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zookman
11 Oct 2007, 13:28
It's fine during gameplay... it expands to full native res then..
but in the menus before... its very small and a little hard to read..
when i say small.. i mean it takes up a small portion of my screen and the surrounding area is black.
ideas or solutions?
thanks
Zookman

KRD
11 Oct 2007, 13:44
The problem is that the WA frontend is so ancient it runs under the 640×480 resolution at 256 colours. I suspect your LCD monitor doesn't support any resolutions other than its native one and makes a mess of things when forced to. I'm quite sure no easy fix exists for this, but it's not impossible someone on these forums has found a messy way around the problem; I seem to remember something about a program called PowerStrip, although that could be a pretty complicated procedure. Here's a link anyway: http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm
For what it's worth, there are plans of rebuilding WA's frontend from scratch by the game's two current developers. The plans aren't finalised yet so it'll probably take a while before it happens, but at least you now know someone at the top is aware of this. :)

franpa
11 Oct 2007, 14:07
your monitor settings should allow you to resize the screen for the modes that W:A uses.

zookman
11 Oct 2007, 15:39
well... i've recently done a fresh install of XP
it worked fine before...
only now i have this problem :|
haha!
i found a "Full screen (no border)" checkbox in my chipset settings
prob sorted :)

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