You know, I had a thought, and sure enough the main.cfg file in my My Documents/SH3... etc folder was set as read only. Easy fix...

Since this seems to be the single biggest negative about the game, merged.

I'm not sure if SH4 will run in a window or not but it's not common for games to support windowed mode these days.

However, the problem is that I have a 24" widescreen moniter with a native resolution of 1920x1200. If I run SH4 in a window at 1024x768, it would literally take up less than 1/4 of my screen.

This would pretty much kill the immersion factor I'm afraid. :-?

mh, punch me, afaik, to run a game in window mode needs a bit more performance than run it in fullscreen. but i could surely wrong. :hmm:

21" 4:3 CRT monitor.

Absolutely, you can force 4:3 aspect ratio and get the nearly square screen. (I can do this in my geforce video card control panel, it isn't windowed it's just forcing 4:3 aspect.)


BUT: The higher the native resolution of the monitor the worse a lower resolution looks, even at the 4:3 scale.
Ever see a high def widescreen tv recieving an analog feed? Utterly horrible.

Ok, I guess my next naive question is, if you run it windowed, with a black wallpaper, will the overall size of the window be the same as someone with a 19" monitor at 1280*1024 ? And the image quality would be better? Next question (and I am not trying to be a smart ass here :)) what do other games look like on your 24" freaking huge montior? (Ok, that freaking huge part was uncalled for, but I'm jealous). How do they accomodate the theater size montiors?

I guess it comes down to running it windowed, or skipping it.

That's an understatement.

Even little 15" 4:3 LCDs use a native resolution of 1280x1024. You'd have to find a 13" 4:3 LCD to support an XGA natively.

The challenge some may also encounter is this: although you can cancel scaling via your driver settings, some LCDs will override this and rescale it across the entire screen again. The only way around this is if the game supports windowed mode, and unfortunately many do not.

My older games pretty much all support my 1680x1050 native resolution (22 inch monitor) and I run them at 4:3 aspect ratio. They run fullscreen top to bottom with some wasted area on the sides. They look fine, if they run at that resolution....at 800x600 or 1024x768 pretty crappy.

Ok, I didn't realize this. Of course, you are talking to a guy who has been using a 17" monitor from Wal-mart for 6 years... I just bought the 19" LCD a few weeks ago. Honestly, I think SH4 looks brilliant. I guess maybe it doesn't on 24" montiors. Are other games like Halflife 2 and Age of Empires 3 able to run and look good on those montiors?

You could always by my 17" for SH4... cheap! :yep:

LOL :rotfl: It's ok, I'm not offended.

Most current games support 1920x1200 resolution natively in fullscreen mode. Of course it takes a pretty hot graphics card to run a game at this resolution but most games don't prevent you from doing this if you've got the setup for it.

You know, running windowed is actually the best suggestion I've heard yet. I might actually be willing to give that a try, but it's hard to imagine being satisfied with it. It's been many years since I've run a game windowed.

Well, I can imagine it's not the best solution. :oops: It seems each Silent Hunter game has been a little behind the curve on resolution. SH2 ran at 800x600, in early 2002. We had some clever guys make a conversion kit to get it up to 1024x768x32. Are you telling me 1024*768 res is dated? :rotfl:

I can't speak for AoE as that's one strategy title I don't own, though HL2 looks fantastic, as it supports 1920x1200 (the native resolutions on 24" LCDs).

lol - no doubt. :D

already a nice dimension. it's sort of weird to run the game in 1024x768, i would guess. :hmm: