Forcing Painkiller into 800x600, and getting all the screen.

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Sorry if I am OT, or posting in the wron group for this, but:

Have Painkiller from DreamCatcher.

Have old 800x600 monitor.

The graphics card knows that 800x600 is the highest res the monitor
can do (unless there is some secret I don't know that will make it
actually do better than 800x600, without futzing with inside settings)

With that, I get the upper left 3/4 of the entire image. I need to
know how to get that to fit onto the 800x600 display.

Don't laugh at me and tell me to get a newer monitor, that isn't in
the cards right now.

 

[rms]

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Ok, sounds like you need to tell the videocard driver what refreshrate the
monitor needs to run at. Most driver control panels will allow you to set
this. Painkiller itself shouldn't need to be set, tho there may be .ini
files that specify the refreshrate for the game.

rms

 

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On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:14:09 GMT, "rms" <rsquires@flashREMOVE.net>
wrote:

>Ok, sounds like you need to tell the videocard driver what refreshrate the
>monitor needs to run at. Most driver control panels will allow you to set
>this. Painkiller itself shouldn't need to be set, tho there may be .ini
>files that specify the refreshrate for the game.
>
>rms
>

That worked, at least on this driver (for a recent ATI card, older
cards I have never had that option, for some reason, nor odoes some of
my Linuxes)

 

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On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 19:06:58 -0400, Gary J Tait
<classicsat@nospam_yahoo.com> wrote:


>That worked, at least on this driver (for a recent ATI card, older
>cards I have never had that option, for some reason, nor odoes some of
>my Linuxes)

Get Multires from www.entechtaiwan.com and have it lock the refresh
rate for you. Set the refresh rate for 800x600 to your monitors
capabilities, hopefully 85hz or so.

 

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Aldwyn Edain <ae@invalid.email> once tried to test me with:

> Get Multires from www.entechtaiwan.com and have it lock the refresh
> rate for you. Set the refresh rate for 800x600 to your monitors
> capabilities, hopefully 85hz or so.

LOL, if his monitor's max resolution is 800x600 then he ain't gunna have no
85hz refresh rate. Back when they made 800x600 max monitors the best you
could hope for on refresh rate was around 60hz for their highest res.
Eww... that reminds me that some of those older monitors would to 1024x768
but only in an INTERLACED mode, icky.

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On 5 Apr 2005 00:22:20 GMT, Knight37 <knight37m@email.com> wrote:


>LOL, if his monitor's max resolution is 800x600 then he ain't gunna have no
>85hz refresh rate. Back when they made 800x600 max monitors the best you
>could hope for on refresh rate was around 60hz for their highest res.
>Eww... that reminds me that some of those older monitors would to 1024x768
>but only in an INTERLACED mode, icky.

Must be a right POS then. Even my 15" FST monitor back in 1993 could
do way better than that.