(Win) Resolution Not Restored

[Mad_Big_Sausage]

Darwinia, when exited, doesn't restore my resolution. I run my desktop at 1024X768 and Darwinia at 800X600.

Starting up Darwinia, I hear the click of the res change from 1024X768 to 800X600 and the game runs fine.
When I exit Darwinia, however, my res stays at 800X600 instead of reverting back to 1024X768 and I have to manually restore my res to see my desktop.

No crash or blackbox, just hastle.

There is no problem if I run Darwinia and my desktop at the same res. If there is a difference though my desktop res isn't restored. It stays at whatever Darwinia was set to.

I've tested this for all legit res combinations and it happens for all of them.

[elDiablo]

I run Darwinia at 1280x1024, 1024x768, and 800x600... Thing is, it doesnt go "full" fullscreen if its not the resolution of my desktop (1280x1024), but its not windowed either... It looks like fullscreen, but is a box the size of the resolution Darwinia is running at in the top left of my screen... Will take screenshot later.

PS - didn't want to make a new topic, so thanks there Sausage man!

[Soulkeeper]

I have the box in the corner of the screen too. Maybe it is something that IV have not set up, yet.

Oh, and didn't you guys ever get in Uplink, whenever you exited from that when it ran at less than your desktop, you would get the problems sausage described?

[rob_quill]

Yeh...I had that problem with Uplink, although not with Darwinia. About the not being full screen if it's less than desktop resolution, I'm sure thats been mentioned before...

Rob

[Mad_Big_Sausage]

I never had this problem with Uplink. Just Darwinia.

I also never get the "box in the corner" problem either.

If I enter any illegit resolutions I get the error:
____________________________________

Fatal Error

Couldn't set fullscreen mode of YYYxZZZ
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It's not really harming the game itself, just causing hastle after playing. I like my desktop at 1024x768 and Darwinia runs a lot smoother as 800x600.

[Phydaux]

Darwinia seems to play silly-buggers on different people's systems. If I enter a valid resolution for darwinia, my monitor resolution changes so Darwinia is fullscreen.

But if I enter a silly resolution, like 1000x400, only the top left 1000x400 pixels of my screen get filled. Unless I select the windowed option, then it's windowed, and centered

See examples:
- Windowed
- Fullscreen

I run XP at a resolution of 1024x768 and I usually run Darwinia at 800x600, and it always re-sets my resolution when exiting.

Even after a crash my resolution is re-set. So I think this maybe more of an OS/hardware problem than a darwinia problem (I could be totally wrong tho )

Darwinia also runs if I set the resolution to 0x0 The sounds are there and everything. It's totally unplayable tho

[Soulkeeper]

Somehow I think IV will be building in an options menu for resolution that does not allow you to select 0x0

[Darksun]

I havn't noticed any problems, but I run Darwinia at the same resolution as my desktop. 1400x1050 pwns

[LLamaBoy]

I've also had this problem after testing on a Win98 machine, using a Radeon 7000 chipset graphics card.

[Mad_Big_Sausage]

So there's a problem with 98/ME.

Anyone else with a different OS get this?


In case it helps:

CpuModel: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.50GHz
Primary sound device: SoundMAX Digital Audio
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 100/200
Operating System: Windows ME

[da_zeg]

Darwinia also runs if I set the resolution to 0x0 The sounds are there and everything. It's totally unplayable tho

What was the FPS like?

EDIT:

I run XP at 1024*768 and any res lower than that just fills the top left hand X x Y pixels.

[Phydaux]

Darwinia also runs if I set the resolution to 0x0 The sounds are there and everything. It's totally unplayable tho

What was the FPS like?

Fraps says about 25-35FPS

If I run it at 1x1 the FPS is about 75.

[Mad_Big_Sausage]

Fraps says about 25-35FPS

If I run it at 1x1 the FPS is about 75.

That's odd...........hmmmm......

That shouldn't be the case, should it?

[Mad_Big_Sausage]

Same problem with Beta3 as mentioned at the top.
No differences.

[Dakkon]

I'm using Windows 98 and i get the same problem with the resolution not restoring.

Must be a Win 98 problem.