Problems with display of one of my games....

[ChristopherC]

A friend of mine kindly upgraded my OS from 98SE to XP.

Now one of my games, Master of Orion III by Infogrames, if you wish to know, has a squeezed 'wide-screen' display with a lot of black screen above and below the top and bottom borders. I should say that I have heavily modded the game, which may have caused problems.

I imagine that my screen got reconfigured during the upgrade? Trying to simply expand the screen by the control buttons doesn't work, I hasten to add. Nor changing the screen settings. I still get the 'wide-screen' effect.

I checked my drivers, including that I have the latest DirectX, according to the XP help centre, and all seems in order and up to date but I am still wondering whether it is a driver problem or at least whether a new driver, perhaps the latest NVIDIA drivers, I have a Tornado Geforce II videocard, will solve the problem? Some one on the games forums made this distinction between DirectX drivers and Win XP drivers. I am a little anxious about installing new drivers, but I have made a restore point for the system, in case I screw up.

I am ready to reinstall the game under the new OS and start a new game if necessary. I just need to know that it is necessary and there isn't another solution.

Any advice will be gratefully received.

[vidster]

Before reinstalling you could try right clicking on the game icon and selecting properties. Then click on compatibility. From there try running it in compatibility mode for windows 98.

It's a long shot but hey...it beats reinstalling

[ChristopherC]

Many thanks for your reply, Vidster.

I dont have an ikon for MOO3 game, though. Never needed it before. Just inserted the CD.

However, through separate advice, I have been advised that there is this option on some games, at least.

I will mull this over.

Live long and prosper.

[ChristopherC]

I have reinstalled the basic MOO3 game and I stilll have a squeezed screen!

What on earth else could it be? Some incompatibility between my monitor and XP? Surely, it can't be some problem MOO3 has with XP or I would have heard about that by now?