Resolution

[It's Showtime Homie!]

Hey guys, I was just wondering if any of you ever figured out a way to increase the resolution for Sacred Gold, I've been looking around Google but I can't find anyway. Any help is appreciated!

[Luis]

As far as I know, the resolution is hardcoded, no fixes for it either on gog.com

[Lulu Rainsong]

It's hardcoded into the game, you cannot expand the res for Sacred without screwing around with the files I think. >.<

[Argharna]

Sacred Gold runs at 1024x768 by default, so on widescreen monitors, it will definitely become distorted. One thing you can try is to enable the setting to keep aspect ratio intact. Most drivers should be able to do this (yes, even the lowly Intel integrated graphics).

My AMD driver allows me to enable GPU scaling for the monitor, so I can choose these 3 options:
"scale image to full panel" - default normal behaviour
"maintain aspect ratio" - scale image to full panel but keeps the aspect ratio, resulting in black bars at top-bottom or sides
"use centered timings" - centers the image without resizing, keeping a physical pixels equivalent to an image pixel, so black bars will be all around the image, unless the image is at native resolution.

If the options are greyed out it can be that your monitor does not support this. As for me i could only do this by going into my monitor menu and search there for something that does the same thing. In the end i was able to let it scale on 4:3 on my monitor thi is better than a distorted 16:9.

[bryson777]

Originally posted by Argharna:

If the options are greyed out it can be that your monitor does not support this.

To enable GPU scaling in amd catalyst drivers, you might have to first lower your desktop resolution in order to get the option to select "maintain aspect ratio". Then you can raise your desktop resolution back to it's original size and even though the GPU scaling option will be greyed out again it will work. The game will run in 4:3 which looks much better than trying to stretch the image wide screen.

Also the game resolution is fine as long as you add anti-aliasing which makes a night and day difference! However ticking the FSAA option in game doesn't do anything for me so I have to set my drivers to override the application settings. I use 8x aa and 16x af. Now the only problem is that the main menu has these white "lines" when enabling AA in the drivers but so far in game seems fine and again really makes a big difference in image quality. I did try every setting I could think of from matching my desktop's resolution to the games native 1024x768, to selecting 16bit, to windowed mode etc...

Anyways, I hope these tips were helpful. Enjoy the game!

[It's Showtime Homie!]

Thanks for the help, guys :D

[Yumgumbo]

Great! Thanks for this post. The game looks a lot better in 4:3.

[Dentar]

i have 4:3 option on monitor,but i have different problem.
game screen is tilted left a bit and i cant see one row in inventory,when i go left with mouse the cursor completely disappears and i see those info windows for items poping out.
Anyove else have that problem?