Screen Resolution?

[Alex]

Hi, I tried playing the game today, but I only have the following options for screen resolution:

Aspect Ratio: 16:10 Widescreen or 16:9 Widescreen
Resolutions: 800x500 or 1024x640 or 1280x800

Are these the only options they give us? I have a CRT black Dell monitor. I think it's supposed to be like 1600x1200 or something like that.

Am I out of luck?

Thanks for the help.

[JDaremo Fireheart]

CRT, wow. That's old school
Time for an LCD upgrade my friend

[Alex]

Originally posted by JDaremo Fireheart:

CRT, wow. That's old school
Time for an LCD upgrade my friend

You didn't really answer my question, but since you mention it, I prefer the CRT to a really bright widescreen LCD thing.

[Qnomei]

You can set it manually in the skyrim.ini (the one in your documents folder, not the steam folder) but the HUD will get cut off if you don't use a 16:9 or 16:10 resolution. In your case, that would be either 1600x900 or 1600x1000. If you don't want black bars, there are UI mods and other fixes for older aspect ratios.

[Pheonix]

The Skyrim Options hud will show whatever resolutions your video card has available in your video driver control panel. You should be able to choose the highest resolution your monitor will display or whatever is best for your eyes from there. If there is a missing resolution, then you will need to manually create it in your video card driver control panel...and it will show up in the Skyrim Options hud.

To create a new resolution, google search it according to your video card.

The other option is to run Skyrim in windowed borderless mode. It will then run at the resoution of your desktop.

[Alex]

Originally posted by Qnomei:

You can set it manually in the skyrim.ini (the one in your documents folder, not the steam folder) but the HUD will get cut off if you don't use a 16:9 or 16:10 resolution. In your case, that would be either 1600x900 or 1600x1000. If you don't want black bars, there are UI mods and other fixes for older aspect ratios.

I found the skyrim.ini, but I am not sure which detail to modify to get it how I want.

Here's what it has inside:

[General]
sLanguage=ENGLISH
sTestFile1=Dawnguard.esm
sTestFile2=HearthFires.esm
sTestFile3=Dragonborn.esm

uExterior Cell Buffer=36

[Display]
fShadowLODMaxStartFade=1000.0
fSpecularLODMaxStartFade=2000.0
fLightLODMaxStartFade=3500.0
fLightLODStartFade=3500.0
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=2048
bAllowScreenshot=1
fTreesMidLODSwitchDist=9999999.0000
fFirstSliceDistance=2000.0000
fDynamicDOFFarBlur=0.4
fDDOFFocusCenterweightExt=2
fDOFMaxDepthParticipation=10000

[Audio]
fMusicDuckingSeconds=6.0
fMusicUnDuckingSeconds=8.0
fMenuModeFadeOutTime=3.0
fMenuModeFadeInTime=1.0

[Grass]
bAllowCreateGrass=1
bAllowLoadGrass=0
fGrassMaxStartFadeDistance=7000.0000
fGrassMinStartFadeDistance=0.0000

[Decals]
uMaxSkinDecalPerActor=60

[LightingShader]
fDecalLODFadeStart=0.45
fDecalLODFadeEnd=0.5

[Imagespace]
iRadialBlurLevel=2

[GeneralWarnings]
SGeneralMasterMismatchWarning=One or more plugins could not find the correct versions of the master files they depend on. Errors may occur during load or game play. Check the "Warnings.txt" file for more information.

[Archive]
sResourceArchiveList=Skyrim - Misc.bsa, Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Skyrim - Interface.bsa, Skyrim - Animations.bsa, Skyrim - Meshes0.bsa, Skyrim - Meshes1.bsa, Skyrim - Sounds.bsa
sResourceArchiveList2=Skyrim - Voices_en0.bsa, Skyrim - Textures0.bsa, Skyrim - Textures1.bsa, Skyrim - Textures2.bsa, Skyrim - Textures3.bsa, Skyrim - Textures4.bsa, Skyrim - Textures5.bsa, Skyrim - Textures6.bsa, Skyrim - Textures7.bsa, Skyrim - Textures8.bsa, Skyrim - Patch.bsa
bLoadArchiveInMemory=1
sArchiveToLoadInMemoryList=Skyrim - Animations.bsa

[Combat]
fMagnetismStrafeHeadingMult=0.0
fMagnetismLookingMult=0.0

[Actor]
bUseNavMeshForMovement=0

[Papyrus]
fPostLoadUpdateTimeMS=500.0
bEnableLogging=0
bEnableTrace=0
bLoadDebugInformation=0

Originally posted by Pheonix:

The Skyrim Options hud will show whatever resolutions your video card has available in your video driver control panel. You should be able to choose the highest resolution your monitor will display or whatever is best for your eyes from there. If there is a missing resolution, then you will need to manually create it in your video card driver control panel...and it will show up in the Skyrim Options hud.

To create a new resolution, google search it according to your video card.

The other option is to run Skyrim in windowed borderless mode. It will then run at the resoution of your desktop.

Well my desktop is running at 1280x1024, but that is not one of the options the game gives me. And when I do borderless and windowed, it still only takes up about half of my screen.

[JW]

Change these lines in SkyrimPrefs.ini:

bBorderless=0
bFull Screen=1
iSize H=1200
iSize W=1600

[Alex]

Originally posted by Caius Cosades:

Change these lines in SkyrimPrefs.ini:

bBorderless=0
bFull Screen=1
iSize H=1200
iSize W=1600

That helped, though I had to tinker with it a bit. I ended up doing aspect ratio 16:10 and H = 1024 W = 1280, which looks like I fits right for the most part. A little bit is cut off on the right side, that I've noticed. Thanks though!

[Qnomei]

Originally posted by Alex:

I found the skyrim.ini, but I am not sure which detail to modify to get it how I want.

Whoops, I meant the skyrimprefs.ini. Sorry.

[Alex]

Originally posted by Qnomei:

Originally posted by Alex:

I found the skyrim.ini, but I am not sure which detail to modify to get it how I want.

Whoops, I meant the skyrimprefs.ini. Sorry.

No problem ;)