Resolution Setting

[Guderian41]

With the new update only one setting is available (2194 x 1234). Prior, I ran at
(3840 x 2160) without problems. If I select full screen game crashes. All other
elements seem to run fine. Anyone have suggestions???? Thanks.

[Hubert Cater]

The game may list 2194x1234 internally now but it will still be playing at the same resolution you were previously playing at which you mention is 3840x2160.

The reason it is listing it differently is because we've introduced the ability to play at multiple resolutions, for most PCs, however it looks like you are running at 175% scaling which just means that your PC at this setting will limit the game to just one resolution. The game also factors in what scaling you are running and this is why it shows at 2194x1234 because if you divide 3840 by 1.75 it is equal to 2194 and so on.

I'll admit this might all sound a bit confusing, but when you scale your resolution by 175% you are no longer actually running your desktop at 3840x2160, even if this is what Windows is saying you are running at, but rather 2194x1234 as the game is listing it.

Odd that it crashes when you attempt to run at full screen as what happens here is the game attempts to see if full screen mode is supported and typically will return a yes or no on that... it shouldn't crash but this could be system specific.

Even if full screen was supported it would look the same for you as right now the game should cover the full monitor screen same as it did prior to the patch but you would just possibly not have some full screen accelerations, but even here these would be very minor improvements to performance.

There is a but however with those running at high scaling like yourself that is causing the game to display in a smaller window after you go to the SETTINGS screen but this is being fixed and the update should be available soon.

Hubert

[Guderian41]

H. Cater, thanks for the quick response. If I read you correctly, I could re-set my
"Scaling" to 100% and the display would revert to normal, or wait for your fix and
this will occur automatically. Have I got that right?

(By the way, absolutely adore your game).

BCW

[GoldenTalon]

Having the same issue with scaling.

[Hubert Cater]

Thanks and glad to hear you are enjoying the game :)

Just to confirm, if you launch the game, does it currently display across your entire screen? If so then there is nothing you need to do as it is already displaying the same as it always did despite it showing in the SETTINGS screen that the resolution is 2194 x 1234.

Alternatively, if it is cutting off the game window after you go to the SETTINGS screen, then the temporary workaround is the following:

1) Navigate to the following folder on your PC:

C:\Users\<username>\Documents\My Games\Strategic Command WWII - World at War

2) Open the file called SC3.ini

3) Change these lines to the following and then save and close the file:

#ORIGINAL_SCREEN_WIDTH= 0
#ORIGINAL_SCREEN_HEIGHT= 0
#WINDOW_WIDTH= 0
#WINDOW_HEIGHT= 0

4) Launch the game and it should work just fine after that.

The next update will correct the issue with the window being cutoff after you go the SETTINGS screen so these steps will no longer be necessary.

[Guderian41]

My issue was the second case. Followed your "work-around", and all seems fine
now. Thanks again. :)

(For those that use this "work-around", be aware that if you change, or add mods,
you'll have to reset the file again after each change. Once your happy with no more
mod changes, your good to go).

BCW

[Hubert Cater]

Great to hear and as mentioned this should be fixed shortly so hopefully no more headaches on this one... again apologies for the temporary inconvenience.

[Kornstalx]

I know this is an old thread but after returning to SC after taking a break, I wanted to chime in with some tips for anyone else suffering the Windows DPI scaling woes like I was. I hobbled together some VBS functions that will allow you to have two windows shortcuts that you can use to toggle your DPI scaling automatically without having to fumble through display settings every time you wanted to play SC, then back to your desktop normal settings when exiting.

Basically you create two .bat files, one to down-scale and one to up-scale.

Scale Down:

 
@ECHO OFF

explorer ms-settings:display
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 > nul

:VBSDynamicBuild
SET TempVBSFile=%tmp%\~tmpSendKeysTemp.vbs
IF EXIST "%TempVBSFile%" DEL /F /Q "%TempVBSFile%"
ECHO Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") >>"%TempVBSFile%"
ECHO Wscript.Sleep 50                                     >>"%TempVBSFile%"
ECHO WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{UP 1}"            >>"%TempVBSFile%"
ECHO Wscript.Sleep 50                                     >>"%TempVBSFile%"
ECHO WshShell.SendKeys "%%{F4}"                           >>"%TempVBSFile%"

CSCRIPT //nologo "%TempVBSFile%"
EXIT

Scale Up:

 
@ECHO OFF

explorer ms-settings:display
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 > nul

:VBSDynamicBuild
SET TempVBSFile=%tmp%\~tmpSendKeysTemp.vbs
IF EXIST "%TempVBSFile%" DEL /F /Q "%TempVBSFile%"
ECHO Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") >>"%TempVBSFile%"
ECHO Wscript.Sleep 50                                     >>"%TempVBSFile%"
ECHO WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{DOWN 1}"          >>"%TempVBSFile%"
ECHO Wscript.Sleep 50                                     >>"%TempVBSFile%"
ECHO WshShell.SendKeys "%%{F4}"                           >>"%TempVBSFile%"

CSCRIPT //nologo "%TempVBSFile%"
EXIT

Running either batch will open the desktop DPI scaling window, then tab down to the appropriate combo box, and basically press up or down arrow to change the scaling. It's not silent and you can see what it's doing. If you have a slower computer you may need to adjust the two SLEEPs above in each .bat to suit your system. If you are running an older build of Win10 (before the Creator's update) you will need to take out two of the {TAB}s as that update added more options to the Windows DPI scaling window, and in previous versions you only needed one.

Change the Up/Down jumps from {DOWN 1} to {DOWN 2} or {DOWN 3} depending on how far you want each jump to be. For instance, if you run 125% desktop scaling then DOWN 1 would turn scaling off completely (100%). If you're at 150% scaling, you'll need DOWN 2 to jump back to just 100%.

You get the gist. Google how to make a batch file if you need to.
Enjoy.