Black screen on startup

[Vinraider335]

Hello,

I am not able to play the game anymore. I used to be able to play the game fullscreen without any issue and without using any tweaks before. Last time I played it was a few months ago.

Now when I start it, screen stays black. I hear the intro sound and then when I move the mouse around I can hear that I move hover the menu items, I can even click on them.

I tried all the workarounds I found but without success:
- Re-install the game
- Apply the "Renderer_Direct3D_9_Shader_palette.reg" tweak
- Modify compatibility options in WA.exe properties
- Try at 100% scaling

I am able to launch the game in windowed mode but it is very small.

I am on Windows 11 laptop, 3820x2160 and 225% scaling.
I have 2 graphics and all pilots are up to date:
- Intel(R) Iris(R) Plus Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti

Any idea?

[[ C h a r l e s ]]

what's the version of the game you're running? do you have windowed mode enabled?

[Vinraider335]

It's 3.8.1 version.
I am able to run the game correctly in Windowed mode but it is really small given my screen resolution and scaling. Issue only appears when I try to launch it fullscreen.

Edit: I just made a try and connect an external monitor to my laptop and it works fine on the second monitor. Even more strange: I tried it in "Duplicate" mode and it works like before on the laptop monitor :o !

However once I disconnect the other monitor, the issue appears again, even while game is running.

I noticed 2 other "old" games which seem to have the exact same issue: Tomb Raider 3 (original one, not Steam version) and Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine (Steam version). So it looks like a more global issue.

I really don't understand what is happening, especially as everything was working fine a few weeks ago with all these games. I tried uninstalling/re-installing all graphics drivers but without success. Can a Windows update from the past weeks be the cause?

[[ C h a r l e s ]]

Originally posted by Vinraider335:

Windowed mode but it is really small given my screen resolution and scaling.

here's a mod for a bigger frontend
https://worms2d.info/SuperFrontendHD

[Vinraider335]

Hi!

Thanks a lot! With the mod I am finally able to launch the game properly!

However the resolution in a party is still small, whatever the value I put in the settings page.
In the past, if I put a lower resolution, the game was like "zoomed in". Now only the window is reduced but zoom level stays at the highest resolution. The worms and text in game are really tiny.

[[ C h a r l e s ]]

what resolution did you choose? in WA, resolution only expands the field of view, and there is no zoom function

[Vinraider335]

I choose 1366x738.
A few weeks ago when I played with this resolution in fullscreen, the resolution was not only affecting the field of view but the size of the game elements (text, worms, terrain, objects, ...) That is why I used 1366x738 instead of 3820x2160 because with the later everything was too tiny and unreadable.

[[ C h a r l e s ]]

yea, don't use 4k on this game lol
you can try stretching the game's resolution https://www.tus-wa.com/forums/worms-armageddon/activating-stretch-in-windowed-mode-on-3-8-32814/msg276031/#msg276031

[Vinraider335]

Perfect, thanks to this last link I was able to recover the behavior as before!

Thanks a lot!