Changing Win7 taskbar position messes up screen?

[Mobhack]

If it worked OK before you moved the task bar up top, and now is not working even though you put it back to the bottom, then it is likely to be a windows problem. The game has no memory of the task bar position, so it must be windows that is storing something?. (Where it is squirrelled away - I have no idea).

Only suggestion may be that in moving the task bar, you resized its height a few pixels inadvertently (just a wild guess). Moving stuff in windows by drag and drop can cause the size to change I have found if you grabbed it by some edge that windows thinks is "hot".

Also - some laptops have a feature to turn off the on-board display if connected to an external monitor. Should be in the display properties, somewhere?. If yours has that facility then you may well be able to use the larger real estate of that screen. (The game uses the primary monitor screen dimensions - which is the laptop's smaller resolution here - but should be the external if you have the facility to tell it to not use it with the external screen hooked up).

Andy

[Gurachn]

Thanks Andy,
It doesn't surprise me in the least to hear that this is most likely a windows issue. I just recently switched to Win7 and still not too sure about it.

I tried turning off the laptop monitor and running only the external, but no dice. Same weird diagonal thing.
Interestingly, I tried in Fullscreen - Desktop res, and though the initial screens had the palette messed up, the actual game was only a little off.

Anyway, I'm not too worried. It works fine on the laptop alone, and I can run it at 1600x1200 with only a little overlap on the top/botton and only 80 less pixels on the sides, so thats not too bad.

I hate a mystery though, so I will continue to play around with different combinations, and if I hit upon a solution I will let you guys know.
Best,

Grant