Screen Resolution Issues

[FodderFella]

HI, im hoping someone here can help , i only get 3 resolution options in the configue and they are all 1024 x 768, trouble is i have a 1900 x 1200 monitor and when i play in any of the settings the mouse and screen do not line up, when i move mouse to bottom of screen it selects something half way up. this means i cant play at all.

is there a way to set a different resolution for the game or fix the alignment issue?

really want to play this again, but cant, i even have to alt+tab to close the game because i cant click the quit button.

[Milo Ran]

引用自 Kaiver：

Milo Ran, great. Would you like to make a guide out of this in the guide section? So that the instruction will not lost.

Alright, I will check it out. Never use the guide function before. Anyway, the instructions above should also work on retail and copies purchased from other digital game stores.

[John Lord Cake]

Thank you! It's working great!

[Sticky Wicket]

I got the same problem, but none of these suggestions work.

Will have to refund the game I suppose.

[Twoscythe]

They are al labeled the same, but to scale it for modern monitors, you want the second option.

[Kesvalk]

引用自 Kaiver：

引用自 wide boi：

I know it's a necro but... i can't seem to understand how to install any of these things.

Do this steps http://dl3.joxi.net/drive/2019/08/30/0009/0399/618895/95/89951cd25b.jpg

And u receive "non full sreen" http://joxi.ru/52aN5KwuEBvvpA

your links are dead, i really want to install your mod on the steam version but i can't find how to in the internet, every link is either dead or is talking about the gog version.

[avrbrian]

I've got it working full screen on my machine, Press the green play button. You then get the play or configuration option. Press configuration, then pick the middle screen option. When you press the test button, you will know if it has worked.

[Gaius]

Milo, thank you! No more tearing out my hair!

[Milo Ran]

引用自 Milo Ran：

Updated and still working as of 10 Apr 2021:

Hi all, I managed get the game to run full screen on Windows 10, 4K screen. You may try the following, please follow the instructions closely. (IMPORTANT: Please remove any Steam launch options for this game before proceeding)

A) Windows Settings:
1) After installing the game, go to the install folder (default: "Steam\steamapps\common\UFO Aftermath"), right-click on "UFO.exe" and click "Properties".

2) In the new dialog box that pop up, click on the "Compatibility" tab.
Then under "Settings", click "Change high DPI settings".

3) Another dialog box will pop up.
Under 'High DPI scaling override", check the "Override high DPI scaling behaviour. Scaling performed by:" box.
This will enable the drop down list below. Click on the list and select "Application".

4) Click "Ok" or "Apply" to close the dialog boxes.

5) After you are done with the above, you need to repeat the same steps for another file "Launcher.exe" in the same folder.


B) Game Launcher settings:
1) From the Steam Library, "Play" the game, Steam will prompt you to select:
"Play UFO:Aftermath" OR "Configure". Click on "Configure". (Alternatively, you can go to the install folder and run "Launcher.exe".)

2) In the Launcher that just open up, you'll see a few screen options. You need to go through the screen options one by one to see which one you prefer.
Click on the preferred option and click "Test" to start the screen preview (a animation of a spinning UFO logo). << IMPORTANT STEP

UPDATE: If for some reason, after clicking "Test", the launcher enlarge and fill the screen but there is no animation, click on "Test" again.

3) Press "Esc" to exit the animation.
A dialog box will pop up asking "Did you see the scene properly",
click "OK" if the scene display properly
OR
"Cancel" if it did not (or if it is not what you want).

Repeat from step 2 until you get the screen option you prefer.

IMPORTANT NOTE: From the "Did you see the scene properly" dialog box, you need to click "OK" to change the screen setting. If you click "Cancel" or close the dialog box, no changes to the screen setting will be made.

If you are struck in a black screen, please alt-tab out to the "Did you see the scene properly" dialog box.

4) Once the settings are done, click "OK" to close the Launcher.

UPDATE: If for some reason, a small animation is blocking the view of the "OK" button, try to click and hold on the animation to see if the button appear. If it's not the "OK" button, just move the mouse cursor to a empty spot and release. Try to click and hold till you find the "OK" button. You need to click on the "OK" button or else the setting won't save.

Note: For some reason, I have 3 different options to choose from compared to the screenshot provided by Kaiver in the above comment, Kaiver only have 2.

Options available to Kaiver are:
1) 1024 x 768 colour depth 32 60Hz
2) 1024 x 768 colour depth 32 75Hz

Options available to me are (For some reasons, all of them are the same description, but when I try them one by one, the results are in the blankets below):
1) 1024 x 768 colour depth 32 60Hz (Full screen, no stretching 4:3)
2) 1024 x 768 colour depth 32 60Hz (Full screen, stretched to widescreen 16:9)
3) 1024 x 768 colour depth 32 60Hz (Full screen but the game stays at 1024 x 768 surrounded by a black background)


Hope this help for those who have problem running the game on full screen or the game display is just too small for playing.

Wow.. Whoever you are, thank you for the awards man. That's very kind, thank you!

[TAW]

I Can't open the game launcher in order to pick the resolution . . . maybe someone could copy paste their config.cfg contents in here ?

[Milo Ran]

引用自 TAW：

I Can't open the game launcher in order to pick the resolution . . . maybe someone could copy paste their config.cfg contents in here ?

Hmm.. Does this work? You need to do this for both "UFO.exe" & "Launcher.exe".

A) Windows Settings:
1) After installing the game, go to the install folder (default: "Steam\steamapps\common\UFO Aftermath"), right-click on "UFO.exe" and click "Properties".

2) In the new dialog box that pop up, click on the "Compatibility" tab.
Then under "Settings", click "Change high DPI settings".

3) Another dialog box will pop up.
Under 'High DPI scaling override", check the "Override high DPI scaling behaviour. Scaling performed by:" box.
This will enable the drop down list below. Click on the list and select "Application".

4) Click "Ok" or "Apply" to close the dialog boxes.

5) After you are done with the above, you need to repeat the same steps for another file "Launcher.exe" in the same folder.

[TAW]

引用自 Milo Ran：

引用自 TAW：

I Can't open the game launcher in order to pick the resolution . . . maybe someone could copy paste their config.cfg contents in here ?

Hmm.. Does this work? You need to do this for both "UFO.exe" & "Launcher.exe".

A) Windows Settings:
1) After installing the game, go to the install folder (default: "Steam\steamapps\common\UFO Aftermath"), right-click on "UFO.exe" and click "Properties".

2) In the new dialog box that pop up, click on the "Compatibility" tab.
Then under "Settings", click "Change high DPI settings".

3) Another dialog box will pop up.
Under 'High DPI scaling override", check the "Override high DPI scaling behaviour. Scaling performed by:" box.
This will enable the drop down list below. Click on the list and select "Application".

4) Click "Ok" or "Apply" to close the dialog boxes.

5) After you are done with the above, you need to repeat the same steps for another file "Launcher.exe" in the same folder.

Done all that stuff, launcher.exe just refuses to work

[Milo Ran]

引用自 TAW：

引用自 Milo Ran：

Hmm.. Does this work? You need to do this for both "UFO.exe" & "Launcher.exe".

A) Windows Settings:
1) After installing the game, go to the install folder (default: "Steam\steamapps\common\UFO Aftermath"), right-click on "UFO.exe" and click "Properties".

2) In the new dialog box that pop up, click on the "Compatibility" tab.
Then under "Settings", click "Change high DPI settings".

3) Another dialog box will pop up.
Under 'High DPI scaling override", check the "Override high DPI scaling behaviour. Scaling performed by:" box.
This will enable the drop down list below. Click on the list and select "Application".

4) Click "Ok" or "Apply" to close the dialog boxes.

5) After you are done with the above, you need to repeat the same steps for another file "Launcher.exe" in the same folder.

Done all that stuff, launcher.exe just refuses to work

Like when you click on it and nothing start at all? Not even a black screen or anything that pop up? Hmm.. have you try running it in admin mode? Maybe you can try updating your graphic drivers and reinstall the game? Anyway, what is your specs like? Are you running Windows 10 too?

[TAW]

引用自 Milo Ran：

引用自 TAW：

Done all that stuff, launcher.exe just refuses to work

Like when you click on it and nothing start at all? Not even a black screen or anything that pop up? Hmm.. have you try running it in admin mode? Maybe you can try updating your graphic drivers and reinstall the game? Anyway, what is your specs like? Are you running Windows 10 too?

Done everything everything everything.
Nothing happens at all. The app opens up as a background process if i go to the task manager and that's it.
It'll remain there forever and nothing else.
The game itself can open, but due to not being able to set the proper stuff though the launcher, it suffers visually

[TAW]

引用自 Milo Ran：

引用自 TAW：

Done all that stuff, launcher.exe just refuses to work

Like when you click on it and nothing start at all? Not even a black screen or anything that pop up? Hmm.. have you try running it in admin mode? Maybe you can try updating your graphic drivers and reinstall the game? Anyway, what is your specs like? Are you running Windows 10 too?

Yeah, windows 10

[Milo Ran]

引用自 TAW：

I Can't open the game launcher in order to pick the resolution . . . maybe someone could copy paste their config.cfg contents in here ?

Anyway, here are my config content:

#!TXT#CFG_FILE#
STRUCT "root"
KEY "systeminfo" BOOL TRUE
KEY "nosound" BOOL FALSE
KEY "stencil" BOOL TRUE
KEY "use_safe_refresh" BOOL FALSE
KEY "force_texs_mutable" BOOL FALSE
KEY "video_mode" INT 19
KEY "gamma" FLOAT 1
KEY "va_main_buff_size" INT 0
KEY "force_old_va_mode" BOOL FALSE
KEY "fragm_progs" BOOL TRUE
KEY "vert_progs" BOOL TRUE
KEY "colors32b" BOOL TRUE
KEY "eax" BOOL FALSE
KEY "soundVolume" FLOAT 1
KEY "speechVolume" FLOAT 1
KEY "musicVolume" FLOAT 1
END_OF_STRUCT "root"


Anyway I read it from some other store, I'm not sure if it'll help:

from
KEY "use_safe_refresh" BOOL FALSE
to:
KEY "use_safe_refresh" BOOL TRUE