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Graphics Question

ColJasmine

By ColJasmine,
Posted on: 2009-04-19 19:39 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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I just restarted my account after being gone for a while. I had to reinstall it after losing my harddrive. Now, all my toons are short and squat. I've got the graphics set to the dimensions of my widescreen monitor, but they still look short and squat. I've tried to change the setting in game, but it doesn't change anything. Any advice?

 

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I'm betting that although you have your graphics set to the dimensions of the monitor, you don't have your desktop set to that resolution.

First set your computer desktop to the screen resolution. Then in game change your resolution to match desktop and select apply. Then without closing the options window quit to desktop and restart the game. Your graphics should be fine at this point.

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I have a related issue. I set my destkop resolution to 1680 x 1050, but when I try to select that setting in the Graphics tab of the game, it will pop back to 1024x768 when I hit Apply Now.

Any thoughts? I can play, but my world is short and squat.

 

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Use TweakCoh. Otherwise there's some "trick" involved since it isn't intuitively obvious what to do to get a resolution change to stick.

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I'm betting that although you have your graphics set to the dimensions of the monitor, you don't have your desktop set to that resolution.

First set your computer desktop to the screen resolution. Then in game change your resolution to match desktop and select apply. Then without closing the options window quit to desktop and restart the game. Your graphics should be fine at this point.

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I've done this. The Windows setting is 1440x900. In game, the graphics are set at 1024x768. I set it to 1440x900 and hit "apply." I get a message saying I need to "quit and restart to see my graphics resolution changes." I restart the game and...

Well, how about that...it worked that time. Already did it once. Don't know what I did different that time. Oh, well. Thx for the help. Much appreciated.