First post, by Ikrananka
I'm in the process of getting my old DOS Stalingrad war game (by Avalon Hill) up and running. It works fine in a standard Windows DOS box (obviously with no sound) and I have managed to get it working using VDMSound 2.0.4 (Update 2) and Launcher 1.0.1.1 with sound working great. However, I can only get the game to run in a video resolution of 640 x 480. A setup program allows you to set the program to run at higher resolutions. Whenever I set it to a higher resolution and then run the game, my monitor just goes to sleep (i.e. gets no video signal).
Now, the game uses VESA. However, if I activate basic VESA support in Launcher then the sound goes all choppy. If I turn off basic VESA support then the sound is perfect and the games runs at 640 x 480 no problems. I don't understand why the game works with VESA support turned off??? Anyway - not a problem.
I believe that I cannot run the game at higher resolutions because I am using an NVidia GeForce4 Ti4200 vdieo card. Is this correct and the most likely cause of my problem? Is there any way around this problem or are the video modes restricted by the video cards VESA support?
Thanks for any feedback.
Windows XP (latest SP)
Gainard NVidia GeForce4 Ti4200