Out of Range

[carak.dur]

Hi everybody! When I start Concursion my monitor goes out of range, so I cannot change resolution to fit.. Is there a *.cfg file to edit or something similar?

[76561198018245183]

If you're using Windows, it'll be in a folder called ConcursionSaves, which can be found in your Documents folder. If you're using a Mac, search for ConcursionSaves and it'll bring up the folder. Either way, the files you're looking for inside that folder are called Global.gmu and Global.bmu.

Unfortunately, the files are encrypted (read: show a lot of meaningless junk when opened), so there's no way I know of to force Concursion to use another resolution. :(

[Noname1122]

Actually, I bet I know exactly what's going on here, and how to solve it.

Are you on a Windows machine, likely on a machine with a touchscreen? If so (or even if not), the DPI settings of the machine might default differently than most machines, and cause some graphical content to zoom, sometimes in an undesirable way.

On the bright side! There's an easy one-time fix for this.
1) Find the .EXE for the Concursion game.
That's probably somewhere like: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Concursion\Concursion

2) Right click the .EXE and select "Properties".

3) Go to the "Compatibility" tab.

4) Check the box marked "Disable Display scaling on high DPI settings".

That should be it! If I'm right, that should be a one-time fix, and you should be good to go!
If this doesn't work, let me know, and we can dig deeper.

Sorry for the trouble, Carak!

Cheers,
Danny

[Noname1122]

Note taken, for the config files, though, Expack. They're not encrypted, but they are a pretty hard to read data string, for humans. Basically, just a super compact set of booleans and strings, etc all stuck together to keep it small.

That being said, a save file's so small already... there's probably no reason to worry about size. :)
For our next game, maybe we'll look at a more human readable format.

[carak.dur]

Thx for the answer but that doesn't solve my problem. My resolution is 1440x900 and is a normal PC..

But now I tried to play with setting and, in the "Compatibility" tab, I check the "Run in 640x480" and it works!

:) Thx for the faster answer!

[Noname1122]

Thanks for the feedback, Carak!
I'll look into that, and take note for the future.

Thanks very much! :)

[76561198018245183]

I'm curious, Noname1122: have you seen the problem carak.dur reported under Windows occur on OSX machines?

[Noname1122]

Hey Expack,

Not that I'm aware of, no. The graphics APIs we're using explicitly support High DPI on OSX, but not on Windows, and we've explicitly used them for OSX.

Cheers!