Screen Resolution

In addition to the above, the UI components are literally the exact same size. They just look a bit smaller on a widescreen monitor because you have more space to spread them out in.

If you prefer things condensed, just play in windowed mode in a 4:3 resolution you like. Heck, it's the only way you can get anywhere with the Tideborn, anyway.

Sycorx - Harshlands wrote: »

I have no idea why the image is like that but both are DEFINITELY widescreen. The resolution on the second computer is not 800 x 600 it is only on PWI that the resolution is this. The actual resolution on the second computer is 1920 x 1200. I don't know why is doesn't have black at the edges. If computer 1 didn't have black at the edges it would be sweet but...

Did you use PW's screencap function or the PrntScrn key? PrntScrn takes a literal screen print of what's displayed on the monitor and would have been the better choice for this, as PW's function seems to print it at the selected resolution based on what I can gather from this.

What I have to offer is that Win7 likely is forcing the resolution to remain constant. You'll probably have to go into the right-click menu on the actual PW EXE file and find whatever 7 has for a compatibility tab to force PW to run at a lower resolution and change your PW settings to match.

Well, I don't personally have Win7, but I'd imagine it's not too different.

What you need to do is go into Program Files (or wherever PW is installed), find the "element" folder, right-click "elementclient.exe" and go to the Compatibility tab, and hope it has something a bit better than Vista's measly single option of running it at 640x480.

Either that, or if you're not afraid to launch it through outside software, there's a program called Advanced Game Loader I found for free on a Google search. You can use that to add elementclient.exe to a list and change the screen resolution to a lower one individually and launch the game from there, but I can't guarantee how stable it will be, as I've done minimal testing with it and ended up not even using it for the game I got it for because it turned out to be a game settings issue, rather than a speed one like I originally thought.

A safer bet, although really annoying, would be to just change your display resolution for your computer every time you want to play, or maybe just change it to a lower one and leave it that way. You can probably do that by right-clicking your desktop, but things are so different from that point on between XP and Vista that I'm afraid I have no guess as to where to go from there using 7.