EHM Won't go into Windowed Mode

[shooter_80]

How new is your laptop? I didn't think the game would run on most of the newer laptops because of the aspect ratio. All of the new ones seem to be widescreen and the game doesn't fit that way.

brand spankin new

[bruins72]

Actually, I meant Tasku's laptop. I should have quoted his post. I figured yours was new because it was running Win7. His being a Vista machine means he might have gotten it before they started making all the laptops widescreen.

[joehelmer]

My laptop has the resolution of 1280*800, which I've read is widescreen ( ) and EHM works fine for me, both in full screen mode and windowed mode.

The code that I posted on last page works fine for me, but here's another one that should work:

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"C:\Program Files\Games\NHL Eastside Hockey Manager 2007\ehm2007.exe" -small_screen -windowed

Found it in this thread: http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/vi ... php?t=3586

[shooter_80]

My laptop has the resolution of 1280*800, which I've read is widescreen ( ) and EHM works fine for me, both in full screen mode and windowed mode.

The code that I posted on last page works fine for me, but here's another one that should work:

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"C:\Program Files\Games\NHL Eastside Hockey Manager 2007\ehm2007.exe" -small_screen -windowed

Found it in this thread: http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/vi ... php?t=3586

Thats the "shortcut" I've used in the past but it wont work on Win7. (I am also using EHM 2005 but that shouldnt matter)

[archibalduk]

Have you tried running the game in XP compatibility mode?

[siddious]

having the same issue. tried everything thats been posted so far and nothing

[JimH]

I found a solution!!

I stumbled upon this site that has a solution that worked for me, using an Acer Aspire netbook with Windows 7:

HERE

It does require you to make a change to your registry, so not everyone will be comfortable doing it, but it worked for me. It makes the screen a little squished, but it works. There are a couple other tools mentioned in the article that MAY work for people who don't want to mess with their registry.

Good luck!

[geckon]

Sorry for opening such an old topic but I found a possible solution for this (after a long time this was bothering me).

Disclaimer:
I don't play the game in Windows but in Linux using Wine. This solution is only useful for:
- Linux and Wine users like me
- Windows users who are able to do the same as I do in Linux (it may be possible but not being a Windows user myself I don't know how to do that - but someone else may know)

Steps to solve the issue on Linux:

1) scale your display to fake a bigger resolution by this command: xrandr --output LVDS-0 --scale 1x1.1
2) run the EHM
3) scale your display back to your resolution by this command: xrandr --output LVDS-0 --scale 1x1

NOTES:
- The "LVDS-0" is your output (how your display is connected). On laptop it will very probably be "LVDS-0" or "LVDS", you can also see e.g. "VGA-0", "HDMI-0" etc for external displays
- The "1x1.1" says that you want to have the same width and 1.1-times your height. You may need to adjust these values if your display resolution is different from mine or you have different panels on your screen etc. E.g. for the same width and 150% height you would use 1x1.5 - I hope you see the pattern.
- After you run EHM and set the display back, EHM should keep running (at least it doesn't crash on my laptop) and you should be able to play it. It will probably not fit your screen well (that's the original problem). You can deal with it by:
- moving the window so only some not needed part of it is not visible (out of the screen)
- switching the game to fullscreen mode that should work even on smaller screens
- omit the third step and play the game on the scaled screen - this has the disadvantage that everything will probably be blurred a little

I hope this helps to someone, I'm personally happy I found this solution