ATTN: Tom, Gamelauncher Mode Issue

[dmauro]

I am running GameLauncher mode rotated at 90 degrees cw. I have soft15khz installed and the 321x240 resolution is tested and working, however, when I try to tell GameEx to set its resolution to 321x240 (booting into it from a 640x480 desktop resolution), I get a weird rolling and warping of the image. It's not quite like the refresh rate is simply off because it's also bending the image as it rolls, and it's rolling pretty quickly. I can fix the problem by not forcing GameEx into the 321x240 resolution and simply making that my desktop resolution, but this isn't an acceptable solution as I need my desktop res to be 640x480 for other reasons. I tried using an AHK script that changes the resolution before booting GameEx, but then when I play a game and then come back to GameEx, it goes back to 640x480.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

[Brian Hoffman]

  dmauro said:

I am running GameLauncher mode rotated at 90 degrees cw. I have soft15khz installed and the 321x240 resolution is tested and working, however, when I try to tell GameEx to set its resolution to 321x240 (booting into it from a 640x480 desktop resolution), I get a weird rolling and warping of the image. It's not quite like the refresh rate is simply off because it's also bending the image as it rolls, and it's rolling pretty quickly. I can fix the problem by not forcing GameEx into the 321x240 resolution and simply making that my desktop resolution, but this isn't an acceptable solution as I need my desktop res to be 640x480 for other reasons. I tried using an AHK script that changes the resolution before booting GameEx, but then when I play a game and then come back to GameEx, it goes back to 640x480.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

post your log and gameex.ini please.

[dmauro]

Here is the log and ini when the deskop is in 640x480, I use the launcher script to set the desktop to 321x240 and boot the vertical version of GameEx, everything is fine, I start up Galaga88, quit, and when I get back into GameEx, it's in 640x480 (and this time it was also illegible although sometimes when I come back it's legible, just tucked into one corner).

log.txt

[dmauro]

I figured out why it's rolling. It's trying to switch to 640x288, which I haven't fixed yet and it rolls across the screen), instead of going to the specified 321x240. I thought maybe this was because I didn't have Arcade Mode set to on, but I turned it on, and it's still not going to the proper resolution. Here's my current ini and log.

log.txt

[dmauro]

Problem Solved!

I was using the ArcadeVGA Low-res theme. This theme is apparently NOT low res. I had to switch to the GameLauncher theme to get it to actually boot into the proper low resolution I specified.

[bkenobi]

If you like one of the higher resolution themes, you might be able to use the Theme Editor to scale it down. Most of the time GameEx will automatically scale themes to your resolution correctly, but it appears you may have found a bug in GameLauncher mode (you could also just call it an incompatible feature for that mode rather than a bug).

[dmauro]

To be honest, I don't really care so much about the theme in the low res vertical one. This works just fine, but thanks for the tip!