Resolution

[E V E D Z]

Is there any way to change in-game resolution? The game is absolutely great, i've played it on my iphone, but on the pc it's like minecraft or something. 1280x1024 plz. Any ideas?

[NomNom]

Escrito originalmente por loomis1975:

I just tried sizer, it made the windowed box bigger, but the game image stayed at 800 x 600 up in the left hand corner of the box.

Try turning off and on 3D then it'll expand on it's own, the game res will stay 800x600 but it'll strech to fit the window size.

[loomis1975]

Thanks, that worked perfectly.

[NomNom]

Escrito originalmente por loomis1975:

Thanks, that worked perfectly.

You’re welcome however I think putting the game full screen and turning off 3D acceleration, as resizing the window will eventually bring more jagged edges.
Overall it’s your choice everyone has their preferences

[Necromance]

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[᲼⁧⁧Kali]

Escrito originalmente por Axen:

Something definitely needs to be done about the resolution. I bought this game today and the res made me cry.

me too

[Bucketio]

2020... Still none...

[vizthex]

Escrito originalmente por justmiike:

Very disappointed that the developers don't seem to care to update a popular game. It's disgusting!

ikr. So many old games have this problem, they need to remaster them or do a full update or *something.*

[MogoJohn]

Might be too late for this post but is PVZ still playable on Window 10 guys?

[MrPappa]

I just played on WIN 10. Works fine here :)

[NxChO]

yes

[awesomesjg]

Hey all! I found a somewhat decent solution (Windows 10, intel/nvidia graphics cards):
Summary:
Although you can't convince the application (PvZ) itself to stretch, you can convince your computer to override the resolution settings that an application will load with -- check your graphics card settings:

Important Detail:
Note, so far I've only seen that this works to fix PvZ, idk what it does to other applications. At worst you can enable it for PvZ and disable it after.
IN BOTH OF THE ABOVE OPTIONS, CLOSE AND REOPEN PVZ AFTER YOU'VE MADE THE CHANGE.

Steps (based on your graphics card):
Intel:
1. from desktop right click and open up whatever graphics card settings menu you have.
2. If you're working with an intel graphics card, click "display", and then in 'scaling', select "Scale Full Screen". You can then click the "override application settings" checkbox, although idk if it does anything.

NVIDIA:
1. from desktop right click and open up the nvidia graphics card settings menu
2. If you have an nvidia graphics card, although I didn't have the options described in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymhAFwKWdOc) -- in case this ever 404's, it describes similar steps to the intel graphics card options
3. (the steps from the video above): off in the left hand side there should be a window of options ("3D-settings","Display", "Video") -- (I only had "3D-settings", but you might have all of them present). Inside the "Display" option, there should be an option to "Adjust desktop size and position". Select that, and for your display, you should see 3 options "aspect ratio", "full screen", or "no scaling".
4. SELECT "FULL SCREEN" as your option to override EA's absolute lack of interest in updating the game settings.

(Again) IN BOTH OF THE ABOVE OPTIONS, CLOSE AND REOPEN PVZ AFTER YOU'VE MADE THE CHANGE.

I hope this works for y'all! I was really ticked when I bought the game today for nostalgia and the resolution was trash.

[∩∩4r|<]

What works best for me with 3D Acceleration and 'widescreen support' = changing my native 1680 x 1050 resolution → 1280 x 960 (4:3 aspect) via Scale and layout (Windows 10). I get 15 fps more (75 Hz), and the CPU utilization is 50% less — although not much with this game running of course

[Kargath]

3D games easily scale to higher resolutions. A game like this based on 2D sprites can't do anything but stretch and look pixelated. And if you forcefully scale/stretch from a 4:3 or 5:4 resolution to 16:10 or 16:9 it looks horrible. But if you're one of those people who let their widescreen TVs stretch old SD shows horizontally and somehow can't tell the difference, ignorance is bliss.

[Ms.Bunny0²]

Escrito originalmente por Kargath:

3D games easily scale to higher resolutions. A game like this based on 2D sprites can't do anything but stretch and look pixelated. And if you forcefully scale/stretch from a 4:3 or 5:4 resolution to 16:10 or 16:9 it looks horrible. But if you're one of those people who let their widescreen TVs stretch old SD shows horizontally and somehow can't tell the difference, ignorance is bliss.

There are many technologies that smooth out pixels when 2D images are scaled up.

[BeauBastion.ttv]

not a perfect solution but this may help some people
https://www.wsgf.org/dr/plants-vs-zombies