Gal Civ 2 on a netbook (MSI wind)

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OK, I recently picked up an MSI wind (well, the cheaper but identical Advent 4211 really, but that's not important). Since I had four hour train journey to Edinburgh over the weekend (via Carlyle from Newcastle) I thought I should install something to keep me occupied. Gal Civ 2 was the obvious choice, and it runs beautifully (after a little tweak to the config file). Graphic are fine, game speed great and it's engrossing enough to help me forget National Express's terrible service...

 

...however, I have run into a bit of a problem with the resolution. Since the Wind only supports 1024x600, I can't actually run the game in it's minimum res. The congifuration tweak was very helpful in this, making it quite playable, but I still have a problem with certain windows being too big for the screen, meaning I can't click the button to close them. The uprgrade window and the ethics window are two examples of this.

I'm aware it's a little cheeky asking for help since I'm techinically trying to run it below spec, but any ideas anyone? Ideally a work around, but alternatively a keyboard shortcut to let me confirm or close these windows.

 

Cheers,

 

Ed

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

There's not really an easy solution aside from running at 1024x768 with panning, or similar. Otherwise, the entire interface would need to be redone and/or rescaled, but we have no plans to do that and I haven't seen any modding on that front either.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

running the game in a window perhaps ? with a 1024x768 (or higher) panned desktop ????

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