CptGreenwood

Join Date 03/2003

GalCiv2 setup screen resolution

Hi,
I have a very special problem and hope, someone can help.
After betatesting some weeks my desktop pc is broken. So I want to continue playing on my notebook.
There's the problem: My notebook has a wide-screen display (1024 x 600) and I can't get GC2 to work.
If I choose fullscreen mode the screen remains black (think, game is crashed), if I choose windowed mode the screen is cut off at the bottom and the mouse coordinates don't fit with the screen graphics (I have to move and click the mouse four centimeters below the quit button to quit).
Please... is there a way to customize resolution to 1024x600, maybe not with the UI but in a kind of config file? Otherwise betatest is over for me until I've got a new desktop pc.

Greetz,
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kryo

Join Date 05/2003

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AFAIK, 1024x768 is the absolute minimum it is designed for. It should work with just about any resolution above that, but not below. Looks like you're out of luck.

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Any Computer monitor About from 2001 should theotricly support it But means some things actualyl any moniter could it just would hurt the moniter a bit recomend to update it. GC2,HL2,EE2,TS2 many other 2s are HUGE ASS GAMES that take super graphs and are very popular Cept GC2 that is...

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I think you need grammar lessons. Is English a second language for you? Your sentences are garbled.

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He is having problems setting up his desktop resolution to work with the game. I highly doubt that Galv2 supports Wide Screen. Check your desktop properties and see if it will do 1024x768 32 bit, normal mode. It should have the ability to work at that resolution. If not contact the manufacture and see if they have a utility that will turn off the Wide Screen 16:9 resolution

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kryo

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If not contact the manufacture and see if they have a utility that will turn off the Wide Screen 16:9 resolution

They may have such a thing, but in this case it would be completely useless. As he said, 1024x600 is the standard resolution for his notebook (probably a 9" 16:9 screen model such as Fujitsu makes). Meaning that the screen is only 600 pixels high, and is physically incapable of displaying anything more than that.

He may have one option however that I hadn't considered earlier. If his notebook's video adaptor supports higher resolutions than the display is capable (possible but unlikely since he said he got a blank screen only when he tried in FS mode) of and he has an external VGA port, he can connect the notebook to a normal monitor and play that way. Though on a compact notebook such as that it may not have a VGA port, or it may require a dock (which he may not have). If he can somehow do that though, it should be possible to run GC2 without problems.

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Could be but I doubt it. I have numerous friends with the 16:9 widescreen that can be setup for 1024x768, there is also a utility for XP called ReForce that locks the REGISTRY entrys for refresh rates to ones you display can use. Dell I believe is the only notebook manufacture that doesn't allow the changing of the display from the widescreen to normal display, but all ATI and NVIDIA have the control in thier control panel for disabling the widscreen setting for normal displays, programs, games, etc. have a compact notebook, and support most of the name brand notebooks, I have yet to find one that cannot be changed from the widescreen format to a normal display. If he is using a notebook with the widescreen the min refresh for that screen would be around 75 to 100 Hz

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My laptop is widescreen and it does work fine in widescreen; GalCiv can run in any resolution that is at least 1024x768. However, I find it extremely odd that your laptop runs at 1024x600, since 600 isn't a power of 2. Can you increase the resolution to 1280 x 800 without it having to edge scroll?

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kryo

Join Date 05/2003

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I find it extremely odd that your laptop runs at 1024x600, since 600 isn't a power of 2

Neither are 640, 480, 800, 768, 1152, 864, 1280, 720, or 960. In fact, 1024 is the only standard resolution height or width that *is* a power of 2 that I can think of

As I noted above, he likely has a sub-notebook with a maximum resolution of 1024x600 on a 9 or 10 inch screen (a quick google for 1024x600 notebook turns up a number of ones just like this). The only way he'd be able to get higher than that is with an external monitor, or if the notebook supports scrolling of larger resolutions within that size (yuck).

I don't doubt that other widescreen notebooks can do 4:3 letterboxed resolutions, but those would be full sized (not sub-notebooks) models with higher native resoultions (such as 1280x800). And if his did support higher resolutions, he'd have had his desktop set to one by default (as anything else would look horrible) and GC2 would be just fine.

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Neither are 640, 480, 800, 768, 1152, 864, 1280, 720, or 960. In fact, 1024 is the only standard resolution height or width that *is* a power of 2 that I can think of

Ah, you're right. Sorry, was thinking in terms of textures rather than devices.

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Hi,
my notebook is a JVC subnotebook. It's screen is just capable of diplaying 600 pixel verticaly, so if playing a game it must be adapt itself to any given resolution or must be playable with 800 x 600 pixel.
For GC2 it won't work, I think. Bad luck.

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kryo

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I've looked up JVC widescreen subnotebook models, and confirmed that it should be capable of higher resolutions--if you use an external monitor. However, this will require that you have the port replicator for your notebook. If you do have one, then you can just plug the monitor from your desktop into the notebook, and should be able to play just fine at 1024x768 that way.

If you don't have a port replicator or VGA adaptor though (from what I've seen the notebook and its accessories are only available via import from Japan and can be quite costly), you are indeed going to be unable to play GC2 on the notebook.

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