Well, we got Vista Enterprise Edition at work today. Naturally I decided to try and run Blood on it.
I went to fire up setup to nix the sound and turn down the video rezolution, where I was greeted with a notification that Setup needs to be run in Administrator mode, we've disabled local Admins here at work in favor of network wide group policy guidelines and I guess the upper ups thought it'd be best if we didn't have that kind of access. No worries, edit blood.cfg still works.
After dumbing Blood down to it's most stable mode (at least for XP) I added in the -quick tag into the MS-DOS shortcut (which looks and acts mostly like XP's) I go to fire it up... "This system does not support fullscreen mode." Yes, it appears that the good folks at Microsoft decided that they could just nix fullscreen DOS mode all together.... I wonder if there's a registry setting that can be change, because honestly it dosen't seem to be that big of a deal, unless there's something up with the whole "Aero" thing.
It looks like DOSBox seems to be the general consensus of how to get things working on Vista about the web right now. I've not tried installing VDMSound so that may yet work, also GLDOS might be another option if you have that.
Vista to Blood: This system does not support fullscreen mode
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Vista to Blood: This system does not support fullscreen mode
Last edited by DustyStyx on Thu Nov 30, 2006 09:25 pm, edited 3 times in total.
Full-screen works on some Vista setups
Fullscreen mode works in Vista if the driver supports it. It seems that old low-powered video cards get fullscreen support in Vista. It isn't in the drivers for high-powered hardware - yet.