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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Minotaur on September 27, 2000, 10:14:00 AM
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I got to goofing with screen rez last night. I was trying to maximize my visibility. Mostly by trying to make the plane graphics as large as possible.
Here is what I found out:
- Plane graphics only grow slightly larger as you decrease rez
- Plane graphics become very grainy at lower rez
- The cockpit intruments become very sharp and clear at higher rez
- The cockpit and instruments do not change size for varying rez
- Plane Icon text becomes clearer and text size remains the same at higher rez
- Radio buffer and text shrink to miniscule sizes at higher rez
At the 1600 x 1200 rez the game really shines. Surprizingly I did not really take too much of a frame rate hit. Only one problem. I can't read the radio buffer nor the radio text output.
All other aspects of increasing the rez provided the same size display, only much higher clarity of display.
I was wondering if anyone has found a way to increase the radio text size while increase rez, so that it can be of a readable size?
Thanks in advance! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Mino
The Wrecking Crew
"This is a social game, it's up to you to fit into it, not for everyone else to fit into you."
Pyro
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<i can't see either, PUNT>
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Same here, only reason I keep it to 1280x1024.
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Sorry you can't increase the font size. I ran into a max fon't size problem that I couldn't make the font any lager in very high reses, I might be able to change this in the future.
HiTech
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Originally posted by hitech:
Sorry you can't increase the font size. I ran into a max fon't size problem that I couldn't make the font any lager in very high reses, I might be able to change this in the future.
HiTech
Well "Shucky darn!", I found that I really like the 1600 x 1200 rez.
Anyone using this rez?
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Mino
The Wrecking Crew
"This is a social game, it's up to you to fit into it, not for everyone else to fit into you."
Pyro
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I only use 1600x1280 32bit now that I have my new system.
After running 1024 16bit all I can say is AWESOME!
I really thought things looked nice in 1024 but Natedog and Superfly I am amazed everytime I play now.
I don't seem to have a problem with the fontsize at 1600. Look nice clean clear and crisp : )
S!
Rocket
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yep .. if the font was bigger I'd bump it up to 1600. 1280 is still pretty good though.
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I'm at highest res myself and really don't care if I can read the buffer or not.
I'm normally to busy to care what is being said.
BTW HiRes looks so good that I'll never go lowRes again.
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Mighty1
The New Baby Harp Seals
"Come try to club THIS Seal"
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Using 1600 at 32 bit and reading the text ok.
I would guess its a monitor size thing as the bigger your monitor then the text box grows with it.
I usually play on a 17 inch monitor but had to swap back to my old 15 incher for a week when the 17 inch blew up, yup bang flash smoke the lot (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Anyway radio text was crap to read at 1600 on a 15 inch monitor i had to reduce res to 1280 to be able to read it at all.
So the bad news seems to be upgrade that monitor (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
A nice low dot pitch works a treat as well really improves the clarity of the display.