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From: Josef Drexler
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:23

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Tom Cumming wrote:

> On 11/08/04 00:24, CTM wrote:
> 
>> My 'normal' screen size is 1024X768 on a 17" monitor. I have tried using
>> the TTCConfig file, setting it to full screen and the game pointer but
>> the screen and the PC crashed on me.
> 
> That is strange. Maybe your video card is incompatible for some
> reason.

That looks like it, yes.

>> Again I am not sure why but it seems to be
>> my graphics card or the way that windows has been set up on this machine.
>> What you say about the resolution makes sense if I am trying to get the
>> game to run in 1024X768 mode and the maximum and best size is 640x480.
> 
> 640x480 is the *only* resolution that TTD can run in. Remember
> this game came out in the mid-1990s, when 640x480 was about all
> that most monitors could handle! The only thing you can change is
> whether it runs in full screen, or whether it runs in a window.

Well with TTDPatch you can also "stretch" the Windows size if you like, but 
that does slow down the graphics and doesn't actually change the
resolution, it only doubles some pixels.  If you want to try that, look
into the "stretchwindow" option.

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