Full screen issues

[Joram Lionheart]

So I can't run UO in full screen mode. When I toggle the display to full screen, not only does it not work, it turns the game window completely grey. I know there's probably a bazillion reasons why this is happening so I'm asking for suggestions.

I'm running the UO Gold client on Windows XP on virtual machine (Parallels Desktop) on my iMac. Yes, I know it's a miracle that I can get a 14 year old game to run at all this way. I guess what I'm asking is if I wasn't running Windows on a virtual machine and this was actually a PC and full screen didn't work, what would be the usual fix?

[Sei Ryu]

Usual fix would be to update the graphics drivers.

[Edison]

It works fine in windowed mode?

I know I had that issue at some point in the distant past, you could try deleting your "ultimaonline/desktop/accountname/world of dreams" folder, that used to be a kinda generic "I have no idea whats wrong lets try this" fix that would work more often than not.

[Thomas Duklain]

Do you have 'enable 3D acceleration' checked in the Parallels settings?

[Joram Lionheart]

Do you have 'enable 3D acceleration' checked in the Parallels settings?

Where do I change that? I've looked under "Preferences" and under "Configure" and I don't seem to get that option. I have Parallels 6, by the way,

At Michella's suggestion I adjusted my Mac's resolution to 1024 x 768 and that helped somewhat. The UO window is bigger now but it's still not full screen. I guess that's better than nothing.

[Thomas Duklain]

I'm not familiar with Parallels. They have a pdf you can look at to find out how to change that.

[Atei]

I am also having the grey screen issue now. I checked the GDF button (I think that's right) and now every time I open I get the grey screen and I can't do anything except close the client. I uninstalled and re-installed UO Gold (thinking that would reset everything, nope) and even downloaded the WOD files again. I am running Windows 7 Home Premium. Any ideas? I can't even log in right now.

[Atei]

So I did a complete uninstall and re-install and now it's working again. Phew!