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My screen is the wrong size... please help me

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Sprite, Feb 24, 2002.

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    A smarty-pants programmer friend was staying with me for a while and decided to "improve" the quality of the graphics on my computer. Now, whenever I launch a Black Isle game, the graphics are distorted and stretched out like a fun-house mirror, and the edges of the image are too large to fit on my monitor so that all I can see is the centre of the image.

    I've worked around this by launching IWD, BG etc in a small window so at least I can see the whole screen, but I can't seem to do that for PS:T. Anyway, I'm tired of trying to play in a little bitty window. My programmer friend is now in Mexico and I can't get hold of him to wring his neck and/or persuade him to undo the damage.

    Can anyone please tell me what he did and how to undo it?
     
    Sprite, Feb 24, 2002
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    Sounds like it's your screen resolution. Check the display properties of your desktop. If you look under the settings tab you can find out what resolution is set. I'm guessing it's set at 1024x768. Change it to 800x600 and see what happens. I could be wrong, it's happend before, but hopefuly that will do the trick.
     
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    If that doesn't help you might wanna try going into opions in the various games go to display and play with things in there(well don't play but change the resolution to what you need prolly 800x600)
     
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    Thanks for the advice: unfortunately it was already at 800 * 600 so that wasn't it. :(
     
    Sprite, Feb 24, 2002
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    No, the screen resolution should automatically scale itself to your screen. Problem sounds like your monitor's v-size/h-size. Do you have like.. a wheel-button on the front of your monitor, or a series of buttons for readjsting size, brightness etc? Try using those to resize and reposition the view.
     
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    YES! YES! That did it! Thank you so much. :D :D :D
     
    Sprite, Feb 24, 2002
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    Glad to help.
     
    Cannibal Penguin, Feb 24, 2002
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