Shortcuts with command line options for CUSTOM and GAME?

Hey all,

I just recently upgraded to Win7 when I put together a new system (late adopter, I know), and haven't had any problems using OHR in the new environment... EXCEPT ONE!

Back in XP, I made shortcuts for both CUSTOM and GAME that started them with 3x zoom and in full-screen respectively. In the "target" box of the shortcut properties, I would have, for instance:

"C:\path\game.exe" -f

And it would run game fullscreen, no problems. However, this doesn't work at all in Win7. Even from the command prompt, I can't start either program in fullscreen from the command line. I *CAN* go into fullscreen once the programs are started with alt-enter, so the capability is there, it's just like the command line options aren't being read somehow.

Anyone have any insights about what's going on?

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That sounds like a bug. I can test it on a Windows 7 machine on Monday and let you know if I get the same result.

I am also curious if this is a gfx backend bug. Try:

game.exe -gfx sdl -f

and see if it works. That will tell us if this is a gfx_directx problem or a general fullscreen problem.

Thanks for responding, James.

The -f option DOES work with -gfx sdl...

...but problematically. For instance, when I use alt-enter to fullscreen with the directx backend, it preserves the aspect ratio, but stretches it out to widescreen under SDL. Also once I close the program, it's moved all my open windows from my first monitor desktop to my second monitor desktop. I dunno if these latter issues are even under your control at all, but I just figured I'd mention them anyway. In any case, command line options "work" under SDL!

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That was a good hunch; I was totally clueless as to what the problem might be.

Did you also upgrade from Ypsiliform to Zenzizenzic when moving to your new computer? I can't imagine any possible Windows 7-sepcific problem.

Any SDL fullscreen bugs are totally out of our control, unfortunately. However a new SDL version was released recently. There's no mention of anything like that in the changelog, but you can try it if you want. Download http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.15-win32.zip, and replace the copy of SDL.dll that came with the OHR.

Ah, sorry, I should have specified that I'm using the nightly from a few days ago (Feb 27).

However, I just tried this out with the stable Zenzizenzic release as well, and the shortcuts also fail to work unless the SDL backend is specified.

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Is Harlock making another ohr game?!

Curious if there's any tricks to start game.exe in a custom way, to control how you want it to look when you release your game.

Not yet, aside from providing a batch file or shortcut. Want to do that. Custom also, of course. Then no one will need to use command line options.

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Oh actually, it would probably be possible to fix the widescreen full screen issue under SDL, by running at a more normal resolution instead of 640x400.