2018? Tom was way late to the party.
If you had watched it, you’d know he refrained to publish it for 11 years, because streaming hadn’t caught on.
So for those of us less technically inclined, what would be the fix? Video card is Geforce 1060 TI, btw
Can’t help much, I know next to nothing about Windows!
You could check your monitor’s manual to check if there is a setting about auto cropping or such for 4:3 resolutions.
Although all this shouldn’t be an issue if you run the game in a window as Vic suggested. You are in trouble, I think.
Edit: I checked a bit, and it seems you can’t crope the way you’re experiencing it from Windows itself, so maybe it’s really related to the way your monitor scales the game?
Hey Sonoftgb,
Sorry about this. Director is wacky sometimes for no good reason. Are you saying that you get the window, but the display inside is not aligned properly. Like it’s to big for the small window and is getting clipped?
I take it you are running it in Admin mode?
Also, you can try running the full screen version and see how it looks. Maybe lower your display resolution first. That will be a pain but might help. The full screen .exe is in the steam folder that gets installed in Steam/SteamApps/Common/etc
Hope this helps.
Vic -
Yes and yes. I tried the full screen .exe, and that was cropped even worse, on the left and right sides.
I could try dropping the resolution and see if that helps.
And Left_Empty, it’s a laptop so no monitor manual to speak of.
I’ve tried several different resolutions and whether full screen or windowed it’s cut off. Rats.
Guilty!
I’m thinking, something very stupid: could it be related to the DPI settings thing of Windows 10?
Go to System/Display settings, and make sure your scale under scale and layout is at 100% (here, at 150%, it exhibits the kind of glitches you are seeing, is why I am asking).
The problem is that all the fonts of the system will show smaller and might get hard to read, especially on a laptop screen. But in my experience, higher scaling can lead to some glitches in games.
It might be greyed out: here to be able to modify it to test my theory, I had to type “DPI” in the search bar on the left, and click on “Make everything bigger” to tweak it.
That’s it! I was having problems with my vision last year and had it set to 150%. Reducing it to the recommended 125% solved the problem.
Thanks
Just noticed that the game is set in 2025… right around the corner!
Awesome! Talking about me of course :O
Now in the Steam sale for a mere £5.03 (-30%).
I messed around trying to get this to run full screen for about an hour and gave up, guess I’ll just play it in the small windowed mode it pops up in by default.
There is a separate executable that allows it to run full screen. Director!
Yepper, saw that, ran it and it just ran full screen with a huge black area, the actual game space was exactly the same.
This is set by your display settings usually. You can tell them to stretch, stretch while keeping the aspect ratio or center. I use stretch while keep aspect ratio.
It works here, but I know that sometimes hardware combination can lead to frustration on that front (for instance your monitor may force the stretching incorrectly, happened to me with one).
Thanks for the suggestion, I messed a bit more with the settings on the exe file itself and got it to work.
Played about 10 turns, got some units dead and learned first and foremost I’ve no idea what I’m doing and look forward to figuring this one out.
It is well worht it, as it is a tremendous game.
Reconnaissance is everything!
Bill Harris wrote a great multipart guide, that helped me understand the game’s (obtuse) interface.
To sum it up: a bunch of essential actions are hidden in right clicking that will only work at specific points.
The link is to the last entry, as it lists all the previous ones.