From:	Andrew Cottrell <andnews AT ihug DOT com DOT oz DOT au>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Full screen mode under Win2k???
Date:	Sat, 11 Jan 2003 19:04:40 +1100
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>If I launch rhide.exe in full screen mode under 
>Windows 2000, when I chose DOS Shell, or Exit, or 
>COMPILE AND LAUNCH ANY C FILE (from rhide) I got a 
>black screen. If I press ALT+ENTER and use the window 
>mode everythings works fine. 
On 2K and XP make sure you are using Rhide 1.5.0 snapshot from
29-Aug-2002 (or later when one is done).

What video card do you have and what is the video chipset? If you are
using a Nvida chipset try starting rhide with a "-S" (upper case S)
and see how you go. The -S option changes the way the TV sources
access the VGA registers to hopefully work arround bugs in the VGA
save/restore functions in the video bios.

The other item to try is the latest video driver for your video card
from the supplier of the video card or the chip set manufacturer.
Please note that sometimes the later video drivers have more bugs that
the older, but this usually only occurs if you use a beta driver. In
either case ensure you read up on the driver before installing it at
your own risk.

Have you tried changing from the cmd.com to command.com or vice versa
as the command prompt you use. There are two on 2K & XP and they do
work slightly differently.  Watch what you set the comspec to so that
the shell uses the one you wnat instead of what 2K/XP want.

Andrew

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