NR2003 In A Window Tweak

Ok, so you’re tired of hitting (alt + tab) and the game either hangs or crashes when you’re trying to check something out outside of the game. Well fear no more, that’s a thing of the past. The first thing to know for this to work is to make sure that your desktop resolution is the exact same resolution as what you have selected in your game. For example, if your desktop resolution is 1280x1024x32…..then your game has to utilize the very exact resolution. If it doesn’t then the window option is not available.

Ok so now we have your desktop resolution set at 1280x1024x32 or whatever you use, but we will use this as our example. The way to do this is to right click you desktop screen and select properties then settings. Once that is done step 1 is complete. The next step is to set the game up in a window. To do this you will have to select the exact same resolution as your desktop in which this case is 1280x1024x32. Go into your game and select “Configure 3d Graphics”

As you can see when you have the proper resolution selected, the Run in a window option is available. Just make sure you select this or it won’t work. If you have the incorrect resolution selected this option will be grayed out and you will not be able to select it. Once you are set with your selection hit finish and it will go into a optimizing screen configuring your selections. When this is finished running everything will close down and you will be ready to fire it up.

Now some when they fire the game up will have no problems at all, the window will be centered however most will have the window off center. This is all fixable by doing the following. Go into your nascar folder and select the app ini file. Open up your app ini file and look for the following line: windowTopLeftX=0 this will be your left to right centering. If you see just a little line to the left a minor change is all that is needed. Usually a -3 will fix it, so basically it will look like this: windowTopLeftX=-3 If it is to the right the numbers will be positive….positive will move the screen to the right and negative will move it to the left. Now the next thing to adjust is the height of the window. The line that reads: windowTopLeftY=0 will be your height adjustment. Negative numbers will move the screen up and positive will move them down. A good starting spot will be the following: windowTopLeftY=-19 When you are finished making your adjustments click the red x to close and select yes when it asks you to save. Fire up your game and see if it still needs adjusting or if it’s good as is. If it needs adjusting just repeat the steps outlined above. Hope this helps and enjoy!

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