Hi there,
I've recently installed the Mac OSX client. My computer is a Mac Pro with 3 monitors. 1920x1200x2 and 1920x1080. I'll start with what my goals are and then follow up with what I've tried to accomplish these goals. I should also note that I have extensive experience configuring and running City of Heroes (somewhere between Issues 2 and 3) and World of Warcraft under Transgaming's Cedega engine, which appears to be identical in configuration to Cider.
I would like to be able to play CoH at 1920x1200 resolution on my "main" monitor without it being obscured or positioned according to the menu bar and the dock and without my other two monitors being blacked out.
If this isn't possible, I'd like to be able to play at 1920x1080 window size or any arbitrary window size. This will allow me to still use the majority of my resolution and be able to see the contents of my other monitors.
(At this point I'd like to point out the difficulties I had in changing the resolution within the game and having this change persist upon launching the application again).
After discovering that Command + Enter would put me into Window mode, I tried this. I found that my game running at 1920x1200 ran just as well, but the window decorations as well as the menubar forced part of the window to be rendered below the bottom of the visible area. As well, the OSX dock protruded into the game.
I then tried changing the in-game resolution to something lower and switching to Windowed Mode. This is the closest I've come to success. Unfortunately, there wasn't a full and proper range of resolutions that was offered to me, so I ended up with 1600x1000.
With a 1600x1000 window, I tried resizing it. Manually dragging the corners didn't work. I discovered the /screen slash command (that conflicts itself when you type inproper arguments to it). I was able to use /screen 1680 1050 to make changes but unfortunately the window didn't resize to accommodate the increased resolution.
I also tried adding a "Desktop" = "1920x1080" line to the [x11drv] section of the config file found in the Application Bundle itself. This change didn't get saved as I'm sure it was overwritten by the CoH updater. I am currently at work and have added the "Desktop" = "1920x1080" line to the config file in ~/Library/Preferences/City of Heroes Preferences/
Boot Camp became not an option once I realized that the graphics performance in OSX was superior. So if anyone has gotten this working in a similar way or has tried, I'd really appreciate some feedback.
Thanks,
Jackson
