Forcing WS resolution on non-WS monitor - is it a VBT?
Annan:
Since I changed from my widescreen laptop to the non-widescreen monitor I use with my desktop, the game only lets me see either wants/fears or motives when playing in windowed mode. This is full of suck and made of fail. If I play in fullscreen I can see both, but then I can't multitask like I want to.
I've started thinking that if I could make the game think it's on a widescreen monitor that's as wide as my monitor is, but less high, it'd let me see both. I'm fine with having "unused" screen over and under the sims window. However, this might not work. I'm also slightly worried this might be a VBT, since I don't know a lot about monitors and what might be bad for them.
The monitor has a native resolution of 1024x768, which is also what the game resolution is set at both for fullscreen and windowed.
purplebunny:
I can't see it as being a bad thing, myself, as I do the exact opposite... play in full screen mode on a widescreen laptop. I just had to tweak a few settings with my video card to do so.
Though maybe I should contemplate actually setting the game up to run in widescreen mode one of these days... would've made filming in widescreen a lot easier.
J. M. Pescado:
Windowed resolutions can be set to anything without harm. It is not possible to set your fullscreen resolution to a resolution that is not supported by your monitor, your monitor simply will not do it and the effort will fail.
Khan of Wyrms:
I do not use windowed mode, but presumably would you not have to run the resolution of windowed mode at less than the monitor's native in order to have the whole game viewable in the window? The task bar takes up space on the screen, for one. As far as I know you can force the game into virtually any resolution you want to without permanent damage to the game using shortcut tags.
Quote from: RTFM
WINDOWED MODE
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To run The Sims 2 Seasons Expansion Pack in windowed mode, first create a shortcut to the game by right-clicking on sims2ep5.exe and selecting "Create Shortcut." Then, right-click the shortcut and select properties. At the end of the "target" line, add a space and the text "-w" (without quotes). Click OK, and then launch the game by double-clicking on the shortcut. Running the game in a window will allow you to more easily switch between different programs, but please note that running other programs at the same time as The Sims 2 will be detrimental to the game's performance. Also note that edge scrolling does not function in windowed mode. If you experience any graphical anomalies, please make sure your desktop is set to 32-bit color.
Other command line options:
-w windowed mode
-f fullscreen mode
-nosound run with no sound
-r800x600 run at 800 x 600 resolution
-r(w)x(h) run at (w) x (h) resolution
Annan:
KoW - you mean I should lower the resolution instead? I think I've tried that, but it failed.
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