Resolution Problem
by Cameron Zemek · in Torque Game Builder · 11/18/2007 (8:17 pm) · 12 replies
I running Windows XP SP2 on laptop that has resolution of 1680x1050 and when I load Torque Game Builder it changes resolution. But the problem is the screen is being cropped. I can't see the menu bar for example.
#2
11/29/2007 (8:16 pm)
If the screen is being cropped, that's probably a matter of your display settings. Go into the preferences files and make it so it'll fit in your desktop resolution right. It's not so much a problem with TGB as it is with the preferences you're using. I had laptop issues to me with 1440x900 resolution and it was a huge pain when something that expected 1280x1024 in Windowed mode opened.
#3
I've looked through .cs files until I thought my eyes were going to fall out but all I've seen in an xml file that mentioned resolution and colour depth. I changed that and still had no joy.
11/30/2007 (2:40 am)
Thanks for the advice but what preference files am I looking for?I've looked through .cs files until I thought my eyes were going to fall out but all I've seen in an xml file that mentioned resolution and colour depth. I changed that and still had no joy.
#4
11/30/2007 (7:58 am)
I'll have to find it when I get home. In the meantime, are you running it windowed or full screen?
#5
11/30/2007 (11:02 am)
Full screen.
#6
11/30/2007 (11:43 am)
Oh, jeez. That's a bit of a pickle, because now I'm not sure without actually sitting in front of the software and trying to emulate that problem. What happens when you put it in Windowed mode with Alt-Enter?
#7
11/30/2007 (4:24 pm)
It won't go into windowed mode :-(
#8
Would still love to get 1.5 working though.
11/30/2007 (4:46 pm)
I just uninstalled 1.5.1 and went back to 1.1.3 and it works fine. I'm a bit mystified why the same options aren't available for changing resolution and window/full-screen mode.Would still love to get 1.5 working though.
#9
Did you look in C:\Documents and Settings\Your Username\Application Data\GarageGames\TorqueGameBuilder\CommonPrefs.cs ? You could probably get it to work from there so it fits properly on your computer. It's somewhat hard to find that file, but check it out.
11/30/2007 (5:37 pm)
Yeah, I would like to hear about you having it running. I dropped my resolution down to 1680x1050 and was having problems as well, but they may be related to window locations, so it's an innacurate test.Did you look in C:\Documents and Settings\Your Username\Application Data\GarageGames\TorqueGameBuilder\CommonPrefs.cs ? You could probably get it to work from there so it fits properly on your computer. It's somewhat hard to find that file, but check it out.
#10
12/01/2007 (7:41 am)
Thanks, matey. I'll take a look when I'm not quite so hung over :-/
#11
It's been a mad week but I eventually got round to trying out your suggestion and it worked a treat (after persuading explorer to display hidden directories).
12/09/2007 (7:13 am)
Thanks, Jason.It's been a mad week but I eventually got round to trying out your suggestion and it worked a treat (after persuading explorer to display hidden directories).
#12
It's half fixed. I can see the whole of the editor now but when I alt-tab out and then in again, the menu bar disappears.
I've tried changing $pref::Video::fullScreen = "1"; to "0" but it swaps it back every time I start the editor.
12/09/2007 (11:23 am)
Hmmmm!It's half fixed. I can see the whole of the editor now but when I alt-tab out and then in again, the menu bar disappears.
I've tried changing $pref::Video::fullScreen = "1"; to "0" but it swaps it back every time I start the editor.
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