Is there a way to run DW wide-screen or higher rez?

[FPSchazly]

It's not a hardware problem. Games and their engines also have limits, hardware isn't the only concern.

I'm guessing the reason people could get 1600x1200 is because their monitor can support it. You cannot display a resolution higher than your monitor's native resolution, unless you're doing that fancy anti-aliasing mode where it then downsamples the resolution, but I doubt that would work with Dangerous Waters.

Also, they didn't program in anything other than 4:3 and 5:4 aspect ratios, so I don't believe anyone will be able to get widescreen ratios easily.

[Valhalla]

Originally Posted by FPSchazly

I'm guessing the reason people could get 1600x1200 is because their monitor can support it. You cannot display a resolution higher than your monitor's native resolution, unless you're doing that fancy anti-aliasing mode where it then downsamples the resolution, but I doubt that would work with Dangerous Waters.

That's correct.

DW can only run in 1600x1200 if the monitor (and video card of course) supports a *vertical* resolution of equal or more than 1200 pixels. Now most if not all halfway modern video cards have no problem with such a resolution, but many laptops or even desktop displays are 16:9 with resolutions like 1920x1080 for example.

So if one has a 1920x1200 16:10 display (or anything larger), it can. Otherwise it can not.

[Aktungbby]

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[fitzcarraldo]

Welcome aboard Valhalla!

Regards.

Fitzcarraldo

[Valhalla]

Thanks for the warm welcome, @all.

I see, people are still talking quite a lot about Dangerous Waters. I've been playing this on and off for many years, but only recently I learned there is now a way to run this on Windows 8.1 with the Direct3d patch. So I reinstalled instantly

Other than that, I'm more an aircraft guy, mostly on Falcon 4 BMS. The only other submarine sim that I thoroughly enjoy is SH3 with GWX, and - to some extent - SH4.

[Jimbuna]

Welcome to SubSim Valhalla

Originally Posted by Valhalla

That's correct.

DW can only run in 1600x1200 if the monitor (and video card of course) supports a *vertical* resolution of equal or more than 1200 pixels. Now most if not all halfway modern video cards have no problem with such a resolution, but many laptops or even desktop displays are 16:9 with resolutions like 1920x1080 for example.

So if one has a 1920x1200 16:10 display (or anything larger), it can. Otherwise it can not.

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[LetMePickThat]

Hey guys !
I've jumped on DW recently, and I've been fiddling with it to make it run as best as possible on my hardware.

I'm using a 3440*1440 monitor as my main display, so no issue on that side when using 1600*1200, but my secondary rig has a 1080p display, so some workaround was needed.
I just wanted to post here that 1600*1200 seems to be available if you run your desktop at a higher resolution than what it can physically display, using Nvidia DSR or AMD VSR supersampling techniques. In my case, I've defined a custom resolution for my 1920*1080 panel that allows me to render DW at full resolution, before downscaling it to fit the screen. The custom resolution I run at is 2133*1200 (1200 pixels vertical, 16:9 ratio), which allows me to set the game to 1600*1200.

Cheers.

[Aktungbby]

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