Widescreen switch problem

[Chris21wen]

Or at least I think there is.

I posted this in the AE forum.

'First I don't have a problem with it but I would like to know what the wide screen settings do. Currently I'm running AE without any widescreen switches resulting in a stretched map etc. This bothers me not.

If I use the swtiches -px#### -py#### will this result in a wide screen map without the distortion? '

The answer was 'yes' , so I tried it but the switches appear to make no difference what-so-ever. In both cases I get the same numebr of hexes. If the switches worked as above I would have expected more acrosss the screen.

I'm using -px1440 -py0900, windows 7 and an ATI card.

I was advised to post it here.

[BigJ62]

There is a minor bug with wide screen.

[dorjun driver]

Ain't it a bummer when we get what we wish for?[:'(]

[Marc]

ORIGINAL: BigJ62

There is a minor bug with wide screen.

Does this mean that it is known that there are problems with ATI cards and Windows 7 64-bit regarding the screen resolution change?

[jwilkerson]

Nope.

We put in some protection - to try to mitigate people using resolutions that were not supported. In some cases this protection is too strong and we will back it off a bit. Might cause some new problems and solve some old ones - but we will try to find the best balance. We do not have the resources to test every possible combination of hardware and software and settings that people might come up with - so we are having to find the best balance with some experimentation.

[USSAmerica]

....and doing a fantastic job of it, Joe!  

[jigsaw]

Heh, just my luck, finally decided to buy this game due to the wide screen support and it doesnt work for me either (no worries though, understand its a beta at the moment!) [:)]

Just to confirm another report, it doesnt seem to want to run on Vista 64 with an ATI for me card either, tried just about everything.  Dual monitor setup, not sure if that may be related.

Any chance you guys will be releasing beta patch that might get this running...1024x768 on a 30" monitor makes my eyes bleed [;)]

[Halsey]

This is just an uneducated guess, but...

Create a new shortcut for the exe application from your main AE folder.

Move it to your desktop.
Then change the new shortcut properties for the widescreen enhancements.

This is what I did, and the beta fired up correctly on the first try.
I went with 1440x0900, as that's my monitor's best resolution setting.

[TOMLABEL]

ORIGINAL: jigsaw

it doesnt seem to want to run on Vista 64 with an ATI for me card either, tried just about everything.  Dual monitor setup, not sure if that may be related.

It works fine on my Vista 64/ATI card single monitor. It will not work with a dual monitor setup. I've tried it repeatedly - dual monitor support is not going to work.

[Iridium]

It works for me but I wish I could make full use of my screen. I'm using an odd resolution: 1824 x 1026 and it won't work at this despite every other program working fine.

I can get 1920 x 1080 to work but the edges of the game are cut off. [:(]

I'm running Vista 64 bit with the latest drivers and a Nvidia 285 GTX.

[BigJ62]

That would be a monitor or video card setting doing that.

ORIGINAL: Iridium

It works for me but I wish I could make full use of my screen. I'm using an odd resolution: 1824 x 1026 and it won't work at this despite every other program working fine.

I can get 1920 x 1080 to work but the edges of the game are cut off. [:(]

I'm running Vista 64 bit with the latest drivers and a Nvidia 285 GTX.

[Iridium]

ORIGINAL: BigJ62

That would be a monitor or video card setting doing that.

ORIGINAL: Iridium

It works for me but I wish I could make full use of my screen. I'm using an odd resolution: 1824 x 1026 and it won't work at this despite every other program working fine.

I can get 1920 x 1080 to work but the edges of the game are cut off. [:(]

I'm running Vista 64 bit with the latest drivers and a Nvidia 285 GTX.

Hmm, interesting...my monitor was set to a different mode and was causing the issue. Fixed. [8D]

[Chris21wen]

I was having a problem with these switches but no longer. I reinstalled the beta patch and now they work. I have also found out that they will work for any resolution, wide or not. Further you can have your machine on one resolution and the game on another although I've only tried this with my desktop on max res with a lower game res. I've not tried the other way round. I can't have thing the other way round with my old eyes.

It's good.

[sven6345789]

Question might sound rather dumb but Where do i find the switch?; asked that question before and got the info "next to the exe file". Checked that file but somehow haven't found it yet. Do i have to open the file with an editor or something? Settings won't be a problem after this.
obviously, i am not a computer expert[&:]

[Marc]

ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

Nope.

We put in some protection - to try to mitigate people using resolutions that were not supported. In some cases this protection is too strong and we will back it off a bit. Might cause some new problems and solve some old ones - but we will try to find the best balance. We do not have the resources to test every possible combination of hardware and software and settings that people might come up with - so we are having to find the best balance with some experimentation.

Perhaps you could add a "force" switch for the ones of us who know what they are doing?! [8|]

[Halsey]

There is no actual switch...

On the quick launch shortcut icon, on your desktop.
Or create a new shortcut from the game folder, and move it to your desktop.(Recommended)

Right click, then properties.

In the "Target" box it gives the location of the application.
You must add this after the target location: (space)-px0000(space)-py0000
0000 represents your screen resolutions.
Apply, and your done.

For instance mine is set on 1440x0900.

So:
"Target Location" -px1440 -py0900

There are other application enhancements listed in the readme file for the patch.
These add extra stuff.[;)]

[Marc]

ORIGINAL: Halsey

There is no actual switch...

On the quick launch shortcut icon, on your desktop.
Or create a new shortcut from the game folder, and move it to your desktop.(Recommended)

Right click, then properties.

In the "Target" box it gives the location of the application.
You must add this after the target location: (space)-px0000(space)-py0000
0000 represents your screen resolutions.
Apply, and your done.

For instance mine is set on 1440x0900.

So:
"Target Location" -px1440 -py0900

There are other application enhancements listed in the readme file for the patch.
These add extra stuff.[;)]

Thank you Halsey but I knew that.
It works on my notebook but not on my primary PC.

As I understood jwilkerson the cause that it is sometimes not working is that the program thinks that your PC can't do it when it could.
So my proposal for the developers is to add a switch/parameter to force the resolution change. (example: -px1400 -py0900 -f)
This should help at least when I understood the problem correctly.

[jwilkerson]

ORIGINAL: Marc
So my proposal for the developers is to add a switch/parameter to force the resolution change. (example: -px1400 -py0900 -f)
This should help at least when I understood the problem correctly.

We already have fix that works - are you suggesting that we shelf our solution and try yours instead? [:D]

[MorningDew]

I found a fix too. I bougth a monitor that supported higher resolutions[:D] Thanks for giving me the reason[;)][;)][&o][&o]

[Marc]

ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

ORIGINAL: Marc
So my proposal for the developers is to add a switch/parameter to force the resolution change. (example: -px1400 -py0900 -f)
This should help at least when I understood the problem correctly.

We already have fix that works - are you suggesting that we shelf our solution and try yours instead? [:D]

I will answer your question after I tried your fix [;)]
By the way. I just installed Virtual PC 2007 on my PC and installed a Windows XP SP2 and the resolution change worked in the virtual machine as it should.