Philosophytutor
10-20-2008, 09:50 PM
I am not sure if this goes here, if not sorry. However, I have seen several people post this question in this board so I thought I would post this answer here.
I was one of the many people that I have seen on the boards having issues with wide screen resolutions. After installing the game, making sure it was patched and ensuring that I was running the most recent graphics drivers I still only had access to 4 resolutions the highest of which was 1280x1024.
However, I had heard that others have been playing on higher resolutions so I started playing around. I think I have found the solution.
1.Start the game.
2.Go into options.
3.Under Display Driver click the one that ends in “...DirectX 8”
4.Click Apply
5.Exit the Game
6.Start the Game
7.Go into Options.
8.At this point the display driver should have defaulted back to “...D3D9” but when you select resolution all the wide screen options should be available.
I don't know why this fixes the problem I just lucked into this solution but I hope it works for everyone else too.
Also this doesn't fix every issue people are talking about. When on the town screen it is difficult to see all of the open spots for houses. Also when looking at followers (in town) sometimes the follower cards (or whatever you call where the profession and level are displayed) over lap. Hopefully these will be fixed. A zoom feature would be great for this so you can pull back or be up close.
Also if people are having problems with the mini-map only showing a black background turn off FSAA and it will show a green and brown background. Hopefully, this will also be fixed.
I was one of the many people that I have seen on the boards having issues with wide screen resolutions. After installing the game, making sure it was patched and ensuring that I was running the most recent graphics drivers I still only had access to 4 resolutions the highest of which was 1280x1024.
However, I had heard that others have been playing on higher resolutions so I started playing around. I think I have found the solution.
1.Start the game.
2.Go into options.
3.Under Display Driver click the one that ends in “...DirectX 8”
4.Click Apply
5.Exit the Game
6.Start the Game
7.Go into Options.
8.At this point the display driver should have defaulted back to “...D3D9” but when you select resolution all the wide screen options should be available.
I don't know why this fixes the problem I just lucked into this solution but I hope it works for everyone else too.
Also this doesn't fix every issue people are talking about. When on the town screen it is difficult to see all of the open spots for houses. Also when looking at followers (in town) sometimes the follower cards (or whatever you call where the profession and level are displayed) over lap. Hopefully these will be fixed. A zoom feature would be great for this so you can pull back or be up close.
Also if people are having problems with the mini-map only showing a black background turn off FSAA and it will show a green and brown background. Hopefully, this will also be fixed.