Wide screen BETA test - for CD owners only - Page 5

hawk66 · #1 August 22nd, 2010, 07:30 AM

desktop resolution does not work for me (both: windowed/full screen)...see attached screenshot.

The winspmbt screen occupies ~50% of the screen and you can hardly read anything.

Has anybody an idea? Have Win7 32bit and Geforce 8800.

Mobhack · #2 August 22nd, 2010, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by hawk66

desktop resolution does not work for me (both: windowed/full screen)...see attached screenshot.

The winspmbt screen occupies ~50% of the screen and you can hardly read anything.

Has anybody an idea? Have Win7 32bit and Geforce 8800.

If WinVFX graphics library is presented with an aspect ratio it does not like, then it squashes it up horizontally and/or vertically, and/or the display can be done at a diagonal. All sorts of weirdness, anyway as it tries to fit it on the display.

Now - as mentioned in the Game Guide, having your windows taskbar set to 'auto hide' will return the wrong window area to WinVFX, resulting in a skewed screen as well.

Have you got whatever Vista/windows 7 uses as a task bar in auto hide mode, or set along the side of the screen, or in extra-large double-high mode etc?. If so - make it static, and at the default location and size at the bottom of the screen. (And using the classic format taskbar, which is in there in your windows 7 'themes' or some such naming, may help here?).

That is my theory, on seeing your screen shot - that you have a task bar set-up (probably auto-hide) that is interfering with WinVFX (Which dates to the mid 90's when I don't think you could have anything other than the default task bar always visible at the screen bottom).

Otherwise - Perhaps trying one of the other resolutions your card supports may do the trick.

Also - does 1600x1200 mode work on your monitor in windowed mode? (There should be a small horizontal margin, but the vertical should take up all it can apart from the task bar at the bottom).

Cheers
Andy

Imp · #3 August 22nd, 2010, 10:44 AM

Just to say its not the resolution itself thats causing the problem one of my sytems runs desktop at that res with no problems

hawk66 · #4 August 22nd, 2010, 01:28 PM

auto-hide option was the problem...thanks a lot!

Wdll · #5 August 22nd, 2010, 07:40 AM

What is your desktop resolution?

hawk66 · #6 August 22nd, 2010, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Wdll

What is your desktop resolution?

1680x1050

DRG · #7 October 28th, 2010, 10:40 AM

I can recreate that effect exactly when I set the taskbar to autohide

Don

....and yes, I know you said you have autohide off. However, that is what happens when it's on.

Mobhack · #8 February 2nd, 2011, 05:45 PM

And just to reply to myself..

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One thing that I just noticed (and will have to check for myself to see if it is 100% true)

It looks like every monitor resolution that works fine, is divisible by 4 with no fraction remaining.

But 1366/4 = 341.5...

Andy

Mobhack · #9 February 5th, 2011, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Mobhack

And just to reply to myself..

!

One thing that I just noticed (and will have to check for myself to see if it is 100% true)

It looks like every monitor resolution that works fine, is divisible by 4 with no fraction remaining.

But 1366/4 = 341.5...

Andy

1366 pixel wide wide screen monitors require the code to adjust width to 1360 when playing in windowed mode. The code now does that, so the squashed screen in windowed mode for 1366x1024 monitors is now fixed.

This implies that those of you whose monitors are the 1360x1024 should be fine re the squashed problem, though I would still like to hear from any users who have such a screen resolution (some Dell monitors, apparently?).

I would also like to hear from any others where their native resolution does this thing as well, in order to find out about other weird wide-screen native pixel sizes. So if your monitor produces squashed screen in windowed mode "desktop" but happily plays in that resolution in full screen "desktop" - do let us know.

Andy

DRG · #10 February 4th, 2011, 06:16 PM

WE ARE ASKING EVERYONE WHO HAS TRIED THIS MBT GAMEOPTIONS BETA AND WHO ARE RUNNING THE GAME IN FULLSCREEN MODE TO PLEASE TRY THE ATTACHED CMD FILE AND LET US KNOW IF YOU SEE ANY DIFFERENCE WHEN THE GAME STARTS.

Unzip the attachement to your main game directory

We are interested in feedback not only from the people that the first one worked for but also from anyone that still had trouble with fullscreen mode after trying this the first time around.

THIS GAMEOPTIONS BETA AND THIS NEW CMD FILE HAVE NO AFFECT ON WINDOWED MODE AND ANYONE RUNNING WINDOWED MODE NEED NOT TRY IT

HOWEVER.... IF YOU GAVE UP ON FULLSCREEN MODE BECASUE OF PROBLEMS INTRODUCED SINCE WIN7 WAS RELEASED PLEASE TRY THIS << IN FULLSCREEN MODE >> AND LET US KNOW IF IT WORKS FOR YOU

THANK YOU

Don