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by **Don Burnett** » Fri, 23 Nov 2001 08:48:44

> > I tried the windowed mode, and the mirrors worked, however on my 19"
> monitor
> > it is kind of a let down to run it on such a small window.

> > Thanks,

> Maximize the window. It will still be a window, but the size of the full
> screen.

It would not let me maximize the window, that option was greyed out, will
try setting it to run in desktop resolution and see what happens.

Don Burnette

by **Don Burnett** » Fri, 23 Nov 2001 09:17:05

> > I tried the windowed mode, and the mirrors worked, however on my 19"
> monitor
> > it is kind of a let down to run it on such a small window.

> <snip>

> You can set the game resolution to your desktop resolution and the
> top/borders of the game window should be able to be hidden offscreen,
> leaving you with an effectively fullscreen game.

> First, set the WINDOWEDMODE value in the config file.
> Then, re-run the f1-config program and set the res/depth to
> match what is on your desktop. You will even see the "test"
> run in a window.

> Then run f1 and move the window up so you can only see the
> contents and not the border. Tada - fake fullscreen f1-2001
> at decent fps.

> and yes - I think EA suck for letting this driver problem get past
> QA..it's not like EA or ISI can't get advance copies of drivers
> from nvidia - otherwise how come all my other software runs
> better with 21.xx drivers?

> iksteh

Ohh yeah baby, now it's looking good. I set it to run in windowed mode, then
set it up to run in my desktop display resolution - 1280x960, now it looks
great. Mirrors work, and from what I can tell frame rates look better than I
had anticipated. Just ran a 9 lap quick race at Germany, and wore the field
out. Course, now I need to bump the ai up from the default 80% :).
That was interesting, you would think running in windowed mode would hurt
framerates rather than help.
I think I am going to like this one, looks lot better than F12000.
Thanks for the help gang,

Don Burnette

by **STP** » Sat, 24 Nov 2001 02:20:46

Oh well, my memory is probably faulty. I'm running F12001 on a Radeon 8500
now and on this card F12001 doesn't have any of those problems and runs
superbly. R8500 is the card to have for F12001.

by **Don Burnett** » Sat, 24 Nov 2001 02:27:32

> > It would not let me maximize the window, that option was greyed out,
will
> > try setting it to run in desktop resolution and see what happens.

> > Don Burnette

> Oh well, my memory is probably faulty. I'm running F12001 on a Radeon 8500
> now and on this card F12001 doesn't have any of those problems and runs
> superbly. R8500 is the card to have for F12001.

Mine is running great now, at the suggestion of others I set it to match my
desktop resolution - 1280x960.
I actually was suprised at how smooth it runs on my celeron 566 running at
850 mhz and GeForce2 MX 32 mb vid card.
I am very pleased with it now.

Don Burnette

by **Rob Adam** » Sat, 24 Nov 2001 04:03:51

The normal maximize button on the top right is greyed out but you can
maximize the window using the control menu (top left in the title bar). Just
click it and choose Maximize from the dropdown menu.

I set the Start Menu icon to "start maximized" but the game ignores that
setting so I have to maximize it each time, grrr.

Just waiting for the patch which hopefully will let me run it full screen...

Rob

> > It would not let me maximize the window, that option was greyed out,
will
> > try setting it to run in desktop resolution and see what happens.

> > Don Burnette

> Oh well, my memory is probably faulty. I'm running F12001 on a Radeon 8500
> now and on this card F12001 doesn't have any of those problems and runs
> superbly. R8500 is the card to have for F12001.

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