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Leus AKA Simba
Apr 9, 2011, 08:10 PM
Hey guys, at least 80% the time now when I try to run JJ2+, I get this error:

FATAL APPLICATION ERROR

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 signaled the following internal error:

Could not set video mode 640x480x16 with Any compatible mode

Make sure that this mode is supported by your adapter and that drivers for your video board are properly installed. If you have not installed DirectX, please do so.

Please solve this problem and restart Jazz Jackrabbit 2.

The other 20% or less of the time, it opens fine, and I haven't found a consistent reason why. Also, every time I try to run normal non-plus JJ2, it works. Any idea?
Jgke
Apr 9, 2011, 08:44 PM
Yeah, it's a JJ2+ error for an unknown reason. Make a shortcut of JJ2, and a parameter of -menu.
For example, "C:\Games\JJ2\Jazz2+" -menu
Leus AKA Simba
Apr 11, 2011, 04:27 AM
Cool, thanks man, seems to be working.

For anyone searching for this and not quite understanding: I right-clicked the short-cut and went to properties, and made the "target" field read, "C:\Games\Jazz2\Jazz2+.exe -menu"

Is that what you were saying to do, Jake? It's also possible that it's just randomly working now for some reason and I didn't accurately do what you were saying haha.
Jgke
Apr 11, 2011, 10:46 AM
Yeah. That's what I meant ;)
CrimiClown
Apr 11, 2011, 11:25 AM
This helps a lot. I had this too, but I noticed that starting the game in window mode never has this problem... so I pressed Alt+Enter as soon as the game started, so it reverted to window mode and got through the intro movies. Then, I remembered never to exit JJ2 in Full Screen. ;)
TomoAlien
Apr 12, 2011, 05:47 AM
Plusified JJ2 seems to do that when the game starts in full screen. Just put the -windowed command in to fix it, because jj2+ doesn't really like starting in fullscreen for some reason.
Jgke
Apr 12, 2011, 06:23 AM
Plusified JJ2 seems to do that when the game starts in full screen. Just put the -windowed command in to fix it, because jj2+ doesn't really like starting in fullscreen for some reason.

LATEST plus. The earlier versions didn't have this problem.
Slaz
Apr 16, 2011, 01:30 AM
Yeah, only happens with latest plus.

I'm using the -menu command to get around it, as I don't use JJ2 in windowed mode all too much.