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How to get display mode turned down?

October 8, 2008 9:08:46 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

I just purchased this game with great expectations from online and G4TV review, but as usual I am having Tech issues with a game I wanna play

My Comp. is:

Compaq Presario V6000 with Vista Premium Home Edition-SP1

2.0 Ghz AMD Turion64

1.0g Memory

Geforcego 6150, 256mg Video card

All my drivers are up to date (I play WoW so I keep them up so it runs good)

 

Here are my 2 issues....

#1 are sound issues.  I get crackling sounds/Music whenever I am zoomed into a planet, large space object-ship.  I even get this during the menu screen where there is a planet rotating in the background.  I had similar issues when I first installed WoW, but those were resolved with graphics tweeks.  I have tried changing all the settings to low, but it still does not solve the issue.  So far the game works fine, just the sound issue is annoying

#2 is how to set the resolution size? I only have 2 display modes active in the menu options.  I am currently running at 1280x800 at 60mHz.  This is not even one of the options for me in the menu.  I am pretty sure I could resolve my sound issues if I could turn down the screen resolution.  I tried to follow another post about editing a file to change the resolution, but I could not find the file it talked about to edit. 

If anyone can please help I would appreciate it.  I can't stand to run games with problems and will probably end up deleting the game if I cannot get it working well.  Don't wanna do it cause the game looks great, so if you can help, please do so!

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Reply #1 October 8, 2008 9:37:33 AM
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#2 is how to set the resolution size? I only have 2 display modes active in the menu options.  I am currently running at 1280x800 at 60mHz.  This is not even one of the options for me in the menu.  I am pretty sure I could resolve my sound issues if I could turn down the screen resolution.  I tried to follow another post about editing a file to change the resolution, but I could not find the file it talked about to edit. 

The file that you'll need to modify is in C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting\user.setting

AppData is a hidden folder by default, so you'll have to make sure you have Show hidden files & folders enabled. There you can manually set the resolution to whatever you want.

As for the sound issue, I remember posts about it but I don't remember all the possible solutions. I remember one recommendation from IC to turn off Bloom in the graphics options. Also make sure your game is updated to 1.05 (or 1.095 beta). Quite a few things changed in the patches (1.095 especially optimizes the engine for better performance on lower-end computers), so it's possible your sound problem resolves itself, who knows!

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