Fullscreen with width to height ratio of 1.25

[CocoNut]

Hello !

I'm trying to set full screen resolution of 800 x 640 by editing openttd.cfg. The game starts in windowed mode and I get error when trying switch to fullscreen. I've standard 19" LCD with native resolution of 1280 x 1024 , that has w/h ratio of 1.25. Playing with 1280 x 1024 res is not healthy for my eyes as everything is so small. I can set fullscreen with 800 x 600 but screen is out of proportion ( h/w ratio 1.33 ) Is there any trick that could help me to keep that "magic" 1.25 ratio ? I'm using r14369 and 0.6.2.

regards

Coco

[PhilSophus]

So, obviously your video driver does not support this resolution. You don't expect OpenTTD to do the interpolation to the LCD's native resolution, do you?

BTW: For such questions it usually helps to write what OS and video card/chipset you have. We don't have crystal balls

[CocoNut]

So, obviously your video driver does not support this resolution. You don't expect OpenTTD to do the interpolation to the LCD's native resolution, do you?

BTW: For such questions it usually helps to write what OS and video card/chipset you have. We don't have crystal balls

I missed the fact that OpenTTD is multisystem game , sorry I'm using Win XP SP3 with Ati X800 GTO running on 7.5 Cat drivers.

[athanasios]

Don't expect too much with XP. I have similar issues, which I didn't have with 9x series. There is a commercial program that adds custom resolutions, but it doesn't prove very successful under XP. This from my experience. It gave me specific custom resolutions under 9x but failed under XP.

[SirkoZ]

Hello !

I'm trying to set full screen resolution of 800 x 640 by editing openttd.cfg. The game starts in windowed mode and I get error when trying switch to fullscreen. I've standard 19" LCD with native resolution of 1280 x 1024 , that has w/h ratio of 1.25. Playing with 1280 x 1024 res is not healthy for my eyes as everything is so small. I can set fullscreen with 800 x 600 but screen is out of proportion ( h/w ratio 1.33 ) Is there any trick that could help me to keep that "magic" 1.25 ratio ? I'm using r14369 and 0.6.2.

regards

Coco

Since the difference between 1.25 and 1.33 is small (1280x1024 and 1280 x 960 --> 64 pixels = 6.25% of height) you should be able to set your LCD monitor not to stretch every 3:4 resolution to 5:4. Search your monitor menu for such function.
Other solution would be to try to edit your Catalyst driver's .ini file and manually adding the 800x640 in. What version of Catalyst are you using by the way?

[CommanderZ]

Run in windowed mode and maximalize the window. The game will decide the resolution automatically then.

[SirkoZ]

Run in windowed mode and maximalize the window. The game will decide the resolution automatically then.

Note that the thread author started this thread because everything is too small in default resolution (for him 1280x1024) hence running OpenTTD windowed won't do nothing to help.

[CocoNut]

What version of Catalyst are you using by the way?

Catalyst 7.5 without Catalyst Control Centre

[SirkoZ]

I see - I run it without CCC too.
Anyhow - either check if you can disable resolution "stretching" on your monitor or add that 800x640 in your unpacked driver's ini - here's how (I have 7.7 unpacked to experiment with - I use 8.7 though):
The ini file is under Unpacked_driver\XP_INF (CX_xxxxx.inf), however after checking it out - the resolutions are somehow coded in there so it would be best if head over to http://www.rage3d.com and ask on their forum, I'm sure someone will know how to add that custom resolution in.