Help with Full Screen

[Ixindor]

Ok, so after the new updates I was extremely excited to play Runescape on Full Screen. But much to my disappointment, I played last night on High Detail, but with old interface (looking at the game through its little window). So I decide to try and figure out the problem and can't seem to get it to work.

 

 

 

First off, here is what keeps happening. My laptop (which is the only PC I have) has 5 different resolutions to choose from. After I pick one (I have tried them all) and click on Full Screen (either ingame or at the login) it just goes to a full white screen. Then goes back. Ingame I get a message saying something along the lines of "There was problem going to Full Screen."

 

 

 

My computer specs are fine for this, but I do not have a graphix card for anti-aliasing. If that is the problem, then I guess I'm screwed. I don't even know what Anti-Aliasing does.

 

 

 

I'm beginning to think that it is my Java. I went to Control Panel>Java>Update and noticed that the last time I manually ran an update was in 06/17/07. It says I have Java 6 Standard. I tried to run the update last night (it told me there were updates available). After I clicked on install, I would get 2 messages seemingly at random. One would say "Request timed out" and the other would say "Cannot install updates. Check windows Internet Options to ensure proxies are set correctly." I use Firefox exclusively.

 

 

 

Can anyone PLEASE help me solve this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I feel like I am missing out on something great.

 

 

 

~Ixindor~

[Makoto_the_Phoenix]

Don't worry *too* much about Antialiasing, since it looks like you won't really need it :P

 

 

 

My advice to you is to manually uninstall Java, then download it from the Java website and install it again.

[Randox]

Anti-Aliasing is set off be defult because it has even more impact on preformance than the water. What version of Java do you have? There is something in Jagex's faq about this but chances are if you don't have Java 1.6, getting it will solve your problem. Also IE explore 5.5 NEEDS Java 1.6 to work (its the latest version) though you may have to get firefox since I dont know if IE 5.5 can even use the latest Java.

 

 

 

Other than that if you turned anti-aliasing on, turn it off. You can also set all your other graphics options to minimum (in HD mode) and try again using whatever resolution you normally do.

 

 

 

And anti-aliasing is a proccess that removes or minimizes any jagged edges. Basicly it keeps things smooth when you go into full screen which would be most needed on large monitors and/or low resolution, but many cards can't do it (only fairly new ones), or can't do it fast enough to play RS without lagging.

[Dracion1]

Download the latest java from java.com and make sure your graphics drivers are up to date. It's not the resolution, fullscreen has worked fine on my laptop (which has intel onboard graphics) at a variety of standard and widescreen resolutions. You might also want to make sure you are using the latest version of your browser.

 

 

 

Also, anti aliasing will probably be set to off with no option to change it if your card doesn't support it.

[Ixindor]

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My roommate and I have Dell Latitude 1200 series laptops. His is about 6 months older than mine. For some reason, he can go to Full Screen with no problems. He, however, only has 2 available resolutions. Also, both of our Anti-Aliasing options are disabled. Turning them on is not an option for either of us. Our graphix cards are generic chipsets. But High Detail does work for us. We can both play on the highest setting with all the other High Detail options turned on and set to the highest and dynamic settings. But for some reason, my laptop doesn't like Full Screen.