maydayp
Pleb
posted 10-24-17 00:45 ET (US)
okay, so I opened pharaoh today and found that it was displaying weirdly. Like it was stretched and/or zoomed in. And when I try on the highest normal (no illegal patch) resolution it seems to zoom in even more. I play the gog version, and tried their repair option. But I'm not sure what other options to check. And outside of any automatic windows 10 updates I haven't changed any display settings.
maydayp
Pleb
posted 10-24-17 03:54
ET (US)
2 / 5
yeah, I loaded the game again, and it's definitely not just stretching the game, it's more like a 640x480 originally looked iirc, but thinks it's loading the game in a larger display setting (which is what I had set before). I even reinstalled the game, including deleting all my save data (backed up elsewhere).
And outside of the normal control panel settings (where scaling is 100%, the minimum), I don't know how to change the settings. There was an option in the compatibility settings to disable full screen optimization, which seemed to do nothing.
(and my display is 1920x1080)
I don't know if this means anything, but I tried setting my display setting to 1280:960 (maybe 1280:1080), and my screen adjusted successfully, but when I loaded the game it didn't keep that ratio, and went full screen again. even with disable full screen optimizations checked on the exe file
also, thank you for the help trouble shooting this
maydayp
Pleb
posted 10-25-17 01:53
ET (US)
4 / 5
So, I have a Radeon chip set. And I actually had to turn on GPU scaling to fix it.
maydayp
Pleb
posted 11-20-17 03:56
ET (US)
5 / 5
So, Windows 10 introduced another update, and now I have GPS scaling turned back on, since I had the same stretching/zoom issue again.
Luckily I remembered this topic, and knew what to do. Thanks again y'all for the help