Windowed in TC - How?

[chuck.umbreit]

How can I start TC in an XP Window? The "-windowed" option used with earlier versions does not seem to work. I am running a multi display system and want to be able to move TC Window over to the extension display which is a large screen HDTV.

 

[Wessex_Electric_Nutter]

How can I start TC in an XP Window? The "-windowed" option used with earlier versions does not seem to work. I am running a multi display system and want to be able to move TC Window over to the extension display which is a large screen HDTV.

did you forget to take out the "-fullscreen" switch? Also, try "-window"

 

[chuck.umbreit]

Did not help

No Neither of these suggestions helped.

 

[paulhobbs]

I only use TC and TRS2006 in windowed mode, so it certainly does work. I'd check the trainzoptions file again.

Paul

 

[Wessex_Electric_Nutter]

No Neither of these suggestions helped.

Is the screen resolution smaller than your desktop resolution? That means that if the resolution of the Trainz window is set to 1024x768 and your desktop is set to 1024x768, then it won't work. The trainz window, therefore, needs to be smaller (800x600)

 

[chuck.umbreit]

Thanks "Wessex Electric Nutter"!

That was it. All in needed to do was set the trainz window, smaller than my primary display full window.
Opens up a whole new set of issues, but at least this gives me the option of sliding the Trainz window over to the extended display.

The options file used by TC is "trainzclassicoptions.txt". Looking thru the new "Developer's Guide" for TC, Auran has chosen to only document a few options. "windowed" is not documented. The new guide seems much more consistent and complete than previous versions, but I am curious for their reasoning in not documenting all the options their developers use in development. Thanks again.

 

[pommie]

-windowed never has been documented, in fact it took quite a few attempts at putting in all sorts of commands before I found that one

Cheers David