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[opsneakie]

Basically, just what the title says. I can run Dwarf Fortress fine in fullscreen mode, after some fiddling with the init file, but when I hit f11 to start it up in windowed mode, the window stays black and doesn't draw anything, although the game continues to run. My graphics card drivers are all up to date, I'm not running any mods, using a fresh download with a couple of init options changed is all.

Search didn't turn up much, neither did scanning the first 10 pages or so. Thoughts, anyone?

- opsneakie

Edit: RESOLVED. Run in compatability mode for Windows XP SP3 and run the aero transparency troubleshooter, and everything is dandy.

[Footkerchief]

Does it work if it starts in windowed mode, rather than switching to windowed after it starts in fullscreen?

Also, have you tried tweaking the PRINT_MODE in init?

[opsneakie]

It does not work if started in windowed mode, regardless of whether it's WINDOWED: YES or WINDOWED: PROMPT

I've tried every kind of printmode, with various numbers for partial. It's set to frame buffer right now

[PRINT_MODE:FRAME_BUFFER]
[SINGLE_BUFFER:NO]

Partial print was causing some screen tearing, and frame buffer seemed to make it go away, so I was sticking with that. I'll try some more print modes and post back if any of them work. - tested them out quick, no luck.

-opsneakie

[Footkerchief]

Yeah, I wasn't really expecting those to work.  Incidentally, is your copy of Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit?

[opsneakie]

64-bit. Thanks for the timely replies. I'm happy to play it in fullscreen for the time being, but I would really like to be able to get it running in windowed so I could read the wiki and such while I play.

[Footkerchief]

I would really like to be able to get it running in windowed so I could read the wiki and such while I play.

I hear that.

Someone else reported similar problems on Vista 64 but I'm not sure whether there's a meaningful comment element here... what video card do you have?

[opsneakie]

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

It's a macbook pro, if that makes any difference that you know of.

EDIT: I tried running 40d, just to see if anything would be different. It still wasn't drawing anything in windowed mode. I figure more information is helpful.

[Shaostoul]

Posting you ini settings may give better insight to the problem.

[Footkerchief]

Baughn recommends that you try using Compatibility Mode.

Relyk discovered that his/her similar crash was caused by the Vista theme, so maybe the Windows Classic theme was what Baughn meant by "classic mode."  Anyway, give it a try.

[opsneakie]

Got it fixed, running in a window now without any problems. To anyone else having this problem, here's the fix:

Run DF in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP3 and then run the aero transparency troubleshooting thing (in your control panels). Fixed everything for me, although strangely enough it turned the transparency back ON.

Thanks for the help everyone.

-opsneakie