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Originally Posted by cuckoo
I guess I was lucky then to survive with full screen so far! I can probably live with windowed mode on desktop resolution even though tiny options menu rips my eyes off.
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Did you run the game at say 1024x768 or 1152 or some such in full screen mode so that things "looked larger"?
If so the same effect with windowed mode run in desktop resolution is
1) Change windows to a lower resolution (like 1280x960) that suits your preference.
(You will likely need to experiment with the resolutions your video card allows - some may well stretch the game icons. Find one that is the correct aspect ratio by trial and error.)
2) Now launch and play the game - desktop resolution uses the current windows settings, which you have set in step 1
3) Once you have finished and closed the game, return the windows desktop to whatever it was before step 1
Many folks with poor eyesight, or who dont want to use their reading glasses, or for whatever reason dont want such a big screen with "little" dialogues etc, use
exactly that method of making the game play at a lower resolution than the "full" windows desktop.
The old "fixed" resolutions are for 4:3 square CRT. Modern monitors are wide-screen ones, and the desktop resolution is designed to handle those. You simply have to use
windows own desktop sizing before launching the game. (It also handles the nasty 1366 wide screen as used on cheaper laptops (like mine) that dont have the correct 4 pixel divisible area that the game's video requires, so it knows to chop 2 pixels off the width).