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What's wrong with 1280X1024?

February 23, 2006 10:56:05 PM from GalCiv II ForumsGalCiv II Forums
I'm curious to know why 1280X1024 was left out of the video resolutions. Dual monitor spanning is there at that resolution, of 2560X1024, but every window and the map centers on the center of that span, so it's really hard to look at. It seems a shame to have to use 1024X768...

... maybe that can be fixed next update?

Kris.
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Reply #1 February 23, 2006 11:08:17 PM
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1280 x 1024 was not left out, It might just not be being detected buy the game for some crazy reason. If you want to force it you can go to the prefs.ini file in the My Games\GalCiv2 folder. and Change it manualy.

PS. You can run at just about any resolution your card will push. If you run in a window you can even do crzay sizes. I have a rotateing moniture and I just for fun I pivited it and Ran the game in a window at 1200 wide buy 1900 high. The only real restiction is that you cant run below 1024x768 withough getting UI glitches.

Hope this helps.
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Reply #2 February 23, 2006 11:21:53 PM
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I'm curious to know why 1280X1024 was left out of the video resolutions.

It definitely showed up just fine for me. 1280x1024 is my LCD's native resolution, and the game picked it up just fine. IIRC, it was the 3rd or 4th resolution option the game presented me with.

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Reply #3 February 23, 2006 11:35:22 PM
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Im playing all the time at this reso. No problems for me.

btw great game Stardock, the best game ever made by human!!
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Reply #4 February 23, 2006 11:51:51 PM
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Can't ask for higher prase then That. Thanks
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Reply #5 February 24, 2006 12:41:42 AM
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I'm running at 1280x1024 without any problems, but I did notice it's farther down the list of resolutions you'd expect. I think the list switches to like 1350xsomething first before later going back to the 1280x1024 one.

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Reply #6 February 24, 2006 3:47:46 AM
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the best game ever made by human!!


Do you know if the Drengin make good games?
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Reply #7 February 24, 2006 5:50:50 AM
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I'm running at 1280x1024 at home with no problems and 1400x1050 with my laptop again with no problems. I can't praise you enough for making the resolution true dynamic!
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Reply #8 February 24, 2006 6:07:31 AM
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Thanks. Its nice to see someone notice a reletivly obscure feature.
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Reply #9 February 24, 2006 8:19:57 AM
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Yea, I don't have the option of 1280x1024, its weird considering most do.. I'll take mormegil's advice - thanks
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Reply #10 February 24, 2006 11:45:02 AM
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BugSiez, I think that the game not listing 1280x1024 might be becuse you have spanning enabled. Its kind of a pain but you might want to switch your monirers to just be Side by Side. With one as the primary. And see if that solves the problem.
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