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error: No video mode large enough for 800x600

thats what pops up. what do i do???

Hm... what resolution is your monitor running at? If it's not bigger than 800x600, you'll get this problem.

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thanks but, my resolution already is quite high.

its at 1680 by 1050 pixels. any other suggestions?

Hm... I think it's time to get more information about your system. What platform are you running on, and what are the video mode settings?

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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming" - Theodore Roosevelt

well i have a laptop. its a dell, windows xp, media center edition. the computer is definitely newer. and i have a NVIDIA or something. but its sorta screwed up.
i can't play super high resolution games. damage was done to the directx video things idk...???

Display: is (multiple monitors) on NVIDA GeForce Go 7300
Screen resolution: 1680 by 1050 pixels.
Color quality: Highest (32 bit)

those or the display properties. and i have a windows xp. the platform is dell and its about a year old.

SDL can be a bit funny when it comes to resolutions and fullscreened mode. Is there a commandline switch or configuration thing to make the game run in windowed mode from the start?

That's not necessarily ideal, but it should at least run.

Hm... the way to do this is to set the RENPY_DISABLE_FULLSCREEN environment variable to "true". I'm not sure how to do this under windows... maybe a windows expert can help us out.

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I wouldn't call myself a Windows 'expert', but...

(There's probably various ways to get to the config panel in question, this is just how I'd do it.)

Vista

- Open an Explorer window and in the 'Folders' pane, right-click 'Computer' and choose 'Properties'.
- Under 'Tasks' at the left, choose 'Advanced System Settings'.
- On the 'Advanced' tab (the default) at the bottom, hit the 'Environment Variables' button.
- In the 'User Variables for <Name>' section at the top, hit 'New...', type 'RENPY_DISABLE_FULLSCREEN' (no quotes) into the 'Variable name' field and 'true' (again, no quotes) into the 'Variable value' field.
- Hit 'OK' until you've closed everything you just opened.

XP

- Right-click on 'My Computer', choose 'Properties'.
- On the 'Advanced' tab (bottom-right of the tab-strip, on mine) at the bottom, hit the 'Environment Variables' button.
- In the 'User Variables for <Name>' section at the top, hit 'New...', type 'RENPY_DISABLE_FULLSCREEN' (no quotes) into the 'Variable name' field and 'true' (again, no quotes) into the 'Variable value' field.
- Hit 'OK' until you've closed everything you just opened.

DOS/Command Prompt/Batch file

- type "set RENPY_DISABLE_FULLSCREEN=true" (no spaces around the 'equals', no quotes)





Note that if you do it one of the first two ways, the variable will stay until you go back there and remove it again; if you do it the command-prompt way, it'll only last until you close that command-prompt session.

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omgosh thanks everyone. it works. peace =]