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Robot Arena => General Support => Topic started by: Robotfan99 on May 20, 2018, 12:51:22 AM
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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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what happens when 'it kicks you out'
error message? crash immediately?
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Nothing. The game still runs, but it refuse to play in fullscreen.
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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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Nothing. The game still runs, but it refuse to play in fullscreen.
Try reinstalling Ra2
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How do I do that?
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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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But I don’t make robots and when I did reinstall, it does the same thing.
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But I don’t make robots and when I did reinstall, it does the same thing.
Did you try rebooting?
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How do I do that?
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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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I just tried that, and it didn’t work.
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I’m in the process of resetting my laptop.
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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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Resetting my laptop fixed the problem! :)
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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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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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Window mode makes my game tiny.
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What's your screen size? I'm currently making do with 1024x768 on a 14'' screen.
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I don’t know the screen size, but I do know it’s a Lenovo Yoga 710.
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So I guess it can range from 11'' to 15''. Are you at least able to change the resolution? What's the highest resolution it can offer?
Sorry if I'm only providing workarounds rather than the actual solution. This is most likely a laptop-specific problem and we're not sure what other details to ask for to help resolve this issue.
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1920 x 1080
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Can you post a screenshot of how large it looks in windowed mode?
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Here
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Yeah that's generally how the game looks on my laptop.
I'm guessing that the game doesn't know what ratio to take on when it tries to go fullscreen. Let's try this instead:
If you have Notepad++, use that to edit ra2.cfg (if you don't, go download it). Towards the end of the code, edit the lines to the following -
FullScreen=1
FSDisplayWidth=1920
FSDisplayHeight=1080
FS3DDisplayWidth=1920
FS3DDisplayHeight=1080
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It works!!!!! :claping :claping :smile: :smile:
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I don’t know the screen size, but I do know it’s a Lenovo Yoga 710.
Like the stuff above you, run it windowed
Edit: oh it works...