View Full Version : WA opens in small screen
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
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. :)
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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