Tricking Game Into Thinking your Monitor Has Different Resolution

Started 10 Mar 2019

by Chysil

in Support Center

So, after a resent crash, my user.dat file went boom and I had to reset everything back, but I ran into a problem.

Originally I played on windows mode, but to avoid the tiny text on a 4k monitor, I somehow set my full screen windowed to be 2560 x 1440.... then when I selected windowed mode with 1920 x 1200 it'd be much larger than 1920 x 1200 cause it effectively was scaled.

Mainly this increased the size of the text, which is almost unreadable at 4k.

Anyone know how I might get this back? Tried a few diff things but nothing seems to work. Any ideas?

Mon 11 Mar 2019 10:16 AM by Chysil

Note... it may have also involved the windows 10 scaling suddenly not working, so if any know why that would occur, that might be it.

Mon 11 Mar 2019 1:14 PM by Ashok

Windows 10 scaling cannot be applied to DX9 games, unless they offer that option; pretty much no games have that. DAoC does not either.
Also you cannot set a resolution for "Borderless Window" (fake fullscreen); fake fullscreen always takes the desktop resolution - no way to change that.

You have 2 ways to go for your situation.
1) Set the desktop resolution lower (to 1k or 2k) and use borderless fullscreen.
2) Use classic fullscreen and set the resolution in-game to whatever you like. You won't have instant desktop swapping in this 'solution'.

Wed 13 Mar 2019 11:11 AM by Chysil

I don't know how I got it working before, and it works on live. Tried a few different thing, still can't get it working.

Wed 13 Mar 2019 4:53 PM by darthenron

I found this guide that might help to add the different resolution profiles to your windows mode options. Maybe your profile got goofed up?

http://www.postcount.net/forum/showthread.php?96355-Guide-Run-DAoC-in-windowed-mode-at-a-custom-resolution

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