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Right now when I start the game it freezes my second screen and I would rather have it available. Can it be played in window mode?

Thanks

Yes. Write FULLSCREEN<tab>NO into your config file.

I used to have huge problems with RTC on fullscreen, it was very disturbing, it was even causing the whole computer to crash, freeze or reboot. Now I only play RTC in a window and it works fine.

Thank you for teh update. I played all week-end that way.

A lot better. I can watch a movie while playing. Having two screen does have it advantages unless a game cannot be played windowed.

I find myself playing the occasional game and sometimes watching films windowed. Too much media, so little time!

Maybe change resolution would prevent crashes? Default is very minimal 640x480x24 (change SCREEN_MODE in cfg file)

Am test it at maximum: 1366x768x32 game screen is tiny in middle of monitor, but it dont cause this changing resolution flicker
From my observation is that if am set 640x480 or 800x600 windowed, game screen is the same tiny, difference is size of black frame around it
In full screen low resolution it seem to stretch bit larger
But for safety am guess choice would be 640x480 windowed -for testing created dungeon or 1366x768 full -for playing game (where this value is resolution am use all time on monitor, am set this to not change it after run or quit game)

BTW from RTC FAQ

4. Can I play RTC in a window?
Yes (but this mode is unsupported). Simply add the line
FULLSCREEN NO
(with a tab between the two words) to a new line in the config.txt file. Please bear in mind that when running like this, the frame rate will be lower than in full screen mode and there may be some glitches in colour. As mentioned above, this is an unsupported mode, untested and (otherwise) undocumented; if you experience any problems with it, please switch back to full screen.

Hi guys. Is there a way to stretch the picture when running in windowed mode? It's very tiny

Tiny ! Change the display resolution.
I don't know a way to strech.

I have a better question .The side of the screen are black on my new laptop and i would like it to be full screen . Changing resolution only makes everything smaller and still has the black sides?

I don't think that's fixable, due to the resolution the game is designed in, or something.

Look in the config.txt for a setting to control fullscreen. You'll never be able to make it fill a widescreen laptop though, the ratio is all wrong. (RTC emulates the old 4:3 ratio ONLY).

Gambit37 wrote:Look in the config.txt for a setting to control fullscreen. You'll never be able to make it fill a widescreen laptop though, the ratio is all wrong. (RTC emulates the old 4:3 ratio ONLY).

Thanks .

To me the funny irony in that is that the original FTL DM was made for a 16:10 resolution.
(At least over here in 320x200 land! in PAL countries I think it was actually 4:3 or something much more like it... )