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Resolution Problems with Vista?

FloatingFatMan

By FloatingFatMan,
Posted on: 2009-02-16 08:56 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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I bought City of Heroes a week ago to play with my friend and he managed to set it up fine running it on xp but i installed it on my pc with vista 32 bit and when i load up the game i only get half of what appears to be the log in screen. Is this a common problem with vista or is there any way i can sort this problem out. thanks

 

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From the updater, tick the "Safe Mode" option. The game will start up in minimal graphics settings and you can then adjust them to your liking.

Note: There is a "bug" in resolution changing. To make it stick properly, select the desired resolution in the options and click "Apply". The resolution selection will go back to what it was. Select it AGAIN, but do NOT click apply. Just exit the game back to desktop and reload. That should fix it for you.

If it still doesn't work, make sure your video drivers are updated. The stock Vista ones are NOT good enough.

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thanks, I'll try that now

 

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Another possibility may be if you are trying to run your desktop at an unsupported resolution setting and have CoX set up to use desktop resolution, probably only an issue for some of the widescreen settings.

Other less likely possibilities
I presume you are seeing all of the game window on the screen - its not just pushed half off of the viewable area when set up to run windowed.
May also be set to span multiple windows or have a virtual desktop which is larger than the physical one.

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