No city names?

[Nosferatu]

One Century of Warfare question: no matter what I select in the View - placenames option, I never get to see the names of places. The display normally when I create a TGA file from the editor.

Now, I've played TOAW 2 before TOAW-CW and I could easily activate place names with the above option, but in CW it just doesn't work!

I'm I insane or is it really impossible to display names? :confused:

[Ben Turner]

I believe this is a compatability problem with Windows XP... and is apparently avoidable. I'll be damned if I remember how.

[Nosferatu]

I believe this is a compatability problem with Windows XP... and is apparently avoidable. I'll be damned if I remember how.

Ha! I knew it.

TOAW 2 couldn't run at all under XP. I just knew CW had to have some problem under XP.

It wouldn't be fun it everything functioned as it should... :cheeky:

[Ben Turner]

It wouldn't be fun it everything functioned as it should... :cheeky:

Well I have XP and place names work. Have you tried the compatability settings?

[Nosferatu]

Not sure. I think I activated a Win '95 compatibility mode, but aren't home right now. I'll check on it and get back to you tommorow.

[Mantis]

You need to run it under Win 2000 compat mode, and your problems will be solved.

[Mantis]

(Right click on the file, go to properties, then click the compat tab - just in case you're not sure how you got to the proper place to set this option. :thumup: )

[nemo]

Also, be sure to have your TOAW CoW patched up to 1.04 as the latest patch specifically corrected this kind of trouble - from the readme file:


Version 1.04
[...]
A problem with place name text not appearing on the map under Windows® NT and Windows® 2000 has been corrected.

[Nosferatu]

Thanx, guys!

It works! ;)

Now I have to correct all the maps I made where I blacked out cities... dozens of them... :OHNO: