Might and Magic VIII Windowed Mode

Gartar · Post by **Gartar** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:47 am

Greetings, I just started playing Might and Magic VIII, and I have been looking around and can't seem to find any information on if you can run the game in windowed mode since when I alt tab I cannot alt tab back in to the game since it just gives me a grey screen then boots me out of the game. So is it possible to run it windowed and if so how would you do it? I have the Gog version if that matters.

DaveO · Post by **DaveO** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:21 am

Set your color settings to 16 bit, launch the MM8 configuration utility, and it should let you run the game windowed.

Gartar · Post by **Gartar** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 11:30 am

Thanks, that worked, but it seems to not be possible to scale the window, so it is unreadabliy small:/

Bluestorm · Post by **Bluestorm** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 3:50 pm

i had the same problem and i found it was my graphic card that the game found
i just turned it off set it to the soft ware setting and it works in windows and full screen modes with alt-tab working

GawainBS · Post by **GawainBS** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:34 am

I'm playing it fullscreen, with my monitor set to auto-detect the resolution/widescreen ratio. It allows me to alt-tab without problems. I do think I have the original one, though, not the GoG one. Still, worth a try, I think.

Gartar · Post by **Gartar** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:28 am

Bluestorm wrote:i had the same problem and i found it was my graphic card that the game found
i just turned it off set it to the soft ware setting and it works in windows and full screen modes with alt-tab working

That worked great, thanks allot!