Resolution

[Overkill]

Hey, just wondering if there was any way to change or over ride the resolution to use 1440p or even just 1080p? The lack of options for using custom resolutions is a bad choice.

[󠁳Bakhtosh]

The game only supports two resolutions (1024x768 & 1280x800). But if you enable GPU scaling in the options of your video card driver settings you can play the game without black bars.

I wrote more about this in section A.1 of the Known problems & solutions thread.

Remember the game was originally released 2009 and was already late back then...

[Overkill]

I know it's an old game, but many old games still offer multiple resolutions or at least a note cfg file that you can edit, I can't play this game in this state.

[󠁳Bakhtosh]

Originally posted by Overkill:

I can't play this game in this state.

Can you explain what this means?

I've described how to play the game without black bars (fullscreen) in the section A.1 of the Known problems & solutions thread.

Does "I can't play this game in this state" mean that this doesn't work at your system?
If so, can you please describe in detail what happens if you try or why this doesn't work?

Or does "I can't play this game in this state" mean that this does work for you, but that you don't want to play the game this game, because its too blurry or pixelated for your liking?

Originally posted by Overkill:

I know it's an old game, but many old games still offer multiple resolutions or at least a note cfg file that you can edit

And there are many old game that don't offer multiple resolutions. It often depends on the kind of game. It's easier to offer higher resolutions for a 3D game.

But Ghost Pirates isn't a 3D game. Ghost Pirates only has 3D charakters but 2D backgrounds. And the backgrounds have a fixed resolution. They simply get blurry or pixelated if you scale them up to a higher resolution. So without creating higher resolution backgrounds (a lot of work) only 3D characters would look if they would be rendered in a higher resolution (compared to being rendered in a lower resolution and then being upscaled).

Ghost Pirates has a editable config file. But you can't force higher resolutions that way.

To let the game render higher resolutions itself (instead of letting the supported resolutions upscale to the native screen resolution) the developers of the game have to release a patch or an update. And I don't think that will happen, because for such an old game there's nobody there who will pay for this work. Apart from the fact that the original main publisher (dtp entertainment AG) of the game doesn't exist anymore and that the developer of the game (Autumn Moon Entertainment) is a hollow shell now (afaik still owned by its founder but without employees).

[Overkill]

It works perfectly fine on my system, but at this poor resolution on a high end monitor at 4k, this is unplayable. Even at 1440 it looks like ♥♥♥♥. Not for me. I have 99 percent of the PNC games on steam, very few offer no option to change resolution, even the older ones.

[󠁳Bakhtosh]

Then I can only suggest to ask for a refund.