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[gabandre]

hello, im new to dwarf fortress and to the forums
i have a laptop computer and i cant configure DF to work
the first problem is graphical, i cant get the game window to fit in the screen and sometimes it is only on the upper half of the screen. this happened after i tryed changing the init.txt

this is my init:

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Change this to turn sound off.

[SOUND:ON]

The sound volume runs from 0 (off) to 255 (full).  You can set the volume from the ESC

options menu as well.

[VOLUME:255]

Change this to skip the wonderful intro movies.

[INTRO:ON]

This lets you set the starting windowed/fullscreen setting.  Can be YES, NO or PROMPT.

[WINDOWED:PROMPT]

This is the size and font for windowed mode.  Changing to 800x600 and the 800x600 font might

make you happier.

[WINDOWEDX:640]
[WINDOWEDY:300]
[FONT:curses_800x600.bmp]

Full screen info.

[FULLSCREENX:800]
[FULLSCREENY:600]
[FULLFONT:curses_800x600.bmp]

If this is set to YES, the tiles will not be stretched, but rather the game view will be

centralized, surrounded by black space.  Tiles that are too large will always be compressed

rather than running off the screen.

[BLACK_SPACE:NO]

Graphics info, most of it as above.  Set GRAPHICS to YES to turn it all on.  This will use

the "raw/graphics" folder for tile information.  Currently this is limited to whatever

creature graphics you have downloaded.  The game comes with a few pictures to demonstrate. 

As of November 2010, the Dwarf Fortress Wiki has custom tilesets available at

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Tileset_repository and creature graphics at

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Graphics_set_repository.

The legacy version only supports 24 bit BMP files, so any PNGs will have to be converted

first.

[GRAPHICS:YES]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDX:1280]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDY:400]
[GRAPHICS_FONT:curses_square_16x16.bmp]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENX:1280]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENY:800]
[GRAPHICS_FULLFONT:curses_square_16x16.bmp]
[GRAPHICS_BLACK_SPACE:YES]

This is the dimensions in tiles of the display grid.  Minimum x is 80.  Minimum y is 25. 

Maximums are 200.  Make sure the window size or full screen resolution matches the grid/tile

size if you don't want the display to be squashed or stretched.  The default windowed font

has tiles that are 8x12 pixels, for instance, so for a 80x25 grid, you use a 640x300 window,

and for a 125x50 grid, you'd use a 1000x600 window.  FULLGRID is used in full screen mode,

whether graphics is on or not.

[GRID:80:25]
[FULLGRID:80:25]

Change this to YES to only refresh portions of the screen that need to be refreshed.  This

can have a significant impact on frame rate, especially for people that have slow frame

rates on the title screen.  The number refers to how many frames it will redo a printed tile

before skipping it, so you might try increasing it a bit.  PARTIAL_PRINT only works on

certain systems, so you might have to disable it again if you notice your display isn't

working properly.  Fixes are being investigated.

[PARTIAL_PRINT:NO:2]

Change this to YES to keep the DF window on top of your other windows.

[TOPMOST:NO]

Change this to YES if you want to see an FPS counter at the top left.

[FPS:NO]

Use this to set the maximum frame rate during play.  The movies are always capped at 100.  A

frame in this case is not graphical but related to the movement speed of a creature.  A

healthy, unencumbered dwarven peasant takes one step every 10 frames.

[FPS_CAP:100]

Use this to set the maximum graphical frame refresh rate during play.

[G_FPS_CAP:50]

This sets the applications vertical synchronization behavior.  Changing this to ON can

impact your FPS if your G_FPS is high.  The other options are ON and DEFAULT.  DEFAULT uses

whatever settings you have your system at in general.

[VSYNC:OFF]

Change this to LINEAR if you want the texture values to be averaged over the adjacent

pixels.

[TEXTURE_PARAM:NEAREST]

Change this to make the dwarfort.exe process have a different priority.  From highest to

lowest, the options are REALTIME, HIGH, ABOVE_NORMAL, NORMAL, BELOW_NORMAL and IDLE.

[PRIORITY:NORMAL]

Change this to NO if you don't want to have the mouse involved at all.

[MOUSE:YES]

Change this to YES if you'd like to use a BMP for the mouse cursor.  The image currently

lags when the game is lagging however.

[MOUSE_PICTURE:NO]

This controls the number of milliseconds that must pass before a held key sends a repeat

press to the game.  You might need to adjust this.

[KEY_HOLD_MS:150]

This controls the number of milliseconds that must pass before input works again after the

view recenters on an event in dwarf mode.

[RECENTER_INTERFACE_SHUTDOWN_MS:0]

Change this to NO if you want to leave save uncompressed (you might want to do this if you

are experience save corruption).

[COMPRESSED_SAVES:YES]

the second problem is whit the keyboard as it doesnt have the numpad so the "+-*/" dont work so i cant use the custom embark or navigate the menus

[BigD145]

Yes, your laptop probably does have a numpad if you have a function button.

[WINDOWED:NO]   <--you may want to change the FULLSCREENX/Y to something larger

[gabandre]

and it doesnt run on fullscreen, it says: mode switch failed/running in windowed mode

[Bobinater]

I used to have the fullscreen mode problem myself with that exact same message but I sadly don't remember how I fixed it.

However as for your + and - problem the + and minus keys on the top right of your computer should work fine, however + is mapped on the same key as = so you have to hold shift first, this can get annoying so I recommend going to the key bindings in the Esc menu and changing 'move secondary curser up' from + to =.  If you have any other key troubles you can remap them in the key binding window. 

Also keep in mind that in the newest version .31.19 that it may already have all your embark points distributed I spent 15 minutes at the screen trying to give people points in skills and couldn't figure out why they wouldn't go up.