3440 x 1440. Title bar? No, I don’t think so. I believe I get black bars on the sides, but it’s full screen so no window edges or title bar.
I don’t recall doing anything with the Startup.ini file, but if it helps here it is:
'Distant Worlds startup settings
’ to enable a setting remove single quotes from start of line
'To play in Windowed mode set screenwidth and screenheight below
’ width must be at least 1024, height must be at least 768. Width and height cannot be greater than current screen resolution
'SCREENWIDTH 1024
'SCREENHEIGHT 768
'To increase speed of hyperdrives in the game set hyperdrivespeed below
’ this setting is a multiplier for the default speeds. Must be between 1.0 and 3.0
’ note that this setting only applies to new games - it will not alter hyperdrive speeds in previously saved games
'HYPERDRIVESPEED 1.0
playmovie 0
As you can see, everything but playmovie is commented out.
Thanks. I’ll take a look at my xml file and compare it to yours.
BTW, I set the scan line order to “unspecified” in the XML file and put in the 0/0 ratio where indicated for optimal frame rate, but the game still runs at about 60 fps (even though I have a G-sync monitor). Even setting it as unlimited in the game options menu doesn’t seem to change that.
But I did get rid of the title bar by commenting out those lines in the startup.ini file, thanks.
For folks having ui/font issues due to high resolution displays someone posted this over at the matrix forums. I don’t know how much it helps, but worth a shot I guess if it has been a pain point.
After I upgraded to a 4k monitor dwu became almost unplayable due to the tiny font size and couldn’t find any fixes online. Then it struck me its probably a scaling issue so I tried disabling scaling in the compatibility tab and bang it worked!
Now the ui looks just like it does on the optimal resolution without having to resort to changing the desktop res which caused the game to look blurry and unreadable even if it enlarged the ui.
My method was to make a shortcut of the exe out of the steam folder to the taskbar then shift right click to access properties and go to the compatibility tab.
Check ‘run this program as an administrator’ then click the change high dpi settings button.
Once on that screen check the ‘override high dpi scaling behavior’ and set the drop down menu to ‘system(enhanced)’ and then apply the settings.
Now when you use the shortcut to start dwu the ui should be normally scaled and clear depending on your displays scaling hardware.
Enjoy! !
At the start of the year, a 2020 release seemed extremely certain. While we did make very good progress this year, we are still in alpha and will not release in 2020. In December, I’ll be able to reveal much more of the game and talk about our release plans in more detail.
Regards,
Erik
We’ll see what comes of it, but hopefully that means we are finally getting close.
Being Matrix, sadly, that could possibly even be optimistic. My thought is probably 2nd half of next year if we are lucky. Anything before that would be awesome.
I would hope that Slitherine is actually dedicating a decent amount of resources to the game since the original was well liked. A solid DW2 release would probably sell much better than most of their catalog by quite a bit.
He says they’re still in alpha (been there over a year now) so I don’t think they’re anywhere remotely near a release. If beta takes as long as alpha has then I’m afraid we may be looking at 2022 or later. I sure hope not, though.
Latest word from our marketing folks is that with all the other releases and promotions in December, we may wait a bit longer on the big reveal just to make sure it gets enough visibility. However, I’ll be talking a bit about DW2 and the timing of that reveal towards the end of the stream in this event:
Unfortunately it has gotten to the point where I think it is vapourware. It’s been incredibly low profile. And that’s a shame because NO ONE loved distant worlds more than me. Not even @BrianRubin.
I still have all the boxed versions including all the DLCs. Turns out some are still mint in box (with the plastic wrapping). I just used the provided download code for the game.
