getting aurora to work

[Steve Walmsley]

This is a screenshot of my second monitor running 1280x1024 with the F9 window in view. How do the proportions compare to your machine?



Steve

[Feralkoala]

This is what I see. It makes me think my monitor isn't at the correct resolution, despite it saying it is in two different places.

[Steve Walmsley]

It does look like you are in 1024x768. Unfortunately I haven't used Vista so I don't know if there is anything weird about resolutions. Is there anyone reading this who is using Aurora with Vista at 1280 resolution?

Steve

[Cassaralla]

Hi.  Was pointed here by the SCN forum and have installed 2.5 acording to all the instructions and now I'm getting the same error as the original poster of this thread.

when i clicked on "system information" i recieved the following:
Error 713 was generated by Aurora
Class not registered
You need the following file to be installed on your machine. MSSTDFMT.DLL

So, I've looked and failed on finding this file, any pointers on where to look?

[Steve Walmsley]

Hi.  Was pointed here by the SCN forum and have installed 2.5 acording to all the instructions and now I'm getting the same error as the original poster of this thread.

when i clicked on "system information" i recieved the following:
Error 713 was generated by Aurora
Class not registered
You need the following file to be installed on your machine. MSSTDFMT.DLL

So, I've looked and failed on finding this file, any pointers on where to look?

Here is a link for a discussion on computing.net regarding the problems associated with this file: http://www.computing.net/programming/ww ... m/540.html

Here is a link for downloading the file if required: http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-f ... l?msstdfmt

Steve

[Cassaralla]

Thank you kindly Steve.  That worked a treat.

[Buaman22]

Having the same problem w/ not being able to see the bottom of the screen, he's a screenshot.  I'm running on a 13.3 in laptop with a max resolution of 1280x800

Anyone have a fix for this or am I just sol?

[Hawkeye]

The game needs at least 1280 x 1024 resolution, otherwise, as you observed, you can?t see the buttons down there.
I had it running on my similar laptop by using some kind of virtual monitor. I was just playing around in the systems menue, and managed to set the thing to a higher resolution than the screen was able to display.
Everytime the mousepointer went over the lower/upper edge, the picture on the screen would  "scroll" up or down, to follow the pointer.

I?m not sure you can understand what I am trying to say, as I am having a hard time to understand it myself

As far as I remember I did it by right clicking on a free spot on the screen -->  Settings (or something along that line, as I have a german Windows) --> Settings

There I can set up a Multi-Monitor-System. By fooling around with those settings I managed the trick. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable with PCs (I just hit keys and press buttons and pray the bloody thing does as I want it to) can help and explain it better.

[Buaman22]

I haven't been able to find much on something like that either.

I tried rotating my screen and that kinda worked, except up left and down being right and such isn't terribly natural.

If someone else knows something about this or another fix, I'd be terribly happy.

[Erik L]

There was a link posted to a "screen expander" utility. Allows you to scroll off the edges of your monitor. I've used it on my laptop to run Aurora. I know the link is around here somewhere. If I find it, I'll repost it.

[Buaman22]

Oh that would be most excellent