D3 in a window?

roid · Post by **roid** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:16 am

how do i shot web?
oops, i mean how do i run D3 in a window?

(not using linux)

i swear, i used to run D3 in a window before, but i was just trying to and i couldn't figure out how. please help me DBB

Aus-RED-5 · Post by **Aus-RED-5** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:29 am

roid wrote:how do i shot web?
oops, i mean how do i run D3 in a window?

(not using linux)

i swear, i used to run D3 in a window before, but i was just trying to and i couldn't figure out how. please help me DBB

I hope someone knows, because I'd like to know too.

Spooky · Post by **Spooky** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 7:55 am

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:14 am

Uh... no... they're talking about running D3 in a window rather than fullscreen.

Testiculese · Post by **Testiculese** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 10:35 am

Try right-clicking on the d3 exe and seeing if you can change the properties to windowed. It would make a PIF file for it, which you would use to launch the game. That used to work for some things. (UT1 can run in a window)

Xamindar · Post by **Xamindar** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 11:33 am

roid wrote: (not using linux)

aww, shut me up before I could speak.

I didn't think you could in windows. But I would also like to know if it is possible.

ATM I just alt-tab out of it. There has to be another window open (firefox for example) to do it.

By the way, what is your pilot name in multiplayer roid?

Spooky · Post by **Spooky** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 11:56 am

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 12:39 pm

The game is main.exe . Descent3.exe ist the launcher..

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:17 pm

It doesn't matter, .pif files and the options Testi mentions only apply to console and DOS applications, not to Win32 EXE's.

Xamindar · Post by **Xamindar** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:18 pm

The only way to do it would probably be through some command line switch right?

Are there any?

This game was originally made for the voodoo and glide. Glide didn't do windowed mode when this game came out. Or maybe it did, but not very well.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:47 pm

Glide didn't do windowed mode at all. That was one of its drawbacks. It was bitchin' fast fullscreen, but your app would have to fall back to OpenGL or DirectX (or even software! GAK!) if it wanted to run in a window.

I guess maybe a good idea would be to open up main.exe in a hex editor and look for the word \"window\".

roid · Post by **roid** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 11:31 pm

damn. i must've been dreaming then when i thought i remembered D3 running in a window.

Xamindar wrote:By the way, what is your pilot name in multiplayer roid?

roid

(i'm not setup to play online atm, maybe in a few weeks i'll hook everythign back up and jump back in)

Xamindar · Post by **Xamindar** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 1:36 am

DCrazy wrote:Glide didn't do windowed mode at all.

I think you are correct. Allthough, my voodoo 5 worked in a window. But I think that was a new thing that only those new voodoo 5 chips could to (VSA chip or whatever). I think the voodoo 5 came out after D3 did.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:07 am

Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo3 could do windowed too. It's all about glide3, which the Voodoo Banshee premiered, and the fact that the Voodoo Banshee on up were no longer 3d add-on cards. (Voodoo Rush doesn't belong in this category for suckiness reasons.) Of course, this isn't to say that Descent3 will window with any of these cards. I think Descent3 used glide2, and I don't think it matters because I don't remember there being the ability to window to begin with.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:16 am

I don't remember being able to do windowed on my Voodoo3 2000 PCI (which I explicitly bought for D3 way back when

). DirectX flat out refused to run in anything but software/reference, and I seem to remember an explicit distinction made between the 2D and 3D subsystems of the card. But I could be wrong.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:49 am

Who didn't buy a Voodoo3 for D3?

It seems like any authoritative source on the issue has been erased from the Internet a long time ago, but Google did turn up these snippets:

http://www.infohq.com/Computer/VideoCards.htm
\"Also, Voodoo3 can display 3D in greater than 1024x768 mode, and it can also display 3D in a window.\"

http://www.imgmagazine.com/news/story.p ... cleID=3156

Sir Sam II · Post by **Sir Sam II** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:04 am

Jeff250 wrote:Who didn't buy a Voodoo3 for D3?

Yes, come to think of it mine just disappeared after I bought my Ti4400 & I moved 4 times.

Aus-RED-5 · Post by **Aus-RED-5** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:49 am

Jeff250 wrote:Who didn't buy a Voodoo3 for D3?

Yes... I got a Voodoo3 3000 PCI card for $99 so I could play D3 when it came out.

Then a few years later got a Voodoo4 4500 PCI and Voodoo5 5500 AGP when they came out.

Still have the V4 and V5 cards.

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