Resolution Woes

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Hilo

This isn't strictly gametalk, but it's not a bug report either, and I couldn't find a general 'tech' forum.

I flipped my game res to 1280x960, restarted the game and my monitor had a stroke and won't display it in that res.

Naturally, I can't see the menus to switch it back to 1024.

Is there a way to switch the res from an ini file or something? Or am I gonna have to reinstall?

advTHANKSance
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I think i read that the resolution has to be greater than 1000x1000. You need to select a display mode where the horizontal and vertical pixel count exceeds 1000.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
1024x768 is the lowest res. That res. should be okay. If you need to modify your res out side of the game, you can try running the game in Windowed Mode, or you can modify the .ini file that has the display res. right in it. This should help fix your problem.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Yeah, I looked for an ini file and found these three:

package2.ini
Default.ini
Scheme.ini

...but none of them looked to be what I needed. Can you point me to the folder the one I need lives in, please?

Otherwise, how do I make it run in windowed-mode? Bearing in mind that I can't see any of the menus, because my monitor won't display the game in the res it's set to.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
My Documents\My Games\GalCiv 2 I believe is where galciv.ini is located. (or something similar, I don't have the game in front of me at work).
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Ahhh grand! That's got it.

Thanks for your help Bonscott.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
yes, another game that makes the unfortunate and Microsoft-esque decision to create an entirely seperate folder in the stupid-*ss "My Games" folder. I just love copying my mods and preferences back and forth after I figure out which folder the game prefers to find them in (CivIV users feel free to chip in here).
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Peronsally I prefer a system where "game", and "user prefs" are in separate locations. In particular, anything that doesn't change in one place, anything that does in another.

The reason why I prefer this is that it makes backing up my prefs/saved games etc easier, because they are all in one place and I don't have to separate it from the files I get from a standard install.

The second reason is that it is possible (and easier) (theoretically) to keep the game files "safe" from being altered (especially .exe files if you want to protect from viruses), but games saves and preferences that need to be changed can.

However, I do agree that since windows doesn't have a standard for this (or rather it does, but it is poorly defined and no one follows it anyway), that it does get confusing when going from one game to another.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
yes, I agree. I was too harsh. However, since most people don't KNOW that their games are putting important files there, it can be annoying...