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Sorted....Set CS to full colour..same as Xp setup
CSX
"Nikos Chantziaras" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> CSX wrote:
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>> Hi
>> When i try and ALT/TAB my CS game into XP the screen is black
>> once I try coming back into CS
>> Any ideas....lready tried a load of different drivers
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> As the other guys reported, CS 1.6 uses the original half life engine. It
> means that you must run the game with a resolution that *does not exceed*
> your desktop resolution, and with the same color depth. This isn't a sure
> way to do alt-tabbing safely, but you can try. By the way, there's a
> command line option that forces the game to use 32bpp (it uses 16bpp by
> default), but I forgot what that option is. Might be "-depth 32" or "-bpp
> 32", not sure.
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