MarkEAW

To make sure your career/campaign can be saved, make sure your using the wrapper profile I provide, here: https://eaw.neocities.org/files-my-downloads.html You need to have a wrapper that can cure the save bug that cropped up in windows 10 in Dec 2023. The DXWND wrapper has a patch that your able to select to ignorefilesaveerrors. Unfortunately with the GOG eaw.exe super version 1.2, the included gog wrapper was made before this bug cropped up. So you actually have to use the original MPS 1.2 game exe and wrapper it with DXWND to avoid the save bug.

The Pilot career and the over all campaign designed into EAW is most playable on v1.2. The EAWPRO has a set of files you can download extra, to give the v1.2 campaign while still using many of the effects and improvements in the FXEXE. https://www.mediafire.com/folder/l0g2lap23wi39/game-patch-fxexe That link is to get the EAWPRO patch and the extra Career Target and FMs Files for it.

Steam and Gog versions use s new external locally placed dll file. That supports the high Frames. Using a mod like AOE 2022 Edition will only deviate from that dll. (BTW where did you get the AOE mod? Don't forget the patch.) As indicated before, Windows Compatibility fixes (registry changes) can interfere with a wrapper, in this case its this glide wrapper. Some wrappers like the DxWnd Wrapper have the ability to ignore it with a setting, others you should clean out the reg of that setting, or rename the game exe will do it. (Just don't forget to always use the wrapper when running the renamed exe , as native mode running will re-add the reg entry). Then your back at the start. Also I already noted that the filenames can be changed for the game exe when run under a wrapper guidance. This shouldn't be done without being wrapped. (native mode). It's really nothing new, people have being getting 64FPS for months now with the DxWnd Wrapper. and like you said 60FPS at the res you specified.

Now that EAW is running well in the DxWnd wrapper, its has been quit here. :) Anyhow, anyone still having issues when EAW is run in the DxWnd wrapper (and that had DL my custom profile settings for that wrapper)?

I know this isn't where I usually post, but Stretching of the game screen is fixed with adjusting your video driver/monitor settings (like nvidia control panel) to keep the lower res from stretching the game window to the entire screen. I know this with EAW and running natively on Win10. Try to set scaling by your monitor if it has the ability by itself. If not have the GPU handle the scaling. Sorry I'm not much help, not much time right now. I do have extensive Troubleshoot help for scaling and stretching issues on my web site. (which is the EAW Help Site) https://eaw.neocities.org/troubleshoot.html Look for 'Stretched Game Screens' instructions on the above page.

Folks, how goes EAWPRO with the wrapper for you? Are you using the right version of the DxWnd wrapper with the profile i've provided? I found that the programmer rearranges somethings in the users interface sometimes, so so settings may change or be removed when importing into a different version of the wrapper that I used to export the settings.

Here's the newest of the profiles: https://eaw.neocities.org/files-my-downloads.html

Thanks! Its updates to Windows10 and to the DxWnd Wrapper that change, so far the versions I used of EAW stay the same. In one or two instances it was my personnel settings in Win10 that changed that effect the game, usually security stuff.

okay after hours and hours (last night and today) of EAW not working at 1024x768, I found the one setting to get it to work. I'll try to upload some new DxWnd profiles when I get a chance, for non windows-full screen settings. I'm trying to have one set of profiles but might have to have two separate downloads, depending on what a player would want. https://eaw.neocities.org/files-my-downloads.html That links for a few profiles for FULL Screen use with a eaw.ini res setting of 1024x768 in some of the EAW games. They should work with window mode too and lower res. In general, It was a limit resources tweak that use to be an option, but the programmer moved things around on his DxWnd option screens. So I didn't have a clue (for hours, whew) once I set the 4 initial settings to get good full screen and I didn't know why it didn't work.

I'm now having issues with the resolutions at and higher ; 1024x768 (eaw.ini). The full screen is all red during the launch into the flight screen. So DxWnd seems the issue and not EAW as lower res works in full screen and so did 1024x768 before. Not sure which version of DxWnd it started in, however. So v1.2 set at 800x600 in the eaw.ini can run at full screen.

I got the settings for Full Screen use. You turn off a few and turn on about 4 other settings. I documented it on my troubleshoot wrappers help doc on my site. look for the DxWnd wrapper, should be the first one presented. https://eaw.neocities.org/troubleshoot-wrappers.html Refresh the page to get the latest!!

Yeah, your right....from everything everyone tells me GOG is better to deal with there site/software than steam, just in general. I pretty sure the GOG/Steam installer for EAW from these sites won't run on WinXP, not sure about Vista. I can't remember though if you could find a way to open there installer without running it, if you had too. I also read about Steam overlay software (I guess its called something like that) won't work on older systems soon. Just like Wizard43 said. :)

GOG was first and the Steam was 2nd to get EAW. They are both the same game; A super patched v1.2. Both require a new ddraw.dll to be present....... Read my GOG Patches Help Document. (be sure to keep reading CombatACE EAW forum for more hints for GOG users). https://eaw.neocities.org/gog-patches.html

I did a few test, and it's really touchy to get full screen for both the menus and the flight screens at the 'same time'. But I managed to get one or the other working at full screen. I do need help in discovering exactly what's going on and why the full screen mode / settings are touchy. I do still prefer a game in the windows frame, however while using the frame you can upscale the resolution and make it 'appear' as the screen is full. I use a 4:3 ratio (square) res on mine. If anyone finds anything that works for full screen, let me know please! I'm only mainly concerned with getting the flight screen in full, as the menu screens are fine to view at actual size.

Remember once you import the DxWnd profiles I made, (which give 64 FPS in Direct3D/DX mode on Win10, the preferred method on my flight screens), you can modify the profile for full screen. If you need help with getting the profiles to open to full screen, let me know. I don't normally play at full unless I have a special reason too. But I am willing to help.