Fullscreen displays 1/4 of the screen

[Sirius]

Without compatibility mode or on Windows 8 mode the game works fine, but displays only 1/4 of the screen.

I tried to change the compatibility mode to something under Windows 8. The fullscreen works, but the game display some bugs.

Disable display scaling on high DPI Settings doesn't work for me.

Running Win10, on an i7 with AMD Radeon R7 200 series card.

Thanks in advance!

[Daya.Mar.Sana]

Sounds like your having the same problem I was having with screen scaling resolutions to your monitor incorrectly.

I'd have to look it up for nvidia.. but in amd radeon settings you can get to the screen scaling options by.. go to the home page hit preferances and click additional settings. May have to set a 720 or 1080 screen format too to get the scaling to show up... Makes me miss the days of simple DVI when it autofit to the screen XD.

Mines being annoying but that is were the settings are hiding for the hd formats. That or its under display after you set an HD format for your screen. They updated this program and moved stuff sorry. Yea here it is, HDMI Scaling under display.

-edit: Of course you could just try windowed mode but.. yea I dont really like that mode either so thats a thing.

[zeevius]

I've run into the same issue rending the game unplayable for me. I've tried tinkering with my Nvidia settings but to no avail. I hope someone finds a more generic solution to this.

[Sirius]

windowed mode it works. The problem happens only when I choose Fullscreen mode and start the game. Main menu it works.

I have the original game on CD: Seven Kingdoms II - Fryhtan Wars. The game works fine in the same computer.

[zeevius]

Windowed does work but it's just not the same

[Sirius]

I hit ALT+TAB when the game started. After that, when I back to the game, the screen does an auto resizing and the fullscreen works fine. The game is working now.

Unfortunately, I have to hit ALT+TAB always when I start the game, but it's playable now! Can you test with your game?

Thanks to everyone :)

[Daya.Mar.Sana]

Well the Alt tab thing didnt do anything for me. Cant even see my mouse cursor which is a step worse XD... ah.. some day this game will work for me too..

Oh.. Win 10 with Radeon R9 390 & latest drivers.

[zeevius]

@Sirius it sometimes works on my machine. Sometimes doesn't. No quite sure why... Also it sometimes freezes the game when I tab out

[Daya.Mar.Sana]

Well I was able to have a chance to play with a friend, and their pc was actually doing this bug atleast I think thats was the issue.

This is the one were it only shows a forth of the game screen in the top left of your desktop right? Alt-Tabbing does fix this one if you can get the game to minimize first.

The only 'possible' thing I could imagine would be the CoreTemp or Sidebar that was running on the pc. Even turned off antivirus and updated drivers and tried out some compatibility things.

--Edit: Testing results.
Gonna just list a few different computer configurations here I tested and found this bug.
AMD Phenom.. with AMD 6850
Intel i3 with Intel Graphics
Intel i7 with Nvidia 310m
AMD Opteron... yes I know.. R9 390..
all of these had windows 10 64 bit and alt tabbing did fix the issue.
Also the issue is intermittant and does not actually keep happening so its not hardware or driver related that I can pinpoint.
Interestingly on the i7 with the 310 the issue goes away for awhile I think as it stopped doing it for a bit here.

A second setup of the AMD Opteron system, identical in hardware really.. did not have this issue at all running latest drivers and a full directX redistributable from microsofts website..
Now if only the game had some kind of logging method so we could track down the bug and maybe end it for good.

[Korzh]

Hi there! You must set game in compatibility to Windows XP and it runs full 1920x1080. But my game speed is not fast at preview video, but little freezes.

[Daya.Mar.Sana]

Incorrect, Compatability modes under various settings had pretty much zero impact on this issue.

-edit: I did check this, I resolved this issue awhile ago. It is actually an issue with scaling on high dpi setups.
So under your compatability table uncheck literally everything and clear that windows XP compatability mode.
then select the one box for "Disable display saling on high DPI settings"

The cause of this game doing funny stuff with the display settings on modern computers is probably from its age of the original engine. I would guess it hasnt been fixed because its not an easy thing to fix, like recompiling the entire game exe or something.

I should also note that using a 1080p / HD display means you have to be aware of your display scaling options for some reason.

[Korzh]

Good day Dayaa.Mar.Sana! I try click right mouse button on my 7K2.exe file and "Disable display saling on high DPI settings", but no change something - game speed no so fast, how it shows at video. My game runs not smooth, little slow speed. Howewer, If I turn off "Compatibility to WinXP" so my game at 1920x1080 have 1/4 view of my monitor. "Main Menu" of game is fullscreen, but "game process" in Training or Campaign shows 1/4 of my screen at top left angle window.

[Daya.Mar.Sana]

questions for you then
what is the game speed set to? press [ or ] to change it while playing

I would also like to know a little information about your pc, operating system and video card.

-in interest of helping and details.
I use windows 10, have a Radeon R9 390, and I have Sony Bravia in 1080p
my Radeon Settings (driver settings), I have disabled both "Virtual Super Resolution" and 'GPU Scaling" as these are known to cause some issues like this one in games.

-My own game does not do this bug anymore. I know from experiece that even setting a different resolution on windows can cause wierd things to happen to.

[Korzh]

Thank you very much! =)) Its all done! There are no keyboard configuration in the game, and I am use [ and ] keys for speed of the game! Units now go little faster (its 6 or 7 speed)! I am too use Windows 10, AMD FX8350, Iiyama XB2483HSU monitor, 8Gb Crucial Ballistix Tactical, Sapphire Radeon R9 380X! So I am understand that its was my standart speed and its ok! I will you Happy New year!

[Daya.Mar.Sana]

you too, hope you can enjoy the game now.

[Korzh]

Thank you! =))