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Might and Magic VIII Windowed Mode

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:47 am
by Gartar
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.

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:21 am
by DaveO
Set your color settings to 16 bit, launch the MM8 configuration utility, and it should let you run the game windowed.

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 11:30 am
by Gartar
Thanks, that worked, but it seems to not be possible to scale the window, so it is unreadabliy small:/

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 3:50 pm
by Bluestorm
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

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:34 am
by GawainBS
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.

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:28 am
by Gartar
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!