Stranded Freezes after loading any island and a crash
Freezes after loading any island and a crash
5 replies I have trouble starting the game on Windows 11. I can get to main menu, but choosing any island the game just freeze. Not on loading screen but in-game where I can see the player character looking (or the camera is facing) at sea.
Of course I enabled compatibility mode. I tried with both Window XP service packs, with Windows Vista mode. And knowing Windows 98/ Windows ME wouldn't work I found it says something about memory. Maybe something about too much memory.
With in-game option at first I tried with highest settings, then didn't work out, then changed to lower settings, the same things happens.
About compatibility mode I tried running it in 640 x 480 resolution, disabling fullscreen optimizations and run the program as an administration. And it still was the same.
By the way when pressing alt and tab the game gets closed, or it crashes. DC Admin 
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You can try to go to the install folder and run "StrandedII -win.bat" to make it run in a Window. Sometimes that works better than running it full screen.
Also in compatibility mode the best resolution is probably 800x600 if you can choose that. It's the default resolution of the game. 640x480 is too small.
Another "hack" you can try is editing mods/Stranded II/sys/settings.cfg and changing the first lines (800 and 600) to the desired resolution (first width then height). Afterwards try to run the game. But keep in mind that UI won't scale with higher resolutions and is optimized for 800x600 so you shouldn't go too high. @
DC: I thought I posted this in Stranded 1 forums because I have problem with it. DC Admin Offline
Oh sorry my bad! I didn't notice!
I would still suggest 800x600 for the compatibility mode as it is the default resolution for Stranded as well. It's weird though that the menu works and starting a map crashes because the menu already contains 2D and 3D content.
There's also a settings.cfg file in the game folder with line 3 and 4 being width and height for the resolution and line 5 being the color depth. Maybe trying other resolutions and changing color depth to 32 helps? I doubt it though.
Did you load the game from the official download page?
https://strandedonline.de/s1_download.php Yeah I think I downloaded the game from official website. Using search engine I found strandedonline de (I can't post links, yet even to the game site) website and went to downloads from there.
I tried changing color depth from in-game settings, but that didn't seem to work. I don't remember if I tried with color depth 32.
For compatibility mode I only see checkbox for 640x480.
For now tinkering with settings.cfg didn't work out.
Either way thanks for trying to help.
Maybe technically it is crash, but when loading into map the game becomes frozen, can't do anything at least in-game. Pressing alt and tab at same the time crashes the game.
Well first time opening windows asked installs directplay or something, at first I didn't let it, of course the game didn't run at all then, then in second launch I let that to be installed and I got to main menu after enabling compatibly mode. Big shot in the dark, but since the game is so old at this point, you might need something like dgVoodoo2... 
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