Turning up the resolution

[SmashingEmeraldz]

I have played this local with my dad after we saw this was on steam (we used to play this a lot when I was a child) and noticed that his fit to the screen, however mine didn't. When we looked in the options we didn't see anything, I was wondering how I can do this too.

[Millertime]

For me it just automatically went full screen, although it is 640x480. Does your monitor support that resolution?
I can't imagine any monitor wouldn't although very new ones might have stopped supporting such a low resolution since it's rarely used today.

Do you get it in a window, or fullscreen with black border?

[Millertime]

Also, I saw in another post that Shift+F5 will put the game into windowed mode, maybe try that and expand the window or follow up with Alt+Enter.

[SmashingEmeraldz]

Originally posted by Millertime:

For me it just automatically went full screen, although it is 640x480. Does your monitor support that resolution?
I can't imagine any monitor wouldn't although very new ones might have stopped supporting such a low resolution since it's rarely used today.

Do you get it in a window, or fullscreen with black border?

I play in fullscreen with black border on the sides.

[PrimeByte]

What I found worked for me was to go ...Steam\steamapps\common\Moonbase Commander\moonbase.exe, right click properties->Compatiblity and check "Run in 640 x 480 screen resolution". Then run moonbase.exe directly from that folder and NOT from Steam. Crazy set of steps but it works for me.

[ambershee]

I'm having trouble with this - I've tried the steps above but can't get it to work.

I'm running on a 4k display, and the game pops up in the middle at 640x480 with black borders around it. Obviously it's freaking tiny, so small that it is completely unplayable. There's got to be a way around this, right?

[⛧Darkwraith⛧]

Originally posted by kump316:

What I found worked for me was to go ...Steam\steamapps\common\Moonbase Commander\moonbase.exe, right click properties->Compatiblity and check "Run in 640 x 480 screen resolution". Then run moonbase.exe directly from that folder and NOT from Steam. Crazy set of steps but it works for me.

+1. Works for me, no more black border.

Have a cookie on me

[Flvffi]

Originally posted by Millertime:

For me it just automatically went full screen, although it is 640x480. Does your monitor support that resolution?
I can't imagine any monitor wouldn't although very new ones might have stopped supporting such a low resolution since it's rarely used today.

Do you get it in a window, or fullscreen with black border?

That's ridiculous. the Disk ran fullscreen to fit the monitor, and on 1200ish this works. if I click off the window in fullscreen 1366x768 I get this grayish purple off color thing, and I have to make it windowed mode. It's wierd.

[GCAF]

Hi, I played this game when I was a child too.
I want to play it in 640x480 WITH black sides. I hate when a 4:3 game (or video) get distortioned to fit in a 16:9 resolution. What can I do? Right now, I have not checked the "Run in 640 x 480 screen resolution" box, I did once for a chance, and nothing happens. The game still shows distortioned to fill in 1920x1080 (16:9). Really I would like to run it in 1440x1080 (4:3), rescaled from 640x480, with black bordes in a 1920x1080 screen

[XxXQueenNanaXxX]

Originally posted by GCAF:

Hi, I played this game when I was a child too.
I want to play it in 640x480 WITH black sides. I hate when a 4:3 game (or video) get distortioned to fit in a 16:9 resolution. What can I do? Right now, I have not checked the "Run in 640 x 480 screen resolution" box, I did once for a chance, and nothing happens. The game still shows distortioned to fill in 1920x1080 (16:9). Really I would like to run it in 1440x1080 (4:3), rescaled from 640x480, with black bordes in a 1920x1080 screen

You'll need to open Radeon settings or Nvidia control panel and change GPU scaling.

[logicaloctopus]

I like the Shift-F5 option to run it in a window. But yeah, I have 4k display. Is there a way to double size it (or 3x or 4x) while still in the window? I'd never heard of this before. Pretty cool game.

[Illuminator]

For anyone dropping in from the future, on Windows 10 I was running into similar issues as described above (tiny display on a larger monitor). The "Run in 640x480 screen resolution" option didn't fix anything for me.

What worked for me was:
1. Navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Moonbase Commander
2. Right click on moonbase.exe and select Properties
3. Navigate to the "Compatibility" tab
4. Click "Change high DPI settings"
5. Select "Override high DPI scaling behavior." and say that scaling is provided by "Application" from the dropdown.
6. Apply and close everything
7. Launch the game

Note that I do NOT have the 640x480 checkbox checked. Not sure why my fix was different from the above...

[TacoSupreme]

What I did was edit hegames.ini in c:\windows\hegames.ini

There you can set:
MainWindowStyle=0
MainWindowZoom=4

That zoom makes it 4x the size and looked fine on my 4k monitor. Obviously a little pixelated, but large. Can change zoom to 2x if playing on 1080.

[Mikeware]

Anyone get this to work again more recently? It seems Steam or the game or something is re-writing a fresh copy of the hegames.ini from somewhere when I start the game. Even if I modify the one in the redist directory, it doesn't seem to matter?

[Mikeware]

I did notice a bit more success if I kept the ini file open in Notepad, but can't seem to get the MainWindowZoom to work.

I did see in the string resources for the exe there were unused DesiredResolutionX and DesiredResolutionY keys. Trying to up those created a larger window but then caused an error within the game rendering to pop a dialog and stop.