Screen Rez

MarkQuinn · 03-01-06, 09:12 PM

This is just a matter of personal preference, but to add a contrary opinion to all this and perhaps ease the people who can't get hi-resolution to work, I will say I successfully changed my game from 1024x768 to 1280x1024 and yes, it was very good looking, smooth, and ran similarly in both resolutions. However, after an hour of testing all this, I changed it back (actually I reverted to a backup of my SHIII folder). Two things bothered me. First, the much discussed inability to alt-tab out of the program. Once you're in it, you're stuck in it at the higher resolutions. Because SHIII moves so slowly, I like to do other tasks while navigating from point A to point B (and one very nice thing about this game is that even when you're working outside the program, time is still passing so you're not wasting time by doing other things ... try it, it works). The second thing I didn't like (which is admitedly very small and could probably be fixed easily) is the sector numbers on the map. For some reason in the higher resolution they came out very pixilated and wrong.

Anyway, bottom line is if the higher resolution was infinately better looking than the standard, I'd still be playing it. To me, the difference wasn't noticeable enough to keep it that way and sacrifice being able to leave the program.

Of course each person will need to test this, but for those who can't seem to get it to work, trust me when I say (at least in this poster's opinion) you're not missing all that much.

MQ

03-01-06, 09:12 PM	#11
MarkQuinn A-ganger Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 71 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	This is just a matter of personal preference, but to add a contrary opinion to all this and perhaps ease the people who can't get hi-resolution to work, I will say I successfully changed my game from 1024x768 to 1280x1024 and yes, it was very good looking, smooth, and ran similarly in both resolutions. However, after an hour of testing all this, I changed it back (actually I reverted to a backup of my SHIII folder). Two things bothered me. First, the much discussed inability to alt-tab out of the program. Once you're in it, you're stuck in it at the higher resolutions. Because SHIII moves so slowly, I like to do other tasks while navigating from point A to point B (and one very nice thing about this game is that even when you're working outside the program, time is still passing so you're not wasting time by doing other things ... try it, it works). The second thing I didn't like (which is admitedly very small and could probably be fixed easily) is the sector numbers on the map. For some reason in the higher resolution they came out very pixilated and wrong. Anyway, bottom line is if the higher resolution was infinately better looking than the standard, I'd still be playing it. To me, the difference wasn't noticeable enough to keep it that way and sacrifice being able to leave the program. Of course each person will need to test this, but for those who can't seem to get it to work, trust me when I say (at least in this poster's opinion) you're not missing all that much. MQ