"Resolution must be lower than desktop"

hitanzo
hitanzo Posts: 21 Arc User
edited May 2009 in Support Desk
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obv. it's smaller. >.>
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  • surtr
    surtr Posts: 3,378 Perfect World Employee
    edited April 2009
    Your desktop resolution has a height of 720, while you're trying to set the game's resolution to have a height of 768.
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  • hitanzo
    hitanzo Posts: 21 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    Well I just set it to 1280 x 768 and it still does not work. -_- They need to remove this stupid thing.
  • Lord_of_wind - Sanctuary
    Lord_of_wind - Sanctuary Posts: 110 Arc User
    edited April 2009
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    i think u should select this resoultion 1280X 720 for game
  • hitanzo
    hitanzo Posts: 21 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    I WOULD if it would LET me. ~_~ Thing is, that it has to be < the desktop resolution not <=. which is very very very ****. Also the game needs to go above the toolbar not behind it.
  • surtr
    surtr Posts: 3,378 Perfect World Employee
    edited April 2009
    If you're running it in windowed mode, it must be SMALLER than your desktop resolution, not the same size. Is it possible to increase your desktop resolution?
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    The gods' swords shine in the darkness, like stars in the night
    Mountains collapse into rubble and fiends shall fall
    Man walks the road to ruin as the sky splits in two
  • ehera
    ehera Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    I'm guessing by toolbar you mean your Taskbar (Bar that also has the Start Menu on it). You can set the taskbar not to always be on top of other windows by following these steps.

    Right click anywhere on it that is empty and selecting properties.
    Then uncheck the "Keep the taskbar on top of other windows" box.
    Click Ok and your done, other windows are now allowed to be overtop the taskbar.
  • Mahaylow - Sanctuary
    Mahaylow - Sanctuary Posts: 13 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    Or you can have it full screen and take care of the probem b:victory
  • sarkastian
    sarkastian Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    Yes, if you want the game res to match your screen res, you apparently don't want it windowed. So uncheck the "Windowed" box. I have no problem full screen with the game res matching my screen res. If you have to switch periodically to another running app, just alt+tab. PW is slow to respond to task switching, but it will respond eventually. It's not like some full screen apps that stop responding if forced to lose focus.
  • hitanzo
    hitanzo Posts: 21 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    Mahaylow - Sanctuary wrote: »
    Or you can have it full screen and take care of the probem b:victory

    for why I can't do this please see http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=253062
    Surtr wrote: »
    If you're running it in windowed mode, it must be SMALLER than your desktop resolution, not the same size. Is it possible to increase your desktop resolution?

    I did do that and got it to the right size but it's under the tool bar and read below as to why I can't do that.
    sarkastian wrote: »
    Yes, if you want the game res to match your screen res, you apparently don't want it windowed. So uncheck the "Windowed" box. I have no problem full screen with the game res matching my screen res. If you have to switch periodically to another running app, just alt+tab. PW is slow to respond to task switching, but it will respond eventually. It's not like some full screen apps that stop responding if forced to lose focus.

    If I do that then the taskbar is always hidden. There should be a way to force the program to always be on top of the taskbar.
  • surtr
    surtr Posts: 3,378 Perfect World Employee
    edited April 2009
    As Ehera said earlier, right click on the task bar, click on Properties, and uncheck "Keep task bar on top of other windows."
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    Mountains collapse into rubble and fiends shall fall
    Man walks the road to ruin as the sky splits in two
  • hitanzo
    hitanzo Posts: 21 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    not going to do that cause then it messes up everything esle. I like seeing the taskbar for except for when I'm in a game.
  • Revolte - Heavens Tear
    Revolte - Heavens Tear Posts: 314 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    hitanzo wrote: »
    I like seeing the taskbar for except for when I'm in a game.

    well if you dont like seeing the taskbar when your in a game then use full screen mode and you wont see it.

    If you want to see the task bar then do what was stated before or play in window mode.

    MAKE SURE you are infact keeping the GAMES resolution smaller then your computers. for example if your computer is at 1700 x 720 then your game needs to be the same or smaller not anything bigger.
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  • Revolte - Heavens Tear
    Revolte - Heavens Tear Posts: 314 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    hitanzo wrote: »
    Well I just set it to 1280 x 768 and it still does not work. -_- They need to remove this stupid thing.


    set your games resolution to the same as your computers. if that doesnt work then make your games resolution smaller then yoru computers.
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  • hitanzo
    hitanzo Posts: 21 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    Revolte - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    well if you dont like seeing the taskbar when your in a game then use full screen mode and you wont see it.

    If you want to see the task bar then do what was stated before or play in window mode.

    MAKE SURE you are infact keeping the GAMES resolution smaller then your computers. for example if your computer is at 1700 x 720 then your game needs to be the same or smaller not anything bigger.

    I WOULD go fullscreen if only I could alt-tab out of it. I've already made another thread about it in here and have yet to get a awnser that fixes it.

    I WOULD keep the games resolution at my desktop but it won't let me since it has to be LESS THAN. It's not LESS THAN OR EQUAL TOO. I currently have it at 1280 x 720 but when I try to set the resolution to 1280 x 720 it says it must be lower than the desktop. And the only size smaller is 800 x 600. Thankfully I'm able to drag the window to make it bigger, but I can still see the taskbar.
  • hitanzo
    hitanzo Posts: 21 Arc User
    edited April 2009
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  • manfor
    manfor Posts: 117 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    Unfortunately this is windows we're using and it doesn't have a way for you to make a single window (program) stay on top of the taskbar and also have the taskbar stay on top of other windows. The only way I know of is to use a third party program to make the game window always on top but unless the program you're using has that functionality built in, you have to use a third party program to do it. Windows itself doesn't have that.

    So you're going to have to either 1)get used to it, 2)switch it to stay on top when you go to view other windows, or 3)get whatever your problem with fullscreen is figured out. All I can tell you is good luck.

    oh oh wait, I just remembered. I used to have the same problem as you when I alt + tabbed (but like most others the language packs solved my problem) so until I found out about the language packs whenever I wanted to switch to another window I told the game to switch to windowed mode and once I was done outside of of the game I switched back to fullscreen. If when you switch to windowed mode the game window doesn't show up (looks like its missing) right click on its icon on the taskbar, select move, then using the arrow keys move the window down and to the right. For some reason it would always be to the top left for me. Yes its more annoying than just alt + tab but at least you can switch back to the game in fullscreen without problems most the time.

    Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
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  • hitanzo
    hitanzo Posts: 21 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    Well the thing is I played a private Ragnarok server and always ran that in windowed mode and it always went over the taskbar. So it IS possible.
  • AzureRequiem - Heavens Tear
    AzureRequiem - Heavens Tear Posts: 105 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    Kamina's smexyness is OBVIOUSLY too much for PWI
  • Byakko - Dreamweaver
    Byakko - Dreamweaver Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    to the 'i want it on-top of windows taskbar'

    crtl+alt+del, under applications > right click on the program (PW in this case)
    + Bring to front
    (doubt it'll work pretty sure it's the same as just focusing on 'x' program)

    Unless you mess about with their .ini to change res tough =/

    Alternative:

    Start > Control Panel > Taskbar&Task menu

    tick auto-hide, (you can leave 'Always on top' ticked) this'll auto hide the taskbar, but it'll reappear if your mouse hits the bottom of the screen.
    your stuck in having lower resolution if you want windowed mode unless you find/create a 3pp that'll allow you to do otherwise.

    btw editting .ini is naughty apparently + so are 3pp's probably b:chuckle
  • aazadan
    aazadan Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2009
    Set the windowed mode smaller. Once the game loads, just stretch the window to the size you want.
  • drizztdourden7
    drizztdourden7 Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2009
    Same freaking issue with me 2...
    Have a laptop Vistaed and I can't deal with the f@#^ing resolution both windoed or full screen (In fact the damn programme won't allow me to switch on the full mode,'cause when I do,it throws the bloody ballbreaker:" "Resolution must be lower than desktop")...
    Help'n' cheers...
    Greece out
  • surtr
    surtr Posts: 3,378 Perfect World Employee
    edited May 2009
    What's your current desktop resolution, and what resolution are you attempting to set PWI to?
    ==/Senior QA Lead/==

    Surtr from the south wielding fire
    The gods' swords shine in the darkness, like stars in the night
    Mountains collapse into rubble and fiends shall fall
    Man walks the road to ruin as the sky splits in two
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