Access violation error when adding a second screen

[thestick]

I am playing as Japan, Very Large fleet, Varied Technologies, manual build of legacy fleet, Historical Resources (though this save was created in 1900 so it didn't matter). I have a laptop and an external monitor. Often, I play Rule the Waves II on just the laptop when doing fleet management, then shift to the external monitor when a battle occurs. If I enter a battle on just the laptop monitor, then connect my computer to the external monitor, I access violation errors.

Specifically, when I try to right click a division to change AI behavior, or ready an airstrike, or exit the scenario, I get the following error:
Access violation at address 0044EF48 in modile 'RTW2.exe'.
Read of address 00000004.

The error does not occur if I try to change speed/course through mouse-clicking or through typing things into the main battle window. If I had to guess, this occurs whenever the program tries to create a new popup window.

[williammiller]

Thanks for the report...we are aware of reports that RTW2 has some issues with multi-monitor setups (RTW1 did as well) - this is likely an artifact of the core game engine used for the two games - but we will of course look at it to see if anything can be tweaked that may help with this.

Thanks again.