Widescreen does not work (3.4 BETA)

[LarryP]

My laptop has a 1366x768 display and it worked fine and completely filled up before the 3.4 beta patch. I just installed the patch and now I lose a large portion of my screen on the right side. I feel like I am missing something but I don't have a clue as to what.

[ralphtricky]

Larry,
Can you please post a dxdiag file? The instructions are at the top of the support forum.

What's going on is I need to allocate memory to draw the images, then it gets flipped so it's on the screen. This helps avoid flicker. I rely on the OS to tell me how much memory to allocate, and it defaults to 1152x864 if it gets a value that's too small. Because it should run on a machine with 128 Meg of memory, I can't simply allocate a bunch of memory just in case. Since you could spread TOAW across a 3x3 array of monitors, I'd have to allocate a ridiculous amount of memory to handle all cases if I didn't use this method.

I'm pretty sure that the OS is lying to me about the monitor size, so the DXDiag should tell me what monitor the OS thinks is attached, and may point to a problem with my code.

I'm going to add a flag for the release version that will optionally set the screen size to 2560x1600 or larger which is the biggest monitor I saw on Dell's site.

Thanks,
Ralph

[LarryP]

OK, the dxdiag.txt is attached. Thank you for your reply. I know the new monitor sizes are a pain for developers so I wish you well with this situation. [&o]

[LarryP]

Here is what it looks like:

[ralphtricky]

OK, I found it. There were still some assumptions about having a 4x3 monitor, and since your resolution was too low, it forced it to a 4x3 display. Boy, I can't wait until the round monitors come out[:D]. Nope I havent' seen any, but it's a nice rumor, isn't it?

Ralph

[Panama]

Yeah, you guys have it tough. Too many different possibilities. I changed the resolution on my desktop and went from a full window (1440x900) to the one that's pictured above after I changed resolutions to 1280x768. I went back to the initial resolution 1440x900 and got the full window back. Then I started changing resolutions incrementally to 1400x1050, 1390x768, etc,. back down to 1280x768. Each change gave me a full window. Even 1280x768. [X(]

If I skip a resolution between beginning and end it gives a partial window. If I go through each one incrementally I get a full window every time. [:D]

[LarryP]

ORIGINAL: ralphtrick

OK, I found it. There were still some assumptions about having a 4x3 monitor, and since your resolution was too low, it forced it to a 4x3 display. Boy, I can't wait until the round monitors come out[:D]. Nope I havent' seen any, but it's a nice rumor, isn't it?

Ralph

Excellent! I'm thrilled you found it. Round monitors... I can see programmers quitting in droves. [;)]

[ralphtricky]

As a programmer, I followed the silverlight introduction. Silverlight is microsoft's competitor to flash.

The first two years were all about how you could do video, why they did this, I don't know. I don't know of anyone outside of the networks that would care.

The next year was all about how you could do round buttons that spun off the screen and how you should also now hire designers since developers have no soul and create all these fantastic new programs where clicking on a round button would make these round buttons spin across the screen, bouncing off thing and creating this fantastic artistic experience that takes 5 minutes to open a form.

That's the crowd that's going to love the round screens.

[LarryP]

Silverlight, bah humbug. [;)] I too am a programmer but not much anymore, and MS kept sending me the Silverlight stuff along with their MSDN stuff. I never cared for it then and I care less for it now. They can keep anything that's round in the way of a display.

Now there are items of beauty that are very round, but that's for another forum. [:D] [X(]

[LarryP]

The alpha patch fixed it. Looks wonderful now. [&o]