Re: Frequently Asked Questions and Problems (Tech Questions Go Here!)
RM's full-screen mode was always botched for me - probably there are a lot of problems depending on system, card manufacturer, drivers, and who knows what else.
I'm pretty sure RM doesn't use DirectDraw... if it would, it would be hardware accelerated and there probably wouldn't be any problems... or they would be different. IIRC, RM uses GDI/GDI+ which was hardware accelerated in Windows XP, but not since Vista.
Anyway, just in case the game tries to use some GPU features or GPU drivers tries to do some things on its own, you can try making the profile for RM game in GPU driver/app and experimenting with various settings... like anti-aliasing, v-sync, etc. - that didn't helped with my issues, but maybe it will help with yours.
Any particular reason why full-screen mode is required? I remember you from RM window resizing thread, so you should have know-how in doing this and it would probably solve the problem. Does VNR require full-screen or is it just a matter of choice?
Thanks for the reply!
I'm pretty sure it's a Windows 8 problem, because as mentioned, the very same games I tried on my Win7, and fullscreen worked just fine; also, doing the registry edit -which basicly is adding the game executable to 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\...\Layers' with the value 'DWM8And16BitMitigation Layer_ForceDirectDrawEmulation'- actually works, and the game will run fine in fullscreen on Win8 as well.
I myself too tried playing with the settings you suggested in the GPU app without any success sadly. Did it globally, and not in profile for a game, so may give it a try - though I think it stands to reason that if it didn't work for global settings...
Anyhoo, the reason I'm asking is because I just very recently noticed how quite a bit worse quality the images are with Sizer and such tools (in 2x the original size, for example), compared to their counterparts in 'real' fullscreen. (Much more) jagged lines and such...
This came up with regards to the translated Mischief War game (thx ewn, again), which being in English, I just wanted to try in fullscreen, but the lag was killing it.
Not all VX/VXAce games are translated unfortunately, though... xD
And on those I hoped to use VNR with the abovementioned registry hack for full user experience - however was crestfallen to see VNR not working in fullscreen using this method.