MrVulcan
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Every so often someone with programming skills far greater than anything I can conjure with gets an inspiration to make Armada work with modern setups. There was some discussion over on Fleet ops forums on the exact methods and reasons on how to make Armada load correctly on Windows 10, and Elisha Riedlinger packaged up the solution (maybe unrelated to the said discussion) over at GitHub. After giving this a try, the solution appears to work quite elegantly, without any side effects or glitches.
Few things to try beyond the usual.
- update nvidia or amd drivers. Resolves some graphics distortion issues
- install in non-system directory or remember to allow admin mode
- to use the map editor, use the 1.3 path method to enter edit mode: press enter, type 'edit', enter again. Then use the regular map editor controls.
- If you'really unable to change game resolution via options, try changing after starting an instant action game. If that fails, look for Armada.prf file in the install directory and edit with notepad. You will find a line that shows your last set resolution.Change to match your native screen resolution.
- on multimonitor setups, allow extra long for the game to start. May flicker wildly until it finds the correct display modes.
Hope this helps someone in getting Armada up and running again.
Mr. V
Few things to try beyond the usual.
- update nvidia or amd drivers. Resolves some graphics distortion issues
- install in non-system directory or remember to allow admin mode
- to use the map editor, use the 1.3 path method to enter edit mode: press enter, type 'edit', enter again. Then use the regular map editor controls.
- If you'really unable to change game resolution via options, try changing after starting an instant action game. If that fails, look for Armada.prf file in the install directory and edit with notepad. You will find a line that shows your last set resolution.Change to match your native screen resolution.
- on multimonitor setups, allow extra long for the game to start. May flicker wildly until it finds the correct display modes.
Hope this helps someone in getting Armada up and running again.
Mr. V