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Spiffy new g-card running sins on low rez only?

May 6, 2010 7:46:10 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

My PC:

Intel Core 2 duo E8400 on a Gigabyte EP45-UD3R mobo

4 GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 PC6400

New Asus Geforce GTX 470

Windows 7 64-bit

 

I have run sins before on my system, but not with the new g-card and not in windows 7 (i upgraded both at the same time). Now I install everything and I am forced to run at 1024x768 resolution. No other resolutions appear in the options menu. I was running at my monitor's max resolution before I upgraded, but now I can't! whats going on? all graphics drivers are installed, I cleanly installed the OS, cleanly installed sins (through impulse)...

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Reply #1 May 7, 2010 10:44:00 AM
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Have you installed a monitor driver as well? The default plug'n'play driver will generally not provide all the supported resolutions.

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Reply #2 May 8, 2010 3:45:49 PM
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I have not, however, if that was the problem, I dont think my problem would be limited to sins. Windows is running at 1600x1200, and any other game I try I can run at 1600x1200.

I've looked around and havent been able to find a driver for my monitor as it is really old. I do plan on getting a new monitor soon, but for right now I want to get this working. By the way, I tried all 3 versions/expansions of sins with the same result

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Reply #3 May 10, 2010 5:34:51 PM
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You can try manually changing the resolution in the settings files.  You can find them here:

C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting

You'll have to turn on hidden folders to see the 'AppData' folder.  The files you want are user.setting and diplomacy.user.setting

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Reply #4 May 15, 2010 7:55:17 PM
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That seemed to do it. And for some reason, all resolutions show up now. I think there might even be some my monitor isn't capable of.

Thanks, Ill let you know if I have any more issues

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