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Game wont let me play in fullscreen *Update* :)
« on: May 20, 2018, 12:51:22 AM »
Hi everyone. I'm new to the forums and I am starting to have a problem whenever I play any version of RA2 on my Windows 10 laptop. When I try to play in fullscreen, it just kicks me out while the game is still running. It has never happen to me before, until now. :( I have fixed the problem by resetting my laptop. :)
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Re: Game wont let me play in fullscreen
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2018, 02:30:41 AM »
what happens when 'it kicks you out'
error message? crash immediately?
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Re: Game wont let me play in fullscreen
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2018, 02:40:15 AM »
Nothing. The game still runs, but it refuse to play in fullscreen.

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Re: Game wont let me play in fullscreen
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2018, 07:37:10 AM »
So no "RobotArena2.exe has stopped working" message? If not, i would say try Alt-Tab, but what do I know. I'm an antweight.
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Re: Game wont let me play in fullscreen
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2018, 09:08:24 AM »
Nothing. The game still runs, but it refuse to play in fullscreen.
Try reinstalling Ra2
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Re: Game wont let me play in fullscreen
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2018, 03:05:52 PM »
How do I do that?

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Re: Game wont let me play in fullscreen
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2018, 04:20:12 PM »
How do I do that?

Export all your bots, copy and paste the Robot Designs folder to an external location (like your desktop) delete everything (except your Robot Designs folder obviously) and go to our downloads section, and download Ra2 from there, copy + paste your bots to the new robot designs folder, and import them back.
That should fix it.
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Re: Game wont let me play in fullscreen
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2018, 04:35:25 PM »
But I don’t make robots and when I did reinstall, it does the same thing.

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Re: Game wont let me play in fullscreen
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2018, 04:38:48 PM »
But I don’t make robots and when I did reinstall, it does the same thing.

Did you try rebooting?
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Re: Game wont let me play in fullscreen
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2018, 04:59:39 PM »
How do I do that?

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Re: Game wont let me play in fullscreen
« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2018, 06:28:33 PM »
How do I do that?

Hold the off button on your computer until it turns off. On systems that have power lights, the indicator will turn off.

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Re: Game wont let me play in fullscreen
« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2018, 08:27:45 PM »
I just tried that, and it didn’t work.

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Re: Game wont let me play in fullscreen
« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2018, 08:53:36 PM »
I’m in the process of resetting my laptop.

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Re: Game wont let me play in fullscreen
« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2018, 08:59:07 PM »
If the screen goes black but the game keeps running, hit Ctrl + Alt + Del and then hit open task manager. This should force the game into a minimized state and pull up the task manager. You can just close out of the task manager and click the RA2 icon on your taskbar. This should pull up the game and make it so that you can play fullscreen again. If this doesnt work then I have no idea lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Re: Game wont let me play in fullscreen
« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2018, 09:46:24 PM »
Resetting my laptop fixed the problem! :)

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Re: Game wont let me play in fullscreen *Update* :)
« Reply #15 on: May 22, 2018, 06:04:43 PM »
It turns out it is happening again and my computer does the same thing when on fullscreen. I guess it does not like running on fullscreen. :(

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Re: Game wont let me play in fullscreen *Update* :)
« Reply #16 on: May 22, 2018, 07:08:27 PM »
Is it that hard to play RA2 in windowed mode? Unless your screen is too tiny, the only thing annoying in windowed mode is RA2 crashing when you don't close a dropdown list quickly enough.
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Re: Game wont let me play in fullscreen *Update* :)
« Reply #17 on: May 22, 2018, 08:49:49 PM »
Window mode makes my game tiny.

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Re: Game wont let me play in fullscreen *Update* :)
« Reply #18 on: May 22, 2018, 09:01:46 PM »
What's your screen size? I'm currently making do with 1024x768 on a 14'' screen.
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Re: Game wont let me play in fullscreen *Update* :)
« Reply #19 on: May 22, 2018, 09:08:41 PM »
I don’t know the screen size, but I do know it’s a Lenovo Yoga 710.