World Map Clipping?

EIsea - Lost City
EIsea - Lost City Posts: 33 Arc User
edited January 2011 in Support Desk
Well, I have had this error on my computer, no matter what resolution I change the settings to, wether I paly in fullscreen or not. Baiscally, a good majority of the top and the bottom of the world map is cut off. It wouldn't be so much of a bother to me if it did not do it on the teleportation map aswell (as I can't zoom in, and a lot of teleports are cut off too).

Here is a screenshot: http://i834.photobucket.com/albums/zz269/_Hexen_/2011-01-2521-51-28.jpg?t=1295992852

Any idea how to fix this?
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  • ozimov
    ozimov Posts: 199 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Unfortunately, the teleport and game world maps are only fully viewable in a 4:3 aspect ratio, not a 16:9 etc. This has been a long known issue since the original game was released many years ago.

    To work around this issue, you can run the game in windowed mode in a more square shaped resolution so that you can see the map. Not a pretty solution, but the only solution that allows you to see the full map.

    My apologies.
  • EIsea - Lost City
    EIsea - Lost City Posts: 33 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Ah...
    Well, that sucks b:surrender
    Thanks for letting me know!
  • Tremblewith - Heavens Tear
    Tremblewith - Heavens Tear Posts: 1,558 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Ozimov wrote: »
    Unfortunately, the teleport and game world maps are only fully viewable in a 4:3 aspect ratio, not a 16:9 etc. This has been a long known issue since the original game was released many years ago.

    To work around this issue, you can run the game in windowed mode in a more square shaped resolution so that you can see the map. Not a pretty solution, but the only solution that allows you to see the full map.

    My apologies.

    I also have this same issue. I didn't have it on my old netbook, but about two months ago I swapped to a new top of the line laptop. The goal, was to be able to play PW in fullscreen 16:9 mode, and all in high quality. I was successful, but the map cut off and I am unable to teleport to Raging Tide. Nowadays, I fly from Arch to RT before doing Nirvana runs. I seriously hope this issue is fixed sometime soon. It's sad to see issues that plaque a game for nearly 3 years, with an active development team updating & patching the game nearly every single week.
  • Yukkuri - Heavens Tear
    Yukkuri - Heavens Tear Posts: 624 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Ozimov wrote: »
    Unfortunately, the teleport and game world maps are only fully viewable in a 4:3 aspect ratio, not a 16:9 etc. This has been a long known issue since the original game was released many years ago.

    Despite being a long known issue, it's also pure laziness from the developers. If it were the case that it's impossible for the map to scale depending on window size with the current programming, then fine. However, the fact that it scales down on vertical resolutions makes it inexcusable to not do the same with wide resolutions. If they'd just do that... That would be one less issue to see popping up on these forums every now and then.
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  • Fintan - Lost City
    Fintan - Lost City Posts: 1,245 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Yukkuri - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    However, the fact that it scales down on vertical resolutions makes it inexcusable to not do the same with wide resolutions.

    That's been exactly my complaint for years. My "fix" is to only buy 16:10 screens and not to check the "Wide" box... b:surrender

    But yeah, the Wide box seems pretty useless in and of itself, and one would hope they would eventually figure out how to scale their stuff in all directions. b:angry
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