One quick question before I buy it...

[Marc von Martial]

ORIGINAL: Bossy573

ORIGINAL: ralphtrick
I'm wondering if it's a driver issue? The resolutions aren't hard-coded, and the maximizing is done through a windows call, nothing special. Doen Notepad do the same thing when maximized?

It could be. The drivers are the Sony drivers that came with the machine. I know you can try some crazy driver mod to get the Nvidia drivers to work on this but it is a work machine too so I can't really mess around.
GGWAW also wont go full screen on this. Wordpad expands fine.

Doesn't affect gameplay at all, which is the main thing. Maybe I'll try and mess around with it this weekend.

You should check your sony native drivers for options regarding this. Many LCDs and widescreens support different aspect ratios and also have settings to limit those. Maybe it is limited by default.

[Hortlund]

ORIGINAL: golden delicious

ORIGINAL: Panzerjaeger Hortlund

What are the minimum sys specs?

Haha! I knew we'd drag you back to TOAW Steve!

Hehe, you know what they say...you can check out, but you can never leave

[Vincenzo_Beretta]

ORIGINAL: Bossy573
1280x800. It is a Sony Vaio SZ, 13.3 widescreen. Maybe it is not a common resolution?

Just an FYI, my desktop is a 1600x1200 resolution and the game works perfectly and looks fantastic in that! [:)]

I have a Sony Vaio VGN FS215M laptop, with a screen resolution of 1280x800, and I have exactly the same problem: the game window stretches only to 1024x768 so I lose some gaming estate on the left and right sides. It was the same with COW. I do not know if it is a driver issue (I use the ones supplied by Sony) but other apllications, like Word or Notepad, stretch to occupy the whole screen just fine.

It would be nice to find what causes this in TOAW III - if an internal limit or a third-party driver problem.

[JAMiAM]

ORIGINAL: Vincenzo Beretta

It would be nice to find what causes this in TOAW III - if an internal limit or a third-party driver problem.

I suspect it is a driver issue, since both Ralph and I use laptops with 16:10 widescreen aspect ratios, as well. He has 1920x1200, and mine is 1680x1050. Both scale out properly.

As a lark, try to put a shortcut directly to the Opart 3.exe on your desktop. Then right click the shortcut, choose Properties, Shortcut tab, and on the drop down menu for Run, choose Maximized. See if that helps.

[Bossy573]

ORIGINAL: JAMiAM
As a lark, try to put a shortcut directly to the Opart 3.exe on your desktop. Then right click the shortcut, choose Properties, Shortcut tab, and on the drop down menu for Run, choose Maximized. See if that helps.

Gave this a shot. No dice though. An error message came up stating the area inside the windows borders should be at least 632 X 434.
I'm goint to tinker a bit and see if I can figure it out.

[Bossy573]

Ah, no dice. The best I was able to do was to change the resolution to 1024 X 768 and then change the scaling method. It stretched then but doesn't look nearly as good.
I realize it is probably small potatoes compared to other items on the list but if Matrix could look into the problem a bit, it would be appreciated. That said, the game is fully playable the way it is. [:)]

[ralphtricky]

ORIGINAL: Bossy573

Ah, no dice. The best I was able to do was to change the resolution to 1024 X 768 and then change the scaling method. It stretched then but doesn't look nearly as good.
I realize it is probably small potatoes compared to other items on the list but if Matrix could look into the problem a bit, it would be appreciated. That said, the game is fully playable the way it is. [:)]

Unless you're willing to ship me your machine, I can't do a whole lot about it, I'm afraid.

The fact that GGWAW works the same way makes me feel that there is something basically wrong with the drivers. I'm not doing anything special, I'm using what the OS returns as the maximum screen size to force the window to be smaller than that. If the OS was telling me that the maximum size of the screen was only X, that might cause it.

I am going to change that to allow multiple monitors in the next patch, that may help.

[Bossy573]

ORIGINAL: ralphtrick
The fact that GGWAW works the same way makes me feel that there is something basically wrong with the drivers.

I am going to change that to allow multiple monitors in the next patch, that may help.

Yup. I hate oem drivers but what can you do? Love this lappy anyway.

[petdoc]

Happens to me too. I have an HP Pavillion that runs at 1280x800 and it windows. GGWAW goes full screen on it though.

[Bossy573]

Seems like it has got to be that funky resolution. Small, widescreen lappys are kinda new. Maybe it is Windows that has the problem?