Help with SH3 Commander

GJO · 02-05-14, 10:49 AM

Having got SH3 with GWX3 loaded and working on my new laptop with Windows 8.1, I am experiencing a problem with SH3 Commander. The screen on my new laptop is in wide format and when I start SH3 Commander the usual buttons to 'set options', 'rollback', 'start SH3' and 'exit' are all off the bottom of the screen! Is there a fix for this?

GreyBeard · 02-05-14, 11:36 AM

Just out of curiosity, where did you install SH3 Commander?

GJO · 02-05-14, 12:47 PM

I created a new directory (or folder as they now prefer to call them) called Games and installed evreything to do with SH3 there. So SH3 commander is at: "C:\Games\SH3 Commander\SH3Cmdr.exe"

Mittelwaechter · 02-05-14, 01:15 PM

Did you change your textsize/font settings in Control Panel->Display higher than 100%?

GJO · 02-05-14, 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mittelwaechter

Did you change your textsize/font settings in Control Panel->Display higher than 100%?

Ooops! Guess I will just have to invest in stronger reading glasses!
I had set the text size to 125% !!!

Now back at 100% and all is fine . . .

Sailor Steve · 02-05-14, 01:45 PM

Been there, done that.

Pisces · 02-05-14, 01:55 PM

Odd, I have Win7 and also DPI set to 125%. But it doesn't change SH3 Commander. What's your screen resolution?

Is this new Win 8.1 behaviour?

Sailor Steve · 02-05-14, 02:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pisces

Odd, I have Win7 and also DPI set to 125%. But it doesn't change SH3 Commander. What's your screen resolution?

Is this new Win 8.1 behaviour?

He found the answer and explained the problem up in post #5.

Mittelwaechter · 02-05-14, 02:47 PM

Win 8 is not the problem, but some fixed settings in SH3 Commander and the Patrol Log Editor.

My setting is at 125% and the SH3 Commander works great at 1920x1080/Win7,

but the patrol log editor doesn't and I had to hack it to get the buttons visible.

Pisces · 02-05-14, 03:28 PM

Ok, then it is just the combination of having Win 8(.1), DPI setting higher than 100, and SH3 Commander/Patrol Log editor.

I knew the OP figured it out after Mittelwaechter's suggestion. I just wanted to know why it doesn't show up in my system. Which is apparently due to the lack of Win 8.

02-05-14, 10:49 AM	#1
GJO Engineer Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: On the Oxford Canal in England Posts: 202 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	Help with SH3 Commander Having got SH3 with GWX3 loaded and working on my new laptop with Windows 8.1, I am experiencing a problem with SH3 Commander. The screen on my new laptop is in wide format and when I start SH3 Commander the usual buttons to 'set options', 'rollback', 'start SH3' and 'exit' are all off the bottom of the screen! Is there a fix for this?

02-05-14, 01:15 PM	#4
Mittelwaechter The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,304 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Did you change your textsize/font settings in Control Panel->Display higher than 100%? __________________ 10 happy wolves rear 90 blinded, ensnared sheep. 90 happy sheep banish the wolves. Arrest the 1% - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ6hg1oNeGE

02-05-14, 01:45 PM	#6
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Been there, done that. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

02-05-14, 02:47 PM	#9
Mittelwaechter The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,304 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Win 8 is not the problem, but some fixed settings in SH3 Commander and the Patrol Log Editor. My setting is at 125% and the SH3 Commander works great at 1920x1080/Win7, but the patrol log editor doesn't and I had to hack it to get the buttons visible. __________________ 10 happy wolves rear 90 blinded, ensnared sheep. 90 happy sheep banish the wolves. Arrest the 1% - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ6hg1oNeGE

02-05-14, 11:36 AM	#2
GreyBeard Engineer Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: LI, NY Posts: 209 Downloads: 257 Uploads: 2	Just out of curiosity, where did you install SH3 Commander?

02-05-14, 12:47 PM	#3
GJO Engineer Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: On the Oxford Canal in England Posts: 202 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	I created a new directory (or folder as they now prefer to call them) called Games and installed evreything to do with SH3 there. So SH3 commander is at: "C:\Games\SH3 Commander\SH3Cmdr.exe"

02-05-14, 01:55 PM	#7
Pisces Silent Hunter Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: AN9771 Posts: 4,904 Downloads: 304 Uploads: 0	Odd, I have Win7 and also DPI set to 125%. But it doesn't change SH3 Commander. What's your screen resolution? Is this new Win 8.1 behaviour?

02-05-14, 03:28 PM	#10
Pisces Silent Hunter Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: AN9771 Posts: 4,904 Downloads: 304 Uploads: 0	Ok, then it is just the combination of having Win 8(.1), DPI setting higher than 100, and SH3 Commander/Patrol Log editor. I knew the OP figured it out after Mittelwaechter's suggestion. I just wanted to know why it doesn't show up in my system. Which is apparently due to the lack of Win 8.