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I've tried entering '-window' and '-w' and '-windowed' in the command line option, but it's not working.

Failing that, how do I get the fullscreen resolution to 'fill' the screen? Since I can't play it on anything higher than 800x600, i'd rather not play it in a tiny box with a fat black border.
Post edited September 22, 2013 by predcon
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Just press alt-enter to switch to windowed mode when you are in-game.
If that worked, I wouldn't have posted this as an issue.
I've tried something for Shogo which has been posted on its forum, and given Blood 2 is built with the same engine, it should do:

add "+windowed 1" in the command line field (under "Advanced", from the Launcher), and check "always specify these commands". Re-launch everything if needed. Shogo doesn't work well in a window for me, but the command works anyway.

As to the fullscreen issue, your graphic card may be applying a scaling option. I can't be specific about the menus here (French language for me), but you should find a display/scaling option somewhere in your driver. You should get the choice between three parameters (unscaled, scaled and keeping aspect, and 100% scaled, which indeed produces tiny displays in low resolutions). If you are running the game on an Intel HD card, it may not have an option as such if you don't change the desktop resolution - but there is a shortcut, search for it in the driver (options section??). It should change the scaling or allow to change it once the game is launched. Beware though, I've seen games not liking this process, restart them to clear any bug and you should be OK.
Post edited October 29, 2013 by Darucas
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Darucas: I've tried something for Shogo which has been posted on its forum, and given Blood 2 is built with the same engine, it should do:

add "+windowed 1" in the command line field (under "Advanced", from the Launcher), and check "always specify these commands". Re-launch everything if needed. Shogo doesn't work well in a window for me, but the command works anyway.

As to the fullscreen issue, your graphic card may be applying a scaling option. I can't be specific about the menus here (French language for me), but you should find a display/scaling option somewhere in your driver. You should get the choice between three parameters (unscaled, scaled and keeping aspect, and 100% scaled, which indeed produces tiny displays in low resolutions). If you are running the game on an Intel HD card, it may not have an option as such if you don't change the desktop resolution - but there is a shortcut, search for it in the driver (options section??). It should change the scaling or allow to change it once the game is launched. Beware though, I've seen games not liking this process, restart them to clear any bug and you should be OK.
The scaling issues I fixed, except for the menus (which is normal), but the game gives me a numbered error message "Unable to set video mode" when using that command line.
I've just tried and I get the same error too. Plus, both Blood 2 and Shogo refuse to recognize a "DirectX 6 driver" afterwards, even in fullscreen (I reinstalled both to solve this, deleting command line wasn't enough). Well, too bad, having those games easily windowed would be great, and solve lag under Windows 8.1 I think... The only other two options I can think of for window mode are trying with D3D Windower or DxWnd (both free softwares), but last time I checked there was always something going wrong, it may work on another PC though.
It's not a life or death issue, but now I'm keen to see a solution just because I'm stumped.
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predcon: It's not a life or death issue, but now I'm keen to see a solution just because I'm stumped.
Solution:

Use DXWnd. but not blood2.exe, instead use client.exe

C:\games\Blood2\Client.exe -rez blood2.rez -rez blood2nm.rez -rez sound.rez