(RESOLVED) Windowed Mode Resizing Fails

Short Version: It Doesn't

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I've been tinkering with trying to get Sins running in a nicely sized window on my widescreen monitor so that I can have my lovely IMs and possibly even Stardock IRC running nearby but still accessible while I'm playing, but -- and this is the inevitable bug report -- nothing I do seems to be able to resize the window from the default. That includes editing the user.setting file directly and changing the values to:

WINDOWEDWIDTH 1680
WINDOWEDHEIGHT 1050

So, looks like there's either a glitch, a bug, or I'm just an idiot who can't set a value. Any or all of these might, in fact, be the case. :CONGRAT:
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Did you set the IsWindowed (or something similar, sorry don't have it in front of me atm)
to TRUE?

Notice that you are setting the WINDOWED width... if you're not running it in windowed mode, this will have no effect. I believe there is another setting for width and height in regular (full-screen) mode, although I couldn't tell you off the top of my head what it's called.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Did you set the IsWindowed (or something similar, sorry don't have it in front of me atm)
to TRUE?

Notice that you are setting the WINDOWED width... if you're not running it in windowed mode, this will have no effect. I believe there is another setting for width and height in regular (full-screen) mode, although I couldn't tell you off the top of my head what it's called.
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I did. Or rather, did so in-game in the Options->Video settings screen with the check-box. I should see if user.settings has an equivalent and see if that makes a difference.

*time passes as Alex checks*

Tested, as I suspected it seems to be ignoring those changes altogether. When I looked at the file, ISWINDOWED was FALSE. I set it to TRUE, saved it, and started Sins. I knew right quick it was ignoring those settings since it started full-screen. No difference in behaviour even after I changed the Windowed setting in-game, either; my suspicion is it's not even consulting or updating user.settings because nothing is changing in there

And, yep, I want to run it Windowed with some extra screen real-estate. Actually, I'd really love if I could do something that World of Warcraft does, which is run "windowed" in a window the size of the desktop with no frame borders, so it looks as if it's running full-screen but tab-switching or popping over to my second monitor (yup, I'm one of them crazed dual-monitor setup people) to answer/write an IM/Skype call doesn't change anything, it just lets me.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Did you have the beta? You may be editing the old user.setting file in the old location.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Did you have the beta? You may be editing the old user.setting file in the old location.
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Had the beta, but I uninstalled it completely before doing the retail install. Path I'm using is "C:\Documents and Settings\Alexander Williams\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting" and as far as I can tell that's the one I'm supposed to be using, but I, as ever, reserve the right to be terribly, horribly wrong.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Ironically, I've found another Settings directory under "C:\Documents and Settings\Alexander Williams\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting" ... And that at least seems to have the VideoIsWindowed setting set to TRUE.

That said, setting the bits to:

VideoFullScreenWidth 1680
VideoFullScreenHeight 1050
VideoWindowedWidth 1600
VideoWindowedHeight 1000

in the settings there WORKS.

So, thank you for helping me find my bottom with both hands and a flashlight. :)
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
Good stuff!