Need Help!

[CmndrBob]

Ok, I've been trying to 'jury-rig' a Star Trek mod by converting an SEV ST shipset to Star Fury. While I've been having issues with that, my problem right now is rather more critical.

In order to see the error window I had changed the settings so that the game would load in windowed mode. However, the window was too big for my screen, so I tried changing the display properties hoping that would get the whole SF window on to my screen. Well, of course that ended up not working. So I closed the game out and just clicked "Play", figuring that I would just not worry about not being able to see the full window. But then, after clicking "Play" I got an application error:

"Exception Exception in module starfury.exe at 0006B12B
TDirectX.StartAll - Attached Z Buffer)
This surface cannot be attaced to the requested surface."

Then I click "ok" and another error window pops up:

"Access violation at address 0040561C in module 'starfury.exe'. Read of address 7228B284."

I tried uninstalling and then reinstalling Star Fury, but that didn't work. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[Campeador]

What is your standard screen resolution?
The manual states minimum 1024 x 768 display.

In windowed mode, even if your window were too big for your screen, you should be able to see the smaller error window display withing the windowed screen.

Try to get the window issue solve first BEFORE you try to modiffy the game.

[CmndrBob]

My screen resolution is set to 1024 x 768, and that is what it was set to before I tried switching to windowed mode. The problem developed after I tried increasing the resolution to 1152 x 864. Now, the game only works if I have the game set to display in 1024 x 768, it won't load at all if it is set to anything else. This means that I can't run the game in windowed mode now, and I don't know how to fix it.

[Campeador]

That is strenge. My monitor resolution is set at 1152 x 864 and it works fine on either mode. I am assuming that you are ussing the latest patch (1.17).

Check the setup, set the Video Memory to "safe" to see if it makes any difference (as well as any other setting).

[CmndrBob]

I do have the latest version, and Video Memory is set to safe. For some reason, though, if I set my screen resolution any higher than 1024 x 768 and then click "Play"...the game will just not start up and I get that application error. The game runs fine if I keep the screen resolution, and the SF window display set to 1024 x 768 though. I'm thinking perhaps something messed up with DirectX?

[Phoenix-D]

Try setting your desktop to something above 1024, then try Starfury at a higher resolution (mostly to see if that works)

[CmndrBob]

Ok, I tried that and Starfury works at the higher resolution, but it still won't work in windowed mode. I get the same application error.

[Phoenix-D]

Huh. That's an odd combination. When you first changed the resolution when SF was running, what did you change it from and what did you change it to?

[CmndrBob]

My screen resolution (in Windows properties) was at 1024 x 768, and I changed it to 1152 x 864.