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Title: Widescreen
Post by: FPF-Myriad on July 03, 2010, 10:11:07 am
Anybody had any success setting the game to a widescreen resolution?
Title: Re: Widescreen
Post by: KBFLordKrueg on July 06, 2010, 08:53:14 am
Not that I've played much SFC since I got my 24" monitor, but, I run it in 1920x1600 when I play. It does make some things slightly streched, but, after a while you don't even notice.
I run prety much all the games I play at that resolution with few if any issues.
Title: Re: Widescreen
Post by: FPF-DieHard on July 06, 2010, 12:50:00 pm
no can do - what i used to do was set the game in Windowed mode at 1600x1200 and leave the Teamspeak window in the side.
Title: Re: Widescreen
Post by: knightstorm on July 06, 2010, 07:33:58 pm
Not that I've played much SFC since I got my 24" monitor, but, I run it in 1920x1600 when I play. It does make some things slightly streched, but, after a while you don't even notice.
I run prety much all the games I play at that resolution with few if any issues.

I hate the distortion.  I just set the aspect ratio to 4:3 and live with a part of my screen not being used.
Title: Re: Widescreen
Post by: FPF-Myriad on July 07, 2010, 06:43:36 pm
I was hoping that there was a hack or something, but I can deal with running in 4:3, no big deal.
Title: Re: Widescreen
Post by: Dizzy on July 12, 2010, 08:50:38 pm
no can do - what i used to do was set the game in Windowed mode at 1600x1200 and leave the Teamspeak window in the side.

Windowed is the best way.
Title: Re: Widescreen
Post by: Age on July 15, 2010, 05:53:50 pm
no can do - what i used to do was set the game in Windowed mode at 1600x1200 and leave the Teamspeak window in the side.
How do you manage to do this anyway?
Title: Re: Widescreen
Post by: Dizzy on August 10, 2010, 04:49:18 pm
Toggle the settings in sfc ini txt file located in the main directory.
Title: Re: Widescreen
Post by: Age on August 10, 2010, 07:47:43 pm
I found out how to get it windowed and that is if you hit the windows key while in space dock only or at game selector screen.I did this in Win 7 not sure about XP.
Title: Re: Widescreen
Post by: Tus-XC on August 10, 2010, 11:11:08 pm
there are two other options

a)  Some monitors have settings that will automatically adjust it to the proper aspect ratio, ie if 4:3 on a 16:10 monitor it will be shown as 4:3 and not stretched

b)  Most video card drivers have the option to do the same as above
Title: Re: Widescreen
Post by: CaptJosh on August 18, 2010, 07:47:38 pm
Actually, you'll find it's usually the drivers for the video card, not the monitor.
Title: Re: Widescreen
Post by: Tus-XC on August 18, 2010, 10:22:01 pm
Actually, you'll find it's usually the drivers for the video card, not the monitor.

yea, but in my case, my monitor can do that through its onboard menu settings
Title: Re: Widescreen
Post by: CaptJosh on August 18, 2010, 11:20:33 pm
Must be a fairly nice monitor. Mine's a cheap Hanns-G. It just doesn't seem to have such an option.
Title: Re: Widescreen
Post by: knightstorm on August 18, 2010, 11:29:35 pm
My monitor has the option also.  Its an asus, and it wasn't particularly expensive.
Title: Re: Widescreen
Post by: CaptJosh on August 19, 2010, 08:37:46 am
Mine was supercheap, as retail goes. I could have waited a few days and gotten one from newegg that cost less, but I couldn't stand the second-hand CRT I had at the time a moment longer.
Title: Re: Widescreen
Post by: knightstorm on August 19, 2010, 12:23:30 pm
I could have waited a few days and gotten one from newegg that cost less.

That's where I got mine.  I chose to deal with my dying CRT for a few more days.
Title: Re: Widescreen
Post by: Dizzy on August 19, 2010, 08:44:19 pm
I found out how to get it windowed and that is if you hit the windows key while in space dock only or at game selector screen.I did this in Win 7 not sure about XP.

No dude thats called alt tabbing out. You need to open the ini txt file in the main directory. Set windowed to 0 or 1 and try it out then.
Title: Re: Widescreen
Post by: Age on August 20, 2010, 11:54:53 am
I found out how to get it windowed and that is if you hit the windows key while in space dock only or at game selector screen.I did this in Win 7 not sure about XP.
No dude thats called alt tabbing out. You need to open the ini txt file in the main directory. Set windowed to 0 or 1 and try it out then.
Where is that in OP?I know SFC3.
Title: Re: Widescreen
Post by: Dizzy on August 20, 2010, 12:30:28 pm
[3D]
wireframe=0
windowed=1
zbuffer=1
lowres=5
driver=0
backdrop=1
shipstacking=1
ambientlighting=0.3
luminancetextures=1
luminancedamagetextures=1

That is a partial list of the sfc.ini file located in the OP main directory. You can add vollyinfo and other things to this list. Search for sfc.ini for more info.
Title: Re: Widescreen
Post by: marstone on August 21, 2010, 10:43:20 am
Dizzy, what is the lowrez=5 equate to.  Mine is lowrez=3?  Does anyone know the settings?

Belay that, I see.  It is the setting for resolution, *messing with settings to see what changes*