Resolution Issues

If you have found that TC2M is not displaying properly in the games native resolution, you can change it to your computers resolution by doing the following:


1. Open the TC2M.ini file.

2. Add the following if you don't have it, you should have an Initialization section:

[Initialization]

Full Screen=0
WinW=1024
WinH=768



3. Make sure that Full Screen is 0, this doesn't work well if it's not. Then set your desired width and height. I had it running at 1920x1200.



4. Now everything should look OK except for the compass. This we leave to the mod community. There are a couple of files that you need to look at to fix this from the SDK folder.

a. sprites.csv - 2nd line, compass, change the scale (column E), the higher the res the bigger this gets, so you'll need to scale it down

b. toolbar.csv - last line, compass, you'll need to fiddle with the loc x and loc y (columns C&D) to get the compass where you want it. These values really mean nothing. I had a very hard time getting the compass to show at all, it was mostly guess work. So just tweak them a little bit at a time until it's where you want. If it disappears, start over. (the original values are 101,72)

This is where it should be located:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Take Command - 2nd Manassas\

This is from my Win 7 box, but it should be similar for other versions.

I don't know about the issue you're having and I don't have TC2M installed, however, if I experienced this issue I'd start with this configuration...

Full Screen=1
;DbgLvl=1
;LoseFocus=1
;NoAI=1
;Alpha Omega=1
WinW=1024
WinH=768

...Then work my way up through the game's available resolution options, keeping Full Screen=1 enabled, to find the best resolution for my setup. Note that the beginning screens may be narrow, but then the ingame screen will be full screen or at least expanded. So you have to start a game with each resolution change to see the battlefield display, the primary resolution determiner.

richfed wrote: As far as I can figure, the game is unplayable. No matter the settings, mouse cursor gets lost under the map and options panel. I switched the first value back to "1" and the H & W to my maximum resolution. Battlefield view is good, but with no mouse, it is not good . I wonder, is there a way to play this in a window?

Have you tried a larger pointer option? Maybe it will translate into the game. Seems like I remember that TC2M had optional pointers, maybe there's a fix if it's a pointer issue due to large resolutions.