Resolution allowed when using laptop screen + TV screen

[Joseignacio]

Hello, I use to play sometimes with both my laptop screen plus a TV 4K screen.

I have no idea on configuring resolutions.

I connected it with an hdmi, and in the old times it gave me a suboptimal resolution. I thought the reason could be the graphics card of that older laptop, which could be old, damaged by overheating, or with old drivers.

However now I have a newer computer (1 to 2 yerars old), a gamer one. And the resolution at the TV keeps being too low. I have tried several options, counselled by ChatGPT to no avail, but from some of the steps that app made me follow ,arises some questions:


* how much resolution can the game offer?
* how can I change its resolution settings?
* the size of the image set by the change in resolution would alter both the TV and the laptop? I.e. will the program have dwarf size in my computer if i adapt it to the TV?

maybe even part of these questions make no sense, I am still trying to wade through this fog about display tech.

[paulderynck]

On the laptop, right click on the desktop and choose Display Settings. You should see two screens, the laptop and the TV. You can set their resolutions separately. Usually the drop down for that will indicate what the maximum resolution is for the chosen device.

Next, there should also be a setting to extend the displays versus showing the same window on both. You want to extend them so you can select which windows to put on which screen.

TVs usually don't do a great job displaying text unless the resolution is so great that the text is too small to read, so keep text intensive stuff on the laptop.

The game itself has no resolution settings. You can resize windows and change the Zoom setting until you are happy with what you see on whichever windows you chose to put on each display. When happy, be sure to save the Screen Layout so you can switch back and forth. That will save the game window settings but not the chosen resolutions.

[Joseignacio]

Many thanks.

I thought the game had some limits on the definition it can supply to the peripherials.

My laptop' and my TV definition are correct in that screen, and I had selected extended as well. I select a certain size (usually zoom 3) and at the size the tw shows it I tend to think I should be able to read the unit's values and to see their borders and what can be seen of the land from 3 or 4 meters ( or yards), however from that distance I cannot tell many times the value of the units or whether there is a river, for example.

I have the usual visual issues but they are corrected with glasses. But may be I am hoping for too much, after all I dont understand so much on optics.

[paulderynck]

Here is a pic of a screen layout I am using. I have a wide screen monitor on the left that is set for a resolution of 3440 x 1440 and a regular monitor on the right set for 1920 x 1080. Think of it as your TV on the left and the laptop on the right. Of course that is arbitrary, you could reverse left and right, but I would think most people want the playing map to be on the biggest visible surface.

The pic was taken with Greenshot and the white space to the lower right is not what is showing on the monitor, it is because in a rectangular screen shot of both, there really is nothing in the white space.

I have played with screen layouts and different sized monitors for MWiF literally since I first got the software and here are a few suggestions based on my experience:

1. Don't try to make one monitor the entire map and put everything else on the other monitor. I strongly recommend keeping the main form always above the map. Other configurations like a screen with only a map - just don't work very well. You can overlap the main form a bit, as shown.
2. Leave space on the left of the main form for the display of selectable aircraft. I chose an air rebase save game to illustrate this. You can size the map so it is overlapped by that display, but make sure the main form is to its right.
3. The game seems to work best with the main form and map on the left and the left monitor set to be your primary monitor. ("make this my main display" checkbox is checked in Display properties)

In the pic I have zoom at 3 but I find 4 is more comfortable. To my eye 3 is as low as it can go for city names to still be legible. This is from a viewing distance of about 80 cm which is about normal for me sitting in front of the displays.

There is also a setting in Display Properties for scale and layout that you can experiment with. However doing so while the game is launched made it go quite crazy, so best to exit the game, try a setting and then relaunch the game.

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[Joseignacio]

I had read this fast and didnt quite get all the info.

now, re-reading it...

1 &2) I thought it had been said that the console had to go in the "main" or "primary" monitor. For me, that meant the laptop. So It would go at the TV (as you say it is obvious everybody wants to have the map in the big screen). Having space for both the lateral forms and the console is new for me, but I can see that the "randomly dissapearing forms bug" that stall the game sometimes could come from there if not treated this way.

3 I will try and see if my laptop gives me the TV to the left or else if I can set it to be my primary as you say.

I checked your image, I opened it and augmented it in another tab, and I can see the numbers of the units (which is what worries me) although they are somehow blurred, like the rest of the unit features, I barely can read some of the names of the units, just to show what I mean, although that is scarcely important except when lend leasing.

Since you need some perspective to see the game in your TV, I see it from 2 to 4 meters away, and from this distance I dont get such a "clear" image as I get now in my monitor with 1920x1080 in a Chrome tab. Somebody did this and could see all well? Is it just me?

Of course this might be because my vision is not 100% corrected or my TV quality doesnt meet the standards. I am confused about this. As I said, I am a layman in these matters.

Thanks again