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Posted November 05, 2015
I recently purchased the Star Wars: Empire at War Gold pack so I can play it between calls at work and would like to know how I can play it in a windowed mode so that I can easily navigate between the game and work. I have tried to use ALT+Enter as well as F4 and nothing happened when I pressed those buttons. How would I do this? Please, no internet jargin. I will not be able to understand it. Please just let me know, step by step, how to play the game in a windowed mode.
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Posted November 05, 2015
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ehossner740: I recently purchased the Star Wars: Empire at War Gold pack so I can play it between calls at work and would like to know how I can play it in a windowed mode so that I can easily navigate between the game and work. I have tried to use ALT+Enter as well as F4 and nothing happened when I pressed those buttons. How would I do this? Please, no internet jargin. I will not be able to understand it. Please just let me know, step by step, how to play the game in a windowed mode.
What about this?
Posted November 05, 2015
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ehossner740: I recently purchased the Star Wars: Empire at War Gold pack so I can play it between calls at work and would like to know how I can play it in a windowed mode so that I can easily navigate between the game and work. I have tried to use ALT+Enter as well as F4 and nothing happened when I pressed those buttons. How would I do this? Please, no internet jargin. I will not be able to understand it. Please just let me know, step by step, how to play the game in a windowed mode.
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Smannesman: What about this?
That would be fine if I bought it on Steam. But I bought it on gog.
Posted November 05, 2015
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ehossner740: That would be fine if I bought it on Steam. But I bought it on gog.
Edit the properties of the GOG shortcut for the game and add the Windowed parameters indicated in the forum post to the end of the Target field.
Posted November 05, 2015
Go to folder with installed game, right click on Launch Star Wars - Empire At War, properties and add -windowed in the Target field.

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hold on, something went wrong with galaxy ; ))
k, the problem was on my side, everything works fine ; )
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Posted November 05, 2015
Are you using Galaxy?

If it's not Galaxy, then right click on the shortcut and in Target add "-windowed" to the end of it.
Posted November 05, 2015
Ah, the good old days of boss keys, ie shortcuts that shrink things if your boss comes round. There is software out there:
http://www.mindgems.com/products/Boss-Key/boss-key.htm
Never used it myself.
Posted November 05, 2015
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ZFR: Are you using Galaxy?

If it's not Galaxy, then right click on the shortcut and in Target add "-windowed" to the end of it.
Well, I don't know what Galaxy means. But when I try to add -windowed to the end of the target field, a message pops up saying that I will need administrator permission to make that change.
Posted November 05, 2015
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ehossner740: Well, I don't know what Galaxy means. But when I try to add -windowed to the end of the target field, a message pops up saying that I will need administrator permission to make that change.
Can't you just click continue to allow it to make the change? GOG installers create shortcuts as admin which is why it warns you about that.

If you can't, just make a copy of the shortcut, then change that one.
Posted November 05, 2015
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ehossner740: That would be fine if I bought it on Steam. But I bought it on gog.
Seriously dude, it's just some command line parameters that you add to your shortcut.
Same game, same parameters.
All you have to do is add them to your shortcut instead of to the Steam entry.
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