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Video Setting Application

Help, SoaSE wont let me change my resolution!

December 26, 2008 1:21:43 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

The title and subtitle basically state the information.

 

I have a new monitor installed as of today, which supports 1080i and 720p resolutions by television standards. I have it running at 1680x1050 at the moment. When I loaded up Sins to see how it would look, it was in it's window of 1028x764 (pardon if I misremember numbers) that I had it running on the old 1280x1024 monitor. When I went to adjust the resolution, the 'apply' button never lit up. It wouldn't let me change, or even leave windowed mode!

 

As note - I was able to apply and change settings under the 'effects' tab.

 

Entrenchment beta is installed, so this may be an issue related to that.

 

My video card is an nVidia 8600 GT w/ 512 MB DDR2. My CPU is an Intel Wolfdale E8400. (45nm @ 3.0gHz)

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Reply #1 December 26, 2008 1:30:05 PM
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That's pretty odd. I don't know why it wouldn't let you apply the changes, but you can do it manually by editing your user.setting file in the user path (check Options > Mods > show mod path to see the user path). It'll just be in \Setting instead of \Mods. You can toggle out of windowed mode there, too.

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Reply #2 December 26, 2008 1:34:41 PM
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Oh, I'd much rather windowed mode, even if it's fullscreen. I multi-task a lot. It is definitely odd. (Nice to talk to ya, by the way. I've been playing and lurking on these forums since SoaSE beta, so I'm familiar with you. Just so distracted that I rarely play online, and never post!)

 

Thank you for the note about the user.setting, didn't think about that. I'll try it before work.

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Reply #3 December 26, 2008 1:36:23 PM
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Ok...

 

It appears to be a bug in regards to windowed mode. I loaded it up and the game was fullscreen at the lower resolution. I then went to adjust resolution and set it to windowed and it did, right back down to the 1024x768. Wont adjust out of that, no matter what I set resolution to.

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Reply #4 December 26, 2008 1:40:09 PM
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The default windowed resolution is 1024x768, it always starts up that way. You either have to stretch it each time, or there's actually lines in user.setting to change the default windowed resolution as well

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Reply #5 December 26, 2008 1:46:32 PM
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...stretching it. Yeah. Didn't think about that. A lot of games don't allow it in windows, so I forgot SoaSE did. Ok, got it fiddled with and cooperating now. Thank you!

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Reply #6 December 26, 2008 1:48:06 PM
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You're welcome

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