> I'm using a PB 1400c witha 233 mHz G3 Vimage processer in it. I just bought this > game for it, since I't s a favoite game form me on my PC, and i wanted to be able to > play it on the notebook while on the road. Here's the deal: Everything about the > requirements suggests that I should be able to run the game, however, when I try to > load the game it tells me that the drawsprocket is unable to switch to 640x480 > resolution, and to check whether my computer does, in fact match the requirements. > Any help would be appreciated in getting this to work for me, after all, it is a > cool game. thanks,
Okay, I've been giving this *way* too much thought, but here goes... (sorry to spam the list, but thought it might be useful to someone, somewhere searching the archives later. It's not a bad game!) So the issue seems to me to be one of two things. Either for the initial boot, ctp is trying to start in 640x480 as a sort of "safe screen res" or the intro movies are in 640x480 and can't display on your screen. I'm hopeful it's the former, and have a hard time believing QuickTime would need any help from DrawSprocket to get a movie on the screen. In either event, the deal is, I bet, as has already been guessed, that the 1400 *only* does 800x600, so anything that requires 640x480 (or at least anything that *can't* do 800x600, no matter what else it can do) is out of luck. I'm a little surprised that made it out of testing, but then they probably weren't testing on "Frankenstein Macs" like my StarMax or this 1400. So my first guess is to go to the userprofile.txt file in the ctp_program/ctp folder and see what's in these lines: TryWindowsResolution=No ScreenResWidth=1152 ScreenResHeight=864 Try forcing width and height to 800x600 and see what happens. Note that if you double-click this profile file, it'll open in ctp. Try BBEdit Lite or some other "real" text editor -- not SimpleText. Often when someone ports a game, they don't change the line endings to Mac line endings in the prefs files from the PC version, so you'll need to ensure that you don't swap file formats -- sometimes the code will expect 0d 0a instead of just 0d (iirc), and changing one to another fooks everything. There are a couple of other settings you might try fooling with: HiResMovies=Yes FullScreenMovies=Yes Might set those to No, probably starting with "FullScreenMovies". I'm suspicious those won't do anything for you, but worth a shot. Oh yeah, and make a backup of userprofile.txt first. ;^) Good luck. Let me know if that doesn't happen for you. I don't have enough space on my 1400 to install ctp atm, I'm afraid, but if you don't get a break-through, I might finally reformat the 10 gig hd I've been saving for it. Ruffin Bailey -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
