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What are the Requirements for Fullscreen Consoles in Windows 7?

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Mar 15, 20264530 views
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When you try to switch a console to fullscreen in Windows 7, it gives the error This system does not support fullscreen mode. Of note is the part about “this system”, intimating that some systems do support fullscreen consoles. Similarly, if you try to use the API function, it returns error 120: Th…

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Fix for: What are the Requirements for Fullscreen Consoles in Windows 7?

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As suggested, I'll post my comment from earlier as a separate answer: The problem is that the new driver model does not support VGA text mode programs. Whether those are 8, 16, 32, or even 64 bit doesn't matter. I don't know if any of the old VGA mo…

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