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Originally Posted by Hooston
You may not be using many pixels but they are THE BIGGEST DAMN PIXELS IN THE WORLD!!! Woohoo!!! 
These days 1024x768 is often used as a default resolution for setting things up when everything goes wrong, so it is widely supported.
Most SH3 mods are about graphical pulchritude, the gameplay in vanilla is not that much worse. I'd miss some of the extra ships and aeroplanes.
The trick to avoid the "cannot enable 3D" trap is:
The monitor AND the graphics card have to both support the resolution needed by your flavour of the game. Both the resolution e.g. 1920x1080 and the refresh rate e.g. 60Hz. Windows display settings or Nvidia settings will give you a list of available modes you can select manually. A modern HDMI monitor will talk nicely to the graphics card and agree the set of available modes, but some old monitors will sulk and give you a black screen when trying to use some modes offered by the computer.
For widescreen mods there is a d3d9.ini file in the directory with sh3.exe. This contains something like:
[ENGINE]
DisplayWidth=1366
DisplayHeight=768
Refreshrate=false
Note I have Refreshrate set to false - this turns off that part of the check and gives you a better chance
You can change these settings to match the hardware you have and/or the GUI mod you are running. If the hardware supports the settings in d3d9.ini you will get something displayed, though it may look a bit strange if it does not match the mod. |
Thank you for the input. Kind of a pain to keep changing the resolution but damn it sure looks good!
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