Stuck at starting screen

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Recently I tried switching to windowed mode since I always have to tab out to various other things while playing.

Tonight I felt like playing a quick game but when I start ToA, it does open up in windowed mode (I even see the application bar up top where I can minimize/exit)
Unfortunately that is all I can do.
I cannot interact with the game at all.
Can't go into options to change it back.
Can't start a game, its like the game isn't registering that it's playing.

Of course, I can't offer a bug report as the game isn't crashing either.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Did you wait for a while to see if it would load/wake up?

Did you ever get windowed mode to work before?

What are your system specs?

You can change the display settings in the config file, but I don't recall off the top of my head where it is at. If I get time later, I'll look it up if no one beats me to it.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ive left the game open since. So about 10-15 mins?
No changes. The music plays when Im tabbed into it, still cant interact.

Im on windows XP
Intel Coreduo 2 6600
Nvidia Gforce 8800GTX
2G Ram.

Not sure what else is relevant.

I honestly cant say Ive tried with ToA before. But for DL and DA it works perfectly even now.
Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You can manually change the settings by editing the file at

...\My Documents\My Games\GC2TwilightArnor\Prefs.ini

There are three lines that interest you.

DisplayWidth=xxxx
DisplayHeight=xxxx
FullScreen=0 // Change to 1 if you want it fullscreen.


Not sure why only TA would give you trouble unless there is something else amiss in its prefs.ini file. Did you try using 'end task' on it and trying to start it again? Same result?
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thank you.
Changing back to Fullscreen fixed the problem.

I think what caused the problem was me switching to windowed mode. And after closing the game a few days ago. I decided to change my screen resolution.

So my screen is now at 1280x1024 (Previously 1600x1200)
While ToA was still at 1600x1200 windowed mode.

And I was able to open/close ToA as I wanted. I had that bar up top of the game where you can minimise/maximise/close any normal windowed programs show up.

I will try to put it back on windowed mode with the changed resolution to see if I still get the problem.