D2K Windowed?

[Doctor Destiny]

Lost my account from a decade ago but anyway, I found an old copy of D2K I had laying around. It's portable and I'm sure it's the latest version of the game. I have it running on Windows 7 x64 without any trouble but I want to play it in a window rather than full screen since it's stretched. I use DxWND to force games into a window but it's not working no matter what combination of options I choose. Is anyone around here familiar with DxWND and can tell me what to do? If I need a different source of the game, that's fine too. Just point me in the right direction and I'll go from there.

[THE AQIB]

why play windowed?? well all patches for resolution and windowed mode are stuck intime and no one to revive it...

well thts wht i know... also if windowed itll be smaller thn.the screen and your eyes will strain searching for units...

[Doctor Destiny]

I don't play anything full screen anymore. I do a lot of multitasking so a full screen window interrupts that, which is why I want it windowed. That and I don't like it stretched. I can live with a small resolution, but not while it's stretched.

 

Actually, I play Zero Hour in a window and I have no trouble finding any units. Same with Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2.

[THE AQIB]

well as i said there aint a patch till now cause the game is hard to crack and westwood abandoned it... and cchyper who was working on this has gone cold... so no way we can do tht...

[Doctor Destiny]

I don't think I really need a patch since DxWND does exactly what I need it to do, which is become a window. I'm sure just not sure of the particulars behind the game's engine. If I could get some more information on that like DirectX version, whether it uses GDI, etc, I could run from there.

[THE AQIB]

well dune2k was built on basic code and has a completely different stuff thn the later cnc games... hence no window mode nor anyone tried making one...

[Feda]

I think it is DirectX 5, not sure.

[THE AQIB]

yea in the original disk it might there..

[Gruntlord6]

Lost my account from a decade ago but anyway, I found an old copy of D2K I had laying around. It's portable and I'm sure it's the latest version of the game. I have it running on Windows 7 x64 without any trouble but I want to play it in a window rather than full screen since it's stretched. I use DxWND to force games into a window but it's not working no matter what combination of options I choose. Is anyone around here familiar with DxWND and can tell me what to do? If I need a different source of the game, that's fine too. Just point me in the right direction and I'll go from there.

It is hard coded to run fullscreen at that resolution. There is nothing that can be done to change that without modding the main executable (dune2000.dat).