, this is OFF or ON respectively) to a 1 and change 'Maximised' to 0. These are the settings I have when in Full Screen mode. Then save the file. Close it. And then run the game. Any joy?

- If not - reopen baldur.lua and check if the manual changes you made have not been altered somehow. If they have then something is altering them, somehow? Maybe a mod or something else. Is this the case?

- Take a copy of your baldur.lua and save it to your desktop as a backup, then delete the file completely. This will reset all your settings. Now run the game, the game will be forced to generate a new baldur.lua file and should generate it in Full Screen mode.

Let me know how you get on...

just now seeing you are talking about the .lua instead of the .ini:-/ my bad

Mr2150

Did deleting the files work?


For cheats - add the following line:

SetPrivateProfileString('Program Options','Debug Mode','1')

Use Ctrl+Space to open the cheat menu - use C:xxxx instead of CLUAxxxx eg C:CreateItem('BAG31') to create a bag of holding.