Another good game skipped because of ancient sub 1280x1024 resolution!

[highpocrisy]

What a disappointment... here I was, ready to shell out a hard earned $50 bones on a half decent wargame and I get the 1024x bombshell again.
Now I am not one that will put graphics, sound or even interface above gameplay, but come on!
No one sports a CRT anymore!
I understand it's too much code to redesign older games to please everyone's native resolution and people should deal with a black stripe if they went for a wide screen,but how many of your costumers still run anything at 1024?!
Me and my friends already missed out on a whole bunch of games from Matrix and other publishers but I refuse to pay 50 for a game that doesn't at least support 1280 anymore.
No matter how good the gameplay.
And that's a shame because that has already meant a lot of older republished games, but now I see even recent wargames go the same route.
Obviously this genre has some of the most hardcore fans willing to put up with with ASCII graphics in 2007 just so the genre doesn't die out, but eventually people will vote with their money...
Anyhow, this is not a bitching rant, just word to the wise.
Doesn't make sense designing games in a resolution not even ~10% of your consumer base runs.

[Magpius]

wholeheartedly agree.

[Erik Rutins]

While I hear you and we are always looking to have all new game support higher resolutions, a few comments about CEAW:

1. It runs just fine in higher resolutions and looks great, even scaled. This is not some situation where you get a pixelated, nasty mess.

2. It has a windowed mode if you don't want any scaling at all.

3. Way more than 10% of our customers still run/support 1024x768

Regards,

- Erik

[Stryder]

this is basically a table top like game ported to the computer.. not sure what higher graphics would do.. but it's your money so keep it....[;)]

[pad152]

Erik

I just went shopping for a new monitor and was suprised that stores Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, Office Depot, Walmart, Staples, etc. have 75-90% monitors in now wide-screen. I don't know what is driving the wide-screen monitors but finding any monitor less than 19" and non-wide screen are getting harder to find.

Most Monitors are now 19" with default res of 1280x1024 and wide-screen 19" with a default res of 1440x900 and anything less than the default res. looks like crap!

Matrix isn't the only one behind the curve, I've yet to see any game designed for to take advantage of wide screens. I just downloaded the Strategic Command 2 Weapons and Warfare Demo and it has a max res of 1280x1024. [8|]

[Magpius]

1. It runs just fine in higher resolutions and looks great, even scaled. This is not some situation where you get a pixelated, nasty mess.

Q: How can you set a full screen resolution higher than 1024x768?

[davetheroad]

I use a 17" Dell with 1280X1024 (5:4)resolution and Commander looks just fine although there must be some distortion as the screen ratio is not the same as 1024x768 (4:3)
 
Theoretically the game should look just as good on any display.

[lomyrin]

J  have a 22 inch widescreen monitor with 1680 x 1050 resolution.  This game, as well as any other game I have tried with this monitor, fills the screen nicely without any distortion.
 
Lars

[IainMcNeil]

Development teams for these type of games are small - very small. One guy did everything really. It means you wont get as many features as games from big teams but they dont make this type of game because the market is too small. So it's catch 22

[Major Victory]

Just play the game, get over it, your tears are unbecoming!

[Irish Guards]

LMAO ... [&o][:'(][8|][X(][:'(]
IDG

[Fred98]

I have a Dell 22" widescreen set to 1,680 x 1,050.  The game runs just fine with no distortion.
 
I never hit the "1,024 bombshell".
 
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[fh]

ORIGINAL: pad152
Matrix isn't the only one behind the curve, I've yet to see any game designed for to take advantage of wide screens. I just downloaded the Strategic Command 2 Weapons and Warfare Demo and it has a max res of 1280x1024. [8|]

I just ran the demo on my laptop higher at 1440x900 and Blitzkrieg runs on my desktop at 1650x1080. Maybe your system maxes out at 1280x1024?

[Fred98]

ORIGINAL: Agent S
Q: How can you set a full screen resolution higher than 1024x768?

Close all programs.

On your Windows desktop right click

Choose Options and go from there
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[Magpius]

What don't I get here.
I run a Dell laptop at 1920x1200 native resolution.
When the game starts, the switches to 1024x768. (full screen).
When playing the game toggled to window mode, yes, it appears high res in the top left corner of the screen, but modifying the desktop resolution only makes the windowed mode larger.
As far as I can tell if playing the game in full screen mode, no other resolution other than 1024x768 is available.
-and hey Major Victory; I enjoy this game as much as anyone else here, but if this issue is not raised, then there is always the likelihood that games in development could also fail to consider high resolution values as standards.

[YohanTM2]

You always have to take into account the time Major Victory and IDG post - especially if it is later on a Saturday evening if you get my drift...this 40oz opinion may impact others as well on occasion.

ORIGINAL: Agent S

What don't I get here.
I run a Dell laptop at 1920x1200 native resolution.
When the game starts, the switches to 1024x768. (full screen).
When playing the game toggled to window mode, yes, it appears high res in the top left corner of the screen, but modifying the desktop resolution only makes the windowed mode larger.
As far as I can tell if playing the game in full screen mode, no other resolution other than 1024x768 is available.
-and hey Major Victory; I enjoy this game as much as anyone else here, but if this issue is not raised, then there is always the likelihood that games in development could also fail to consider high resolution values as standards.

[IainMcNeil]

Screen res is certainly somethign we like to deal with if we can, so don;t worry about that. The problem is sometimes its possible and sometimes it's not. If a game is 3D then you can resize without any issues. If a game is 2D then it can be much more complex, possibly requiring the UI to be written for each resolution with matching graphics - and that's just not possible and is the case for CEAW. It depends how things are structured.

[ravinhood]

Ever notice how the techies say that NOBODY ELSE uses such n such? LOL Just because you have a 19" monitor doesn't mean everyone does. I certainly used a CRT monitor 15" up until just a few weeks ago. And I'd still use it today if it hadn't started giving me some issues and I have 10 years of use out of it.

Wide Screen is nice an all makes things huge, but, I find 1024 x 760 just fine even on a wide screen. The font looks bigger and it doesn't shrink it down to microscopic views like the 1260 and the 1400 and most especially the 1600.

Matrixgames should well cater to it's old guard of consumers us old farts with the money to buy their games (when we feel like it) as oppose to some whiney techie who thinks everything should be made to his systems standards instead of anyone elses lol.

[highpocrisy]

well maybe you should hint for your grand grandkids to get you glasses for next Christmas [8D]

[SMK-at-work]

I've got 3 15" CRT monitors - at $5 each they should last me for several years yet.