Unable to run game since I changed screens

Published on June 8, 2013 By f03tu$ In Twilight of the Arnor

I've got a rather annoying issue. I used to have a 22 inch monitor under a 1680x1050 resolution which broke recently, so I plugged my old 19 inch, 1440x900 screen back on my computer.

Ever since then, I have been utterly unable to run GalcivII:TotA. Dark Avatar and GalcivII work fine, but Arnor will simply give me a black screen after opening and then nothing. No intro video, no audio, no cursor. Ram usage for the game is at around 8 megs, and never increases.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game, but the problem persists.

The other two games I haven't played in eons. I never even played them with that 22inch screen, and were under 1024x768 under firstboot after I reinstalled GalcivII.

Is there a way I can force screen resolution back to 1440x900, or could this be something else?

I have Windows 7 SP1 x64 and my drivers are up to date. I can produce a dxdiag if needed.

Thanks in advance.

Comments

kryo

on Jun 08, 2013

The game has a prefs.ini file in its folder under my documents/my games which has the resolution setting. You can manually modify it there, or just delete the file entirely and it'll reset to the default.

f03tu$

on Jun 08, 2013

Thanks! It worked.

I was looking in the game directory and couldn't find anything. Didn't think of checking the My Games folder.

Thanks a lot! Now I can conquer the Galaxy again

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