I am trying to get Aleph One running on a new computer, and am encountering some strange behavior.
When I start it, it's like I'm viewing the middle of the left part of the game's home screen, in full screen. That is, the actual physical screen is full, but everything's twice as big, and shoved off the top, bottom, and right edges. It stays this way after starting a game.
Depending on how you look at it, the cursor and cursor position, are unaffected. I can't move past the edge of the screen, but I have to guess where to click to activate any button except for the credits.
Even stranger, I think, this only happens with the original trilogy. It works fine with the scenarios I have: Rubicon, Phoenix, Evil, RED, and Eternal. Everything, including the trilogy, works fine on my own computer (Windows 8.1, 32-bit).
I have tried nuking everything, Aleph One and scenario folders both, and downloading fresh from lhowon.org, to no effect.
specs for the new computer:
Windows 10 (64-bit)
AMD Radeon HD 5830
AMD Phenom II X4 840T 2.9 GHz
8 GB RAM
One last bit of weird behavior, that I mention in case it's related: in game, when I look around, sometimes my guy keeps turning long after I've stopped moving the mouse. I guess this might be related to the sensitivity? That's freakishly high, too, but I've had THAT happen before.
Marathon is my absolute favorite game of all time, and I want him to play it (and so does he). His old computer, (WinXP) wouldn't even try to run it, either. Granted, that thing just all around sucked, but it does make this extra frustrating. I would REALLY appreciate help here, even if it's just tentative ideas that might not work.
display is huge, way past full screen
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HelviusRufus
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Probably you've already tried,donutguy640 wrote: ...even if it's just tentative ideas that might not work.
but in graphics setup set the screen size to a specific number and not "automatic".
Or, some setting in the computer's display; maybe in scale and layout or ease of access that don't show up in "normal" use.
The downloads use the 20150620 release for AlephOne, you might try downloading the 1.3b2 release and see if'n that works. It does for some and doesn't for some.
It's odd that Rubicon, Phoenix, Evil, RED, and Eternal, work and only the original trilogy doesn't.
I just play 'em; I don't know how they work.
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Are you sure you nuked your preferences? They're in a hidden directory, on Windows I think it's somewhere in something like %appdata
Are you using the all-in-one apps for the trilogy? You might want to try downloading the game data separately and see if using the default A1 app works. It might not, but knowing whether it does will still tell us something relevant.
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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
“If others had not been foolish, we should be so.” —William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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donutguy640
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That worked, thank you VERY much!HelviusRufus wrote:The downloads use the 20150620 release for AlephOne, you might try downloading the 1.3b2 release and see if'n that works. It does for some and doesn't for some.
Ravenshining, I apparently hadn't, I thought the preferences files were in the program folder, not the user data folder. It didn't work, but thank you for the suggestion all the same! Also, nice pic
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donutguy640
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Funny, I only recall seeing 2 replies when I made my last comment...sorry, didn't mean to thank everyone but youThe Man wrote:Are you using the all-in-one apps for the trilogy? You might want to try downloading the game data separately and see if using the default A1 app works. It might not, but knowing whether it does will still tell us something relevant.
Anyway, I didn't know there was an all in one app. Would you be able to find/link to it easily, or tell me exactly what to look for? Or, how is it different, is it easier for the computer-illiterate to use, at the cost of only being for the trilogy?
There isn't an all in one app for Windows. Just ignore him!
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HelviusRufus
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I may be wrong, I often am, but I think he was referring to not using the AO that comes with the Marathon2 download, for example, but to replace it with a separately downloaded AO as you would with Yuge or Eternal. With the trilogy, you get a copy of AO in the download which is the "all-in-one" idea.
I just play 'em; I don't know how they work.