Fledgling Fyora CoolieMcAwesome Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 I run dual monitors with 1920x1080 resolution on each. For some reason launching Geneforge gives me the "your resolution is not big enough for the 800x600 display". Is there a way to bypass the requirement? Edit: Even setting Resolution to 800x600 or 1280x720 and others doesn't fix. Is there a problem with dual monitors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt MMXPERT-seraph of thermodynamics Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 make a shortcut and put this on the end of its target -vidmode 1920,1080,60 (put one space between the actual target and this) 60 This is refresh rate btw, change it if its different for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora Orthonormal Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 I am running Windows 7 with the display set to 2560x1600 with 32-bit color depth. When I ran Geneforge, I got a dialog telling me that the resolution needed to be at least 800x600, and required 16-bit color depth. It gave me the option to change resolution, not change, always change, or never change. Silly me, I picked "never change resolution" and now I can't get that dialog back. Now when I run Geneforge, it tells me about the resolution requirement, then tellse me how to change resolution manually. I have uninstalled and reinstalled several times, once rebooting after the uninstall and before reinstalling. For some reason, my video driver (ATI/AMD Catalyst) won't remain in a new resolution or color depth. So I really need to get that dialog back in order to play the game. How do I undo the "never change resolution" selection? Is there a registry setting I can delete? Is it a DirectX configuration setting that I can edit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 I am running Windows 7 with the display set to 2560x1600 with 32-bit color depth. When I ran Geneforge, I got a dialog telling me that the resolution needed to be at least 800x600, and required 16-bit color depth. It gave me the option to change resolution, not change, always change, or never change. Silly me, I picked "never change resolution" and now I can't get that dialog back. Now when I run Geneforge, it tells me about the resolution requirement, then tellse me how to change resolution manually. I have uninstalled and reinstalled several times, once rebooting after the uninstall and before reinstalling. For some reason, my video driver (ATI/AMD Catalyst) won't remain in a new resolution or color depth. So I really need to get that dialog back in order to play the game. How do I undo the "never change resolution" selection? Is there a registry setting I can delete? Is it a DirectX configuration setting that I can edit? You can set it to ask at startup again from the Preferences menu. You have to be in-game to access this menu though. Click on the button with a picture of a floppy disk on it, then click Preferences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Nim Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 GFPrefs.dat probably. It does not get deleted along with the saves. Reasonably sure that till G4 there are no files outside the installation directory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora Orthonormal Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 Tyranicus: Thanks! That did it. I probably never would have looked there. Nim: When I uninstalled, the Geneforge directory was entirely deleted. I checked that, and then rebooted. I don't know where that setting was being stored, but it wasn't in any of the files in the Geneforge directory. It's a little spooky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Nim Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Are you playing through steam ? That might put the saves and the prefs file somewhere else, it really shouldn't get deleted without asking when you uninstall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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