Windowed Mode Not Working?
Simsane:
I would like to learn to use Fraps for taking screen shots while in the game. I know that I must put the game into windowed mode in order to do so. These are the steps I used to put it into windowed mode:
Closed the game.
Right-clicked on the icon on my desktop and chose Properties.
The target line was already highlighted so I just hit End on my keyboard to move my cursor to the end of the line.
Hit the spacebar once.
Typed -w
Clicked on Apply
Clicked on Ok to close the Properties box.
Double-clicked on the icon to start the game, but it was still in full screen mode.
Exited the game and restarted my computer -- thinking that maybe it required a restart to take effect. Tried again after it finished starting up and it was still in fullscreen mode.
I have:
The Sims 2
University
Nightlife
OFB
Seasons
and
Family Fun
GL
Celebrations
If you need my computer specs to help, I will list them also. I never minded playing in full screen mode but need it to be in windowed mode to be able to use Fraps. Any help you can give will be very much appreciated.
Oh, I almost forgot to add that I am using clean templates along with the necessary hacks and that's all working correctly. When I start a "fresh" game with the hacks installed and then check in SimPE to see how many character files are in each neighborhood, only the necessary NPC characters show up as long as I haven't made any townies yet. If I attach a Downtown to a neighborhood, then SimPE reports the above mentioned NPC's along with some character files which are ghosts because I used the Downtown template that already had some ghosts in it.
I don't know if using the clean templates instead of just the normal game that loads when you install the game would make any difference in whether or not it will play in windowed mode. I can't see why it would, but I thought I would add that information just in case. ???
Cupcake:
I believe that taking out the space in between the target and "-w" might help some.
Mine looks like this :
"C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 Apartment Life\TSBin\Sims2EP8.exe" -w
without a space, so you might want to give that a try?
Simsane:
Thanks, I'll try it. I put the space there because of the instructions I found here:
http://www.sims2wiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Windowed_Mode
But as I said, I will try it without the space to see if that works. :)
**nvm -- I will just use Numenor's AGS in windowed mode. I just checked to make sure that works and it does, so that will do for my purposes.
Rhayden:
Make sure your shortcut points to Sims2EP8.exe or whatever and not the launcher.
Simsane:
Quote from: Rhayden on 2009 May 03, 22:39:42
Make sure your shortcut points to Sims2EP8.exe or whatever and not the launcher.
Good advice, so thank you. If I ever install BV or higher I'll keep that in mind. :)
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