Video Mode

Jekate · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:19 am

I have a very old game that you need to run in 640 x 480 - 256 colours. So every time I want to play it I have to go to the properties and change it. Now my little brother is the one that always plays it and he doesn't know how to change the video mode, so I was thinking of creating a turing .exe file that he could click on, and it would change to the mode needed to run, and then run the game. Is this possible, and if so how can it be done?

Tony · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:33 am

that's Windows API and can't be accessed through Turing. Visual Basic would be your best bet actually Thinking

Jekate · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:08 pm

Ok. Does anyone know if there is a command prompt command to change resolution?

Andy · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:52 pm

right click the exe, select compatibility then check the run in 256 colors box

iker · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:20 pm

Andy wrote:

right click the exe, select compatibility then check the run in 256 colors box

That would probably be best, you don't have to worry about changing to and from the video mode ether.

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