No cursor

[Bylandt11]

When I start the game, there is no cursor visible. Whiwh makes it virtually impossible to fill in the serial code.

Any help is appreciated.

[doomtrader]

Does the game runs in full screen or windowed mode for you?

[Bylandt11]

Full screen.

Is there an option to run it in windowed mode?

[doomtrader]

yes, but after entering the serial number.
There is a workaround however.

Please go to My Documents/My Games/Strategic War in Europe and open Settings.ini file.
Then please find section [Main], set Fullscreen to false and set the ResolutionX and ResolutionY to values smaller than your native screen resolution.
Then run the game.

[Bylandt11]

I had actually already tried that. But the program didn't seem to "obey". It just started the game in full screen, regardless.

I have however somwehat solved the problem. With a lot of patience and blindly pointing and clicking I have managed to introduce the serial code. After that and with using the same slow process I was able to set the preferences to windowed from within the game.

I now have my cursor back and can play the game. I would prefer to run it in full screen (with no taskbar at the bottom), but it's better than nothing.

[Bylandt11]

However ... now I got a different problem.

When I ran the game in windowed mode it didn't fit the screen (on the right a large part of my desktop was showing). So I changed the resolution to something higher (1280 x 1024). But now the game has become too big: large parts on all sides are invisbile. I would experiment further with the resolution, but I can't: the button I need to click to apply the new settings is also invisible (I assume it is near the bottom of the screen. Is this correct?).

I tried changing my PC's resolution (normally 1920x1080) to different setting , but no luck: large parts of the game screen remain invisible.

So i'm pretty much stuck.

I think al these problems are related. I just need to run the game in full screen mode but WITH a cursor visible, is my guess. But I have no idea how to do that. There must also probably be a clue in the fact that changes in the settings.ini aren't actually applied when I start the game.

[doomtrader]

Can you send me your settings.ini file to doomtrader[at]wastelands-interactive.com.