Fullscreen mode error

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Aarnii
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Fullscreen mode error

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Hello,

I just bought the game but unfortunately I am having the same issue when going fullscreen and cannot play at all. The game launched actually once, then I changed the setup to Fullscreen, and from then on, it is impossible for me to start the game.
I am having the following message: "Error creating Direct Draw front surface! (DDERR_INVALIDPARAMS)".
I tried almost all compatible modes (Win 98 to Win 2000), neither works.

Any suggestion?
Many thanks
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Re: Fullscreen mode error

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You may try the following solution:

In your My Documents folder, you can find "My Games" folder and "Capitalism Lab" subfolder, please delete the file CONFIG.DAT, and see if it will resolve the problem.
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Re: Fullscreen mode error

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Hello David,

thank you for your response.
I have deleted the config.dat file and now can launch the game but only in window mode. If I try to go full screen, it crashes and I have the error message above.

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Re: Fullscreen mode error

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Hello,

so anything I can do about that? I still can't play in fullscreen and this is quite annoying to play in Window mode.

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Re: Fullscreen mode error

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I would suggest that you reinstall DirectX from Microsoft web site and see if it will resolve the problem.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downloa ... g=en&id=35


If the above does not work, you may try updating your nVidia graphics card driver as well.

You may download the latest nVidia graphics card driver from:
http://www.nvidia.com/Download
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Thank you, will try that.
I have a dxdiag in case you need one to investigate. But anyway will try reinstall the drivers and DirectX.
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Re: Fullscreen mode error

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Hi,

I could not reinstall DirectX since I am on Win 7 and that is not possible to uninstall it.
However, I have install different drivers for my graphic cards, and indeed, I can go fullscreen now. However, I don't have all the resolution available only 1024 x 768 and 1280 x 1024, not sure why. My base resolution is 1920 x 1080 so it should work fine.
Any idea why all resolutions are not available?

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