![]() If it's not self-explanatory for you, it should now be visible in "that area next to the Windows clock on task bar". Now run program back and have fun with PK2. If you close window now, program will ask youĥ. "Keep aspect ratio" is useful in window resizingĤ. "Modal style" probably doesn't allow you to click on Launcher window again. "Fix Parent Window" seems to make launcher's layout less. "Simulate 8/16BPP desktop" might be not important, but I still checked it since game uses (I think) 16bit depth. "Hook CHILD windows" - game screen is actually a child window of launcher, so it's better to check it anyway. "Fix Window Frame Style" is important if you want to move game, resize, minimize and maximize (turns border on, otherwise you have borderless window in the top-left corner of the screen). "Handle exceptions" might also help with some crashes, like with Minimize event. "Intercept Alt-F4 key" allows you to instantly kill game with Alt+F4. You may also check "Optimize CPU", might help with slower PC's somehow. That will also allow game to catch keys (probably) mouse movement even if minimized, but it's still better than having game quit by itself. Check "Do not notify on task switch" to prevent game to close in event of Alt+Tab or clicking elsewhere. You may turn Mouse lock with (left)Alt+F12 in game to lock and unlock cursor (to Maximize for example). "Intercept GDI Cursor clipping" seems to catch Mouse lock again if you Alt+Tab back to the game. "Force cursor clipping"+"Keep cursor within window" will make sure that you won't go with mouse somewhere you don't want to. Use "Hide Cursor" if you don't want cracked egg cursor appear. As I said, try checking everything because it seems harmless. ![]() It's the main reason of using this program so TURN IT ONĦ) Surface handling: You may check everything, but the most important one is probably "Suppress DX common errors" because without it, after minimize action, your game will hang. Without it your screen will get PK2 palette, and become laggy until you turn off the game. You can resize it for your needs later or now, it will get pixelated, but still better than 640x480 + black screen like in original.ĥ) Emulation: Primary Surface - most important setting. Do not turn on red one (DirectInput Hooking) or you will lose mouse in PK2.ġ) Set profile name to Pekka Kana 2 or whateverģ) DirectX Version Hook: either Automatic or DirectX 7Ĥ) Window initial position & size: set W to width (PK2's default: 640) and H (default: 480). You will now have this window:Įach of green-marked fields are either harmless or vital for something. You may also want to read manual.pdf fileģ. You need to know that it will need to be running before PK2 is run. This little program does it's best to allow you to run any DirectX-powered game to run in windowed mode. Well, my fellow Pistegamerz, it indeed works. I've been thinking about it a bit today (not much, really), and I remembered that there was an utility that does allow you to switch any DX-powered game into windowed mode, hopefully solving most of problems, and I found it once again. Not to mention lack of even Alt+Tab or printscreen support in game. Everybody playing it nowadays knows what I mean.Īlso, I hated how PK2 wasn't designed to play in window, and all that resolution increase does is to fill blank space with black. Not only you needed to change graphics mode, run in compatibility mode, but also to turn off explorer.exe. ![]() ![]() We all know that PK2 has been suffering heavily on modern PCs and operating systems like Windows 7.
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