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Miklos Donders wrote:
> 
> In article <32A54E10...@fhpv.umb.sk>, Kerry <ke...@fhpv.umb.sk> writes:
> >Dave Glue wrote:
> >>
> >> Samurai <snow...@msn.com> wrote in article <32A3BD...@msn.com>...
> >> > Till computers get faster, I'll run my games in VGA for the raw speed and
> >>
> >> > playability, immersion if you prefer.  (3D games like DUKE and QUAKE).
> >> > But you won't catch me playing the DOS version of RED ALERT, heh heh.
> >>
> >> Computers are faster- you just don't have one of them.  :)  People with
> >> good Pentiums can play Duke at 800*600 at over 30fps, and Quake at 512*384
> >> smoothly (more so if you have a Verite-based board).  VGA does suck- may be
> >> acceptable for you, but once you get a machine where you can run SVGA
> >> smoothly it's hard to go back.
> >
> >Oh, vga sucks? really?... and how you can run vga-only game in svga?
> >Running in a 5x5cm window in w95? Disgusting...
> >tell me why all the multi-resolution games are so poorly designed
> >- Quake: run at 320x200, burns good, menus, fonts, panels, and so,
> >  are good. Switching to 640x480, everyting(still talking
> > about menus,etc) is smaaaller, and when switching to 1024x768,
> > can ya see your ammo, health, etc?
> >- Abuse: 320x200, character and everything is good, but after switching
> >  to higher res's, everything gets so small, like to play Abuse
> >  with settlers character?
> >Is this so big problem to make everything equivalent at every
> >resolution?
> 
> does abuse have hi-res?!?! how do I activate this?
> 
> Miklos


I have to disappoint you Miklos, unless you`re only playing the Abuse 
demo. In the demo you can change the res by typing 'abuse -size ?' at 
the command line. It will show you the resolutions that your vidcard 
supports. However, Abuse was designed for low res. If you choose a 
higher res everything on screen gets smaller, and there`s more of the 
playing area revealed, spoiling some of the secrets and surprises. This 
is probably the reason why they removed this option in the registered 
game. You can only see the higher resolutions with the editor there.

Richard