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Darwinia - Failed to set screen mode
John Freeman:
Well today my friend gifted me a game on steam (No one ever gifts me something D:, so I couldn't say no to it :D). But it wont start up. I get an error when I start it up saying ;
Fatal Error
--- Quote ---Failed to set screen mode
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so I went to my steamapps to see what was wrong and I saw a .txt named, blackbox. It said
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DARWINIA BLACK BOX REPORT
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VERSION : win32-full-steam-1.5.10
ERROR : 'Failed to set screen mode'
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====== STACKTRACE =======
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retAddress = 0041C40A
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Help! I wont let $2.50 GO TO WASTE!
e-maxx:
what monitor resolution are you using?
John Freeman:
1028 X 768
e-maxx:
hmmm if you're using anything above XP then maybe try running it in capability mode
John Freeman:
--- Quote from: e-maxx on December 25, 2011, 06:13:38 PM ---hmmm if you're using anything above XP then maybe try running it in capability mode
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How do I do that?