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Old December 6th, 2004, 07:25 PM

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Default Re: Dominions II: Technical/Hardware Issues

Sometimes during battle scenes my game freezes up and forces me to cold boot. I have the latest graphic drivers (Nvidia 66.93), directx9c and the 2.14 patch on Windows2000. I don't play Online.

The culprit appears to be something from the following applications that occur at the same time the game freezes...

Information - ccEvtMgr 7:21:56 (from NT Authority/System, no specifics)
Information - ccEvtMgr 7:21:57 (same as above)
Warning - WinMgmt 7:22:39 (WMI ADAP was unable to create object index 2022 for Performance Library MSDTC because no value was found in the 009 subkey)
Error - PerfNet 7:22:40 (Unable to open the Server service. Server performance data will not be returned. Error code returned is in data DWORD 0.)

Disabling Norton did not help. Uninstalling/reinstalling did not help. Changing graphic options did not help, disabling sound (via -s) did not help & this only happens with Dominions2 as no other games/software freezes everything and causes me to reboot.

Suggestions?
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Old April 7th, 2005, 02:24 PM
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Default Setting video preferences

Hello,

My system crashed and I had to reinstall DOMII. I reinstalled it loaded the 2.15 patch. When I go to video options and I try to remove the check off the full screen option the DOM window becomes a SDL something window and then nothing happenes. I am using windows 2000 and I forgot how to check what video card and cpu stats sorry.

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Old April 12th, 2005, 06:56 PM

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Default Resolution glitch in demo

Hi. A friend told me about Dominions, so I downloaded the demo. When I run it, I can hear the audio but there's no video. I'm prompted to change my resolution to 1400X1040, but it's already set to that!

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Can you help? I'd like to play!
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Old April 13th, 2005, 03:25 PM
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Default Re: Resolution glitch in demo

Try running Dominions with the -w switch to start it in windowed mode.
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Old April 17th, 2005, 01:15 PM

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Default Re: Resolution glitch in demo

Johan-

Thanks for responding. I'm not sure what you mean by '-w switch.' Is it a DOS command? The only way I know to start the game is from the 'All programs' menu. Sorry I'm not up to speed, but could you please specify? Thanks.

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Default Re: Resolution glitch in demo

The '-w switch' is a command line switch. In dos, it would be used like this:

C:\Games\Illwinter\Dominions II\>dom2 -w

In Windowses, you can use dos promp. Click Start, click Run, write 'cmd', and a black window with white text that looks and acts very much like DOS pops up. Most dos commands work for it, and you can go to your Dominions II directory and test if the game works with this.

If it works, you want it to be easily usable. This can be done with the help of shortcut, like the one that probably is on your desktop. Right-click on the DomII icon (Belphegor the Lord of Corruption, IIRC) and choose properties. Now you should be able to write in the target (for me "E:\Dominions II\dom2.exe") amd working folder (for me "E:\Dominions II"). You just have to add the '-w' to the end of the target line. It seems it has to added outside the quotes, like this:
"E:\Dominions II\dom2.exe" -w

You might not have the words "target" and "working folder" in there, because those are direct translations from my Finnish windows's respective words.2
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Default Mac bug in 2.16?

Just upgraded to 2.16 a few days ago, and have noticed a strange occurence. Twice now, while playing my turn in a multiplayer game on Mosehansen's server, my Mac suddenly reboots. Now, I have an older Mac, so I am prepared to say the power supply might be going, but it is strange that the only times I have had this happen are while playing Dom2. Any ideas? Could Dom be doing this?
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Default widescreen resolutions?

Is there any chance of getting support for some widescreen resolutions into Dom2? Say, 1920x1200?
Is there some way to hack support into what we've got?
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Default Re: widescreen resolutions?

It is easy to set your own favorite resolution by using some commandline switches.

--res 1920 1200

should do what you want.
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Old June 20th, 2005, 02:26 PM
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Default Re: widescreen resolutions?

It's not quite obvious on Mac OS X... What you need to do is:
cd dominions2.app/Contents/Resources/
../MacOS/dominions2 --res 1920 1200
Otherwise the game doesn't know where to find the GUI graphics. This works, though.
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