help: alt tabbing out of tactics

picollo7 · Post by **picollo7** » Mon Jul 29, 2002 12:48 pm

Is there anyway to get out of Tactics while it is running, I can't alt tab out of it. Is there any way to change this?

Blacken · Post by **Blacken** » Mon Jul 29, 2002 11:15 pm

First, let me introduce you to something called Di-Rect-X. This lets your computer draw pretty pictures, among other things.

Second, now let me introduce you to Di-Rect-X Re-Tain-D Mo-duh. This mode lets your computer draw pretty pictures without letting you screw with it by taking away its resources.

FOT uses Retained Mode.

So no.

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 1:11 am

Any attempt to do it will crash Tactics.

Max-Violence · Post by **Max-Violence** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 1:17 am

Assholes aside, the only way to "get out" of FOT while it's running is to use windowed mode. To do so:

1) Right-click on the shortcut you use to start Fallout Tactics.

2) Click on the "Shortcut" tab.

3) In the "Target" textbox, you'll see something like "C:\Program Files\14 Degrees East\Fallout Tactics\XXXXX.exe"

Where I wrote XXXXX.exe, you should have BOS.exe. If you don't, simply type it in.

4) After that's done, simply add the following in the same textbox:

-w

Your final shortcut should look like this:

"C:\Program Files\14 Degrees East\Fallout Tactics\BOS.exe" -w

Note that if you didn't install the game to the default location (which is what's above), you'll see something different. The important part is the BOS.exe" -w part :mrgreen:

Note: You could just copy/paste what's in bold text into the textbox, and you should be good-to-go.

Blacken · Post by **Blacken** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 1:57 am

Yeah, true, you could do that. However, framerates go down and I've encountered some very odd video/sound/input bugs with it in windowed mode. Not recommended.

Max-Violence · Post by **Max-Violence** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 12:21 pm

Well, I run the editor and the actual game in windowed mode, and I don't have any problems. I actually get better framerates when windowed.

Wierd.

Blacken · Post by **Blacken** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 12:10 am

That better framerate is because the game is reading the WINDOWS frame refresh rate, not the game's. And I run the editor in windowed mode myself. But the game is far too choppy in windowed mode (32MB TNT2) to be recommended.

picollo7 · Post by **picollo7** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 3:48 am

Thanks for your help guys, I got the game running in windowed mode just fine, but now it always goes into windowed mode, even after removing the -w parameter, how can I make it go back into full screen mode?

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 4:27 am

Max-Violence · Post by **Max-Violence** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 7:30 am

I'm with JJ86 on this one.

picollo7 · Post by **picollo7** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 10:49 am

I figured it out after much screwing around with the config files. If anybody else has this problem, all you need to do is go into "core" directory in you bos folder and open the bos.cfg file with notepad, the very first line, it says display.bbs or something like that I don't exactly remember. The value next to it will say 0 if it goes to window mode. Change it to 1 and save and it will start in full screen mode.

vVolf · Post by **vVolf** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 4:17 pm

1st: Max..Great Avitar!

2nd: I have a keyboard with buttons that you can program to open different programs. For example...

If you aint allowed to be playing FO:T and your mom is comeing up tha hall, you can just press a shortcut button, and it goes straight to a program.

I reccomend buying one of these keyboards if you need to get away from this... :roll: ... And, program the buton to go to an 'easy-to-run' program, like MS Paint for example.

You get it?

Max-Violence · Post by **Max-Violence** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 1:14 am

vVolf wrote:1st: Max..Great Avitar!

Thanks! :mrgreen:

Picollo7: I was going to post about that line in the config file, but I kept forgetting! Sorry, I could've saved you "much screwing around"

vVolf · Post by **vVolf** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 2:13 pm

lol, yea that coulda helped a little bit.

Stealth Rabbit · Post by **Stealth Rabbit** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 12:14 am

What the hell... I checked the BOS.cfg file after I couldnt get the game and editor to get out of windowed mode. On mine it says:
{Display.bpp} = {32} (It might say 16 on someone else's)
That is only for image quality, 32 bit, or 16bit.

Flamescreen · Post by **Flamescreen** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 12:40 am

This is not mine, Red told me. You guys should check the topics a bit. If in game you go to options and select one of the given resolutions it changes back to full screen.

vVolf · Post by **vVolf** » Tue Nov 26, 2002 1:35 pm

omg! I pressed Alt+F7 and FO:T Closed down! lol!!! 8O

MurPHy · Post by **MurPHy** » Tue Nov 26, 2002 8:43 pm

omg! I pressed Alt+F7 and FO:T Closed down! lol!!!

Heh. Mr. Unlucky, eh?

vVolf · Post by **vVolf** » Thu Nov 28, 2002 1:12 pm

Yea, and its not even a shortcut. I was going so well!

Lemon · Post by **Lemon** » Thu Nov 28, 2002 4:03 pm

it lets me alt-tab

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