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Aquaria => General => Topic started by: Chief on December 08, 2007, 04:48:03 am

Title: Resoloutions
Post by: Chief on December 08, 2007, 04:48:03 am
Why is there no support for 1280 x 1024? Theres support for 1280 x 960 but I thought for a 17" monitor x 1024 is the standard
Title: Re: Resoloutions
Post by: Quemaqua on December 08, 2007, 04:50:00 am
That's actually not uncommon, though it can be a little aggravating if you're playing on an LCD where 1280x1024 is the native res.  I fall into that category.  I honestly don't know why this is sometimes the case, but I've run into numerous games that only list 1280x960 as the nearest option.
Title: Re: Resoloutions
Post by: neadlak on December 08, 2007, 05:26:31 am
Most wide-aspect monitors have an option somewhere to just display black bars on the sides and maintain the proper aspect ratio.

On Nvidia (Geforce) graphics cards it's a setting called 'Flat Panel Scaling' in the nvidia control panel. Or run it windowed.

(Don't actually run it windowed, it deserves your whole screen)
Title: Re: Resoloutions
Post by: Alec on December 08, 2007, 05:32:05 am
I'm gonna work on the whole black bar/widescreen thing at some point! :)

For now its best to use a windowed mode if you're using a widescreen monitor I think.
Title: Re: Resoloutions
Post by: facewon on December 08, 2007, 07:22:18 am
just tried windowed mode, and while not perfect, it sure improves things.

I will love you long time if you can sort widescreen though.  :-[
Title: Re: Resoloutions
Post by: realyst on December 09, 2007, 04:05:18 am
I must say, though, that at high resolution, the game is simple beautiful.

It really feels like gliding through a painting.  What native resolution are the actual bitmaps?  Or is it all procedural?  I've yet to notice a single pixel or aliasing artifact.
Title: Re: Resoloutions
Post by: krizzl0r on December 10, 2007, 01:37:05 pm
i just wanted to stress the request for other resolutions. the x960 doesnt bother me very much, but there is definitely a need for w i d e s c r e e n-resolutions   ::)

i'm not sure if there is any change, but you can change the res via the init.cfg file too. haxx0red 1280x1024 in there and it seems to work - but actually i didnt see much of a difference. the pixel jumps at x960 are just not very noticeable..
and before you guys try and haxx0r widescreen-resolutions in the init.cfg - it gets pretty messy and kinda has the effect magic-1 on the whole game ;)