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Gents, Can someone out there help me....I have windows 7 64 bit, home edition...My old harddrive is added to this computer so that had all my games files on it....only problem I have now is in the graphics....the views are either too large or too small...I changed from 100 to 125 to 150 and at the same time I changed the pixels...could not get anything close to the way the game looked on XP....my 2d normal view is too small and the 2d zoom out I way too tiny...is there a setting I should be at....or a download or something to help me out here.......thanks guys

Gen John Dragan AoA

I did essentially the same thing with my game HD when I got my new computer a few months ago. I have the same operating system, but went from an ATI card to a top NVIDIA card.

I found no difference in the way the games are displayed. There are problems with NVIDIA based cards, as the games show a white-out quite often.

Otherwise, I found no difference.

HOWEVER, you might need to change the way your game are loaded from the OLD typical method of the HPS games and move them all from the x:/PROGRAMS/HPS/campaign antietam, ETC to something like a GAMES folder, so your games would look like x:/games/campaign antietam; x:/games/campaign franklin, etc.

Also, check out HPSSIMS.COM for there info on using the games in VISTA/WIN7.

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General Ernie Sands
President ACWGC -Sept 2015- Dec 2020
7th Brigade, 1st Division, XVI Corps, AoT
ACWGC Records Site Admin

"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there."

If you are installing Win 7 on a machine that was running XP and not changing the hardware, you should get exactly the same display resolution that you had before. The display size is more a funciton of your monitor and video card than OS.

However, you might not have been using your video at standard settings in which case you will see a change. To be able to tell would require more information but here are some things to look at:

Monitor resolution and type of monitor - unless you have a old tube type monitor you probably have an LCD or LED type monitor. These should always be set to their highest resolution and Win 7 will default to this setting if the monitor supports auto identification. This is the most likely cause of a change in display. You may have had XP configured to use a lower resolution so everything looked bigger on the screen. Us old people with bad eyesight sometimes do this.

Ease of Use - This is a Control Panel catagory that under XP had a different name. It allow you to change a number of display settings to make the computer handicap accessible.

Personailization - Another Control Panel catagory that XP called something else. It allows you to change display settings as well including resolution.

Compatibility Mode - This is a file property on the game's executable. It can swithc the mode the game runs in but I don't know how much affect it will have.

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General Kennon Whitehead
Chatham Grays
AoT II/1/3 (CSA)