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Setup Won't Apply Video Settings

I'm running WinXP Home Ed. on an Athlon 1600XP machine with a GeForce4 Ti4600 video card and a SB Audigy Gamer sound card.

Recently I reinstalled FS2 after quite a long hiatus. In the Setup Menu, my video and sound cards appear to be detected (1024 resolution, high-res textures, EAX sound, etc.). However, the APPLY button is grayed out and I can only proceed to the game if I leave it at 640x480 resolution.

I've tried different compatibility modes and I have all the latest drivers. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for any help!

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Have you run it through the test yet. To see if you can actually do those resolutions or not. You have to test first.

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Yes I have. The higher video & audio options don't appear UNTIL you've tested your hardware.

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So why don't you just press OK when you've selected what you want? Its never let me press Apply.

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I'm a lazy person:

What does habing it in 1024x768 actually do? Doesn't it just make everything smaller? Can you actually see more on the screen at once?

My ickle Duron 1Ghz@1.2Ghz and my crappy 32Mb card (which renders at about 40fps in 640x480) has asked me not to try to play FS2 in high resolution. The drivers are currently at a tea party and are unavailable until I pay £100 for a new graphics card.

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Well in a sense 1024x768 does make everything smaller but thats a good thing.

For one, the edges between one poly and another are drawn with alot more pixels per area of space on the screen so the edges of ships will appear much smoother (with full screen anti-aliasing - 640x480 kind of looks this good too).

Interface looks alot better because its rendered at a higher resolution and everything else will just seem sharper and more detailed.

A 32MB video card should have no trouble with FreeSpace 2 and 1024x768. I've got a 32mb video card and its perfect for this game. 40 FPS is great too because thats 10 FPS faster than your eye can see anyways.

Now, slowdowns may be caused by 32bit color pallet. Go down to 16bit and you should have no trouble and notice little difference.

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1024x768 makes it look better on a 17" monitor where the interface likely looks too big and possibly is pixelated. If you're using a 15" monitor (like me) the only differences I've seen are that it uses 200+ megs more HD space to have the high-res pack installed and makes the HUD things look smaller. The ships in the game looked the same to me.

As far as I know, the only reason different resolutions exist is because monitors come in different sizes these days and each monitor has it's own "best" resolution.

14" = 640x480
15" = 800x600
17" = 1024x768

And so on. Using 800x600 on a 14" monitor makes text look a lot smaller and maybe unreadable for some people. Same for 1024x768 on a 15". 640x480 on a 15" makes things look huge. And that just looks bad.

Edit: I don't think the apply button ever gets enabled.

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are you eyedead or what on a 17' you set it to

1152x864 then it is normal you play games on 1024x786 dough

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Good news! FS2's setup engine decided to honour my request for higher graphics and sound settings. I don't know why, but when I tried it for the umpteenth time it just started instead of giving me that obstinant little message about not having configured my graphics card.

Thanks, all!

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Does XP Home give all new accounts Admin rights by default (I normally create all my accounts through the Local Users and Groups console where you have to specify groups manually. Much morepowerful than XPs (and 2k's too, although IIRC 2k's actually let you assign Power User rights...) crappy little "Add User" wizard)? The launcher won't apply the settings (nor will FS2 change the last selected pilot) unless started with Admin rights.

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