In the year 2012, software developers should not even be considering creating user interfaces that don’t allow for the utmost level of control from us, the user. The most painful and taboo of this sin is the fullscreen application. For those of us who consider ourselves to be productive (or ADD), being forced to run a Windows program in fullscreen mode is a complete cramp on our style.
Most glaringly, this occurs in PC games. I’m sure many games look their absolute best when viewed at a fullscreen resolution, but it shouldn’t be on anyone but the user to determine what sort of experience they want to get from the game. If you want to casually play a game in a windowed mode where you can watch other things and talk to friends through email or IMs, you should be able to. Certain games (most often, ones made years ago) won’t allow us to do that.
I’ll try to fix that problem for you and open you up to two different ways that you can manipulate your games (and other programs) into allowing you to run them windowed.
DXWnd
DXWnd simply allows you to run DirectX applications, that don’t support a windowed mode through their interface, in windowed mode. DirectX and OpenGL are the two major engines you’re going to run into when playing a PC game, and DirectX is the more common of the two.
Upon downloading and unzipping the archive, you’ll already notice a default entry set up. Apparently, Michael enjoys MapleStory. That second entry (Final Fantasy VIII) is one I’ve set up on my own. All you’ve got to do is go into the Edit menu and click Add.
There’s a lot that you can configure here, but none of it is required (or recommended). If you know the application runs in 256 colors, just enable that option. If you are aware that DirectInput is hooked, tick that box. I’d recommend allowing DXWnd to automatically detect the version of DirectX to hook. It does a good job.
From there, you can just double click the path of the application back in the main window, or go to Edit then Execute. If all went well, your color scheme may change a bit or your screen might flicker, as DirectX adjusts, and then your application should launch.
Not only am I finally able to play FF8 in a window on the PC, but the smaller resolution of the window actually makes the game look a whole lot better.
D3DWindower
D3DWindower, originally the DXWnd alternative native to Japan, has been translated to the English language. It differs very sparingly from DXWnd, and I only recommend trying D3DWindower if DXWnd didn’t work for you.
The process is really the exact same. You’ll want to click the plus sign, which will bring up a prompt to browse for the EXE you want to emulate through D3DWindower. Navigate to it, select it, and it’ll be added to the list. From there, just select the application in the window and hit the start button.
The settings in D3DWinodwer are a little deeper than DXWnd, but you won’t need to bother with most of them.
The translations aren’t perfect in this program, but there’s enough English so that you’ll be able to navigate around without going crazy.
Know of a tool that will allow us to run OpenGL applications as windowed? Share that with us in the comments! If you need any assistance with these two programs or have anything else to ask or contribute, drop me a comment below and I’ll be sure to get back to you.
The link takes you to a site where it downloads the Japanese version. Where is the English version!?!?!?!
I can tell the guy who wrote this article didn't actually do that much research on DXWnd, otherwise he would have known that both it and D3DWindower are of Japanese origin, it's just the current dev of DXWnd found the original, translated it into English as well as updating it to Visual Studio 2005 compatabilies, and has since expanded it to include OpenGL AND the entire Windows Graphical Device Interface as a whole.
Ah, well i forgot, DXWnd has changed quite a bit, fairly one can say the settings in DXWnd go 'deeper' now (it looks quite different now to the screenshots you posted).
Good finding,
What i guess is relatively unknown is the fact that DXWnd not only executes most DX applications in a Window, it allows also to run old Windows games proper. That was the reason why i noticed this at all. I.e., 'Streets of SimCity' thanks to the 'fake' DX version and formost the possibility to reduce framerate it's possible to play it without that well known problem that the AI cars steady use their hopper (they jump up instead to drive), further it reduces the 'unrecoverable errors' to a minimum, resp. it happens rarely, this counts as well for 'SimCopter'.
Even 'Tiger Woods PGA 2000' is possible to run with the help of this program, which didn't worked well since XP and failed completely under later Windows releases.
I assume in general Win95/98 games are possible to play again, due to the 'fake' DX version,
I can't tell if the other program does that job as well, but i guess not, since two things are important to run old Windows applications DX and framerate. As long as the game runs at all, means it must be a 32bit application, but obviously a Windows App is 32bit. Often installers from 95 are still 16bit and due to that you can't use them and you must find another way to install the game. Often it's enough to simply copy the needed files to the HD (i.e. copter & streets). Sometimes you would need to install the game under a old windows version (that could be in a virtual machine, but to play VMachines are to slow and it's overall a clumsy solution to play games, if you get the VM to run proper at all, it's far more complicated to setup a VM (i.e. that it will recognize a joystick proper) as to run DXWnd) and export the registry entries to import them in the recent Windows you work with.Four ways. And it's still not universal due to directX constantly changing. http://pomax.nihongoresources.com/index.php?entry=1244302766
How to make it work for window 8 or windows 7 64 bit, please help!!!
it crashes when i try to do anything outside the window :(
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Can someone give a step-by-step tutorial on how to run it under wine ?
1 Answer
This game doesn't run well in Wine, but you can play it in Ubuntu by using a virtual machine. You can create a virtual machine by using Virtualbox by following these steps:First, obtain a physical disk of Windows or an .iso
Next, install VirtualBox. You can do so from the Software Center. Once Virtualbox has finished installing, open it.
Click 'New' in the toolbar. In the wizard that appears, click 'Next'. Name the virual machine and click 'Next'. Set the memory size to half your ram. Click Next. Make a new virtual hard disk for the VM, I would recommend around 40 gb. Finish the wizard by clicking 'Create'. Double-click the virtual machine in the list in the VirtualBox main window. In the first run wizard, navigate to the iso you downloaded earlier, or select 'Use Physical Drive'. Follow the on-screen instructions to install Windows.
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I have started using Steam a week or so ago. It works amazing but Im having one problem there. When running some games, I cant see the whole screen, as if the screen was zoomed in. For instance, I just tried demo of Amnesia. I tried to change resolution, turn V Sync ON and OFF, it still cuts the edges of the screen and I was forced to play the demo in windowed mode (I even cant click buttons at the bottom of the screen if there are some).
It doesnt apply to every game though. San Andreas and Audiosurf for instance run fine.
Worms Reloaded have this problem too. It starts in fullscreen but before the menu shows up it turns automaticaly to windowed mode and even there some parts of screen are cut off. I have to navigate to Options and switch resolution every time I run the game to make it go back to fullscreen mode. At least Worms work after that.
I have Windows 7 64bit, Home Premium, graphics card is GeForce 315 (one of those pre-built PCs). Its nothing special but I was able to run Mafia 2 demo at decent quality with it and I cant see why would a lower budget GPU give such trouble.
Widescreen LCD monitor with DVI.
I dont know, maybe it has nothing to do with Steam at all. Has anyone had to solve a similar problem? Also I do have latest drivers for my graphics card and everything installed.
EDIT
Now I got Bully Scholarship Edition and it does the exact same thing. I have created this video for youtube so you can see what the problem is. Ignore the black bars on left and right. The whole screen would be normaly green as thats the fullscreen mode. I only see the red part which somehow stretches or zooms so it fills the whole screen. Theres no deformation of aspect ratio though, its just cut off and zoomed in. I cant even run or quit the game from the main menu as I cant see the buttons which are at the bottom.
I can even see the 'you can now acess community features of Steam, pressing the shortcut' in the bottom right corner of the RED part (which shows at the bottom right of the whole screen for me). Thats really weird.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmrdRwTxLdQ
Issue with running a game in compatibility mode (Bully).
UPDATE
I have found a way to run the issue without displaying the UAC popup using Windows Task Scheduler on the PC.
(Reference: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-eliminate-uac-prompts-for-specific-applications-493128966)
But, I don't think it's possible to run this as a shortcut from Steam itself. The Task Scheduler shortcut is on my desktop, and it will run on the PC, with no problems, and with no UAC popup.
But trying to run this shortcut C:WindowsSystem32schtasks.exe /RUN /TN 'BullyNoUACBully' from Steam does not work. It simply will open schtasks.exe.
UPDATE 2
I found a post on the Steam Forums explaining that UAC will lock you out of input on the Steam-Link. The only known fix as of now is to completely disable UAC.
If anyone has any better ideas. I would love to hear them. Thanks.
Hi Reddit!
I have encountered a problem while trying to play Bully: Scholarship Edition.
There is a well-known issue with the game, where it will crash randomly while playing. A common fix is to run the game in XP SP3 compatibility mode. This seems to work pretty well while playing on the PC. But the UAC popup locks me out of the game while trying to play on the Steam-Link.
If I accept the popup on my PC and try to regain control of the application again, Steam-Link refuses to register any controller inputs (Including the 'Steam Menu' button) , even though it seems to work fine from the PC controller.
When I run the game without compatibility mode, the game runs fine (except for intermittent crashing) on the Steam-Link.
There may be some nuances that I'm not familiar with while using the Steam-Link.
Any troubleshooting would be helpful, thanks.
A couple things about my setup:
Running Windows 10 with three monitors
I am using a wired Xbox 360 controller on the PC
I am using a wired NACON Revolution PRO Controller Gamepad PS4 Playstation 4 eSports Designed on the Steam-Link.
Steam and Bully are all updated
Bully runs at an extremely low resolution, changing this does not help.
Link to the controller: https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Controller-Playstation-Designed-Sony-4/dp/B01MXJF056/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1512011179&sr=1-1&keywords=NACON+Revolution+PRO+Controller+Gamepad+PS4+Playstation+4+eSports+Designed
Hi Sahil,
Thank you so much for posting your query on this forum. You have reached the right place and I will try my best to assist you with this query.
Bully Scholarship Edition Torrent
The Side-by-Side configuration error usually happens when you do not have the correct version of Microsoft Visual C++ software on the computer or some corrupted system files related to Microsoft Visual C++ software.
So, let us first check if you have any corrupted system files on the computer. To check this let us run the SFC Scan and check the scan result.
Run an SFC Scan
The “sfc /scannow” command scans all protected system files and replaces incorrect versions with correct Microsoft versions.
a) Press “Windows Logo” + “X” keys on the keyboard and select “Command Prompt (Admin)” from that menu.
b) On the command prompt window, type the following command, and then press “Enter”
Bully Scholarship Edition Steam
sfc /scannow
c) Follow the on-screen instructions and complete the scan.
For more information, you may refer to the article given below:
If that doesn’t help, then try uninstalling and reinstalling the version of the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable package required for this game on the computer and check if that resolves the issue.
Hope this is helpful. Please get back to us with the result.