The FFED3D Thread
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Having minor problems
New poster here. I'm 14 years old and just discovered this forum and game. It looks really cool and I can't wait to play it, but I am having some problems that I hope you can help with. The game loads and runs just fine with one exception - the mouse. I see and can use the pointer, but I can't use the mouse to steer my ship. It won't rotate my ship up/down or left/right. Is this mouse even used for this or is this done on the keyboard.
Also, I guess the game is using the resolution I've set for Windows (1920 x 1200). It displays fine, but the ingame messages are cut off near the bottom, so I can't read the entire message. If I set Windows to a lower resolution, will I be able to see the entire message? Thanks
New poster here. I'm 14 years old and just discovered this forum and game. It looks really cool and I can't wait to play it, but I am having some problems that I hope you can help with. The game loads and runs just fine with one exception - the mouse. I see and can use the pointer, but I can't use the mouse to steer my ship. It won't rotate my ship up/down or left/right. Is this mouse even used for this or is this done on the keyboard.
Also, I guess the game is using the resolution I've set for Windows (1920 x 1200). It displays fine, but the ingame messages are cut off near the bottom, so I can't read the entire message. If I set Windows to a lower resolution, will I be able to see the entire message? Thanks
It sounds like your mouse is working fine. Are you remembering to hold down the right mouse button when moving the mouse to steer your ship?
No, changing the resolution won't fix that, but you can use PageUp & PageDown on your keyboard to scroll the messages.
There seems to be an issue with FFE D3D where some resolutions cause the panel icons to disappear and other settings don't work at all.
Assuming it's not graphics card or display related the best thing to do is experiment with various resolutions until you find one that works. I know that 1280 x 1024 does, because that's what I run the game at. I've heard that there are higher settings which work as well but I don't know what they are.
Good luck
Cheers Steve, Did just that, finally managed to get 1600x1200 on a 37" lcd. Bit of a difference from a 640x480 13" CRT.
And welcome to the Forum Pappie, Dont worry I still ask questions asfter playing the game for years & years & years......
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how are you getting 1600x1200 on a 37"LCD, what pannel do you have?
my sammy 40" wont display over 1920x1080 and even then the icons dont work
I have to use the same res as Steve and its not widescreen (because that seems to really mess things up)
I really don't know!
Its not full screen, probably about 9/10ths horizontal the screen and the same vertical. So I assume It's scaling it somehow. Tried 1920x1080 but all I got was a black screen and a small bar of graphices across the bottom. I've got a Sharp 37" 1080P screen. Would love to have it totally full screen, so Ill keep tweaking the ffewin.cfg file and see what happens.
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Hi to all.
I d like to make a question concerning the two ports for FFE.
Is the new russian mod playable? wich are the supposed bugs? Is it nowadays better to begin a game on glffe or in the new mod?
Thanks in advance!!!!
I d like to make a question concerning the two ports for FFE.
Is the new russian mod playable? wich are the supposed bugs? Is it nowadays better to begin a game on glffe or in the new mod?
Thanks in advance!!!!
Welcome to the forum Gudadantza!
The Russian mod (FFE D3D) is definitely playable, in fact I've been using it exclusively for a while now and haven't found any major bugs. There are a few areas which look a bit unfinished but I don't think it matters which version you begin a game in.
Anyway, the savegame files are compatible with each other, so if a bug does appear in D3D you can always load your Commander into glFFE
Welcome to the forum Gudadantza!
The Russian mod (FFE D3D) is definitely playable, in fact I've been using it exclusively for a while now and haven't found any major bugs. There are a few areas which look a bit unfinished but I don't think it matters which version you begin a game in.
Anyway, the savegame files are compatible with each other, so if a bug does appear in D3D you can always load your Commander into glFFE
Thanks for the response.
It is great. Then I ve seen professional game betas in a worse playable state than this one...
If this horse goes serious I see a nearfuture of graphical improvements and new missions etc...
One more thing...about the videos. It seems that like in glffe the videos are not supported, only its voices. I think it is a legacy problem with the high resolutions, but my question is if these guys are going to fix this in a future.
Goodbye to X3 Reunion and its claustrophobic sector boxes, picture backgrounds and ridiculous sense of flying...!
And sorry for my english.
Greetings!!
HI Gudadantza, welcome to the forum.
Yes unfortunatly you only get the voices at the moment, but hopefully those clever Russians may do something about that sometime.
And don't worry about the English. I'm english and My spelling and grammar's awful
You mean I should set resolution 1280x1024 and full screen or 1280x1024 window?
Merli
I suppose both but i ve just installed the game and i run it on full screen. It works. I have not tried in windowed, sorry.
Greetings!!
I found out ... my notebook has only 1440x900 resolution :-( No way to fix icons?
Do you mean you can run 1440x900 and nothing else? In that case I think you're going to have to run it windowed or wait for a possible future fix from Dreamzzz
I can run it 1280x1024 in window .... but window is too big to fit in screen ... OK I am waiting
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I'm really into this game now. It's pretty cool and I understand why you guys are such huge fans. I finally got rid of my Saker and am now the proud owner of a tricked out Cobra MkIII. However, in viewing some screenshots from other web sites, it looks like there are different bitmaps used for the cabins and cargo areas for different ships. My game doesn't do that. I'm stuck with the same cabin and cargo .bmps no matter what ship I buy. Is it because this version of the game hasn't evolved to that point yet or did I somehow install it wrong? Thanks
I'm really into this game now. It's pretty cool and I understand why you guys are such huge fans. I finally got rid of my Saker and am now the proud owner of a tricked out Cobra MkIII. However, in viewing some screenshots from other web sites, it looks like there are different bitmaps used for the cabins and cargo areas for different ships. My game doesn't do that. I'm stuck with the same cabin and cargo .bmps no matter what ship I buy. Is it because this version of the game hasn't evolved to that point yet or did I somehow install it wrong? Thanks
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