Upon startup, menu screen is correct height, but too wide

[monstermattxl]

Upon starting up BtS, which I just got and installed, it seems to load correctly, but the screen is the wrong shape. It is the correct height for my 19" widescreen monitor, but it is too wide, and thus only shows the left-half of the screen. This means that I cannot even start a custom game, because the custom game start button is in the bottom right part of the screen, which I cannot see. I attempted to correct the graphics settings to fit my wide screen monitor, but that didn't correct the problem. I didn't have this problem with Civ IV alone, nore with Warlords.

Additionaly, the cursor seems to see the screen the correct way. For example, to click on anything, I must be to the left of it (not over top of it like normal), and the further I go to the right on the screen, the further to the left of whatever I am trying to click on I must be.

Please help, because I love Civ, and I don't want this to become a bad experience for me.

Oh, also, where can I find a patch for Civ: BtS? Perhaps that can fix the problem, but I don't know where to find it, and I have checked the official site twice now.

Please bear with me. I sell computers for a living, but I am a Hardware guy, not a Software guy, so I don't know how to modify files.

Thanks to anyone who helps!

Monstermattxl

 

[ori]

You can find the most recent patch here - and you can force the correct resolution in
my games\beyond the sword\civilizationiv.ini
just set the two lines that say:

; Custom Screen Height, minimum: 768 - Normal resolutions can be set in-game and will be used when set to 0
ScreenHeight = 0

; Custom Screen Width, minimum: 1024 - Normal resolutions can be set in-game and will be used when set to 0
ScreenWidth = 0

to whatever your resolution needs to be - and all will be good.

Also since no one did that 2 years ago:

Welcome to Civfanatics

 

[monstermattxl]

Thank you for the welcome, and for the advice. However, my problem remains. The menu screen is exactily double normal width, even after setting the code in the beyondthesword/civilizationiv.ini file to 1440 x 900. It had absolutely no effect at all.

What now? I installed the patch, and that didn't help either.





Monstermattxl

 

[ori]

just to make sure: you *did* start the game after setting those changes?
also could you check whether those changes are still in the .ini file - there have been reports of the game reverting this file to standard settings on some machines, if so you would need to make these changes and then set the file to write protected.
also: just to check if you did the right thing: could you just copy the two lines from your file and post it here?

 

[monstermattxl]

Here are the lines that I took directily out of the .ini file...

; Custom Screen Height, minimum: 900 - Normal resolutions can be set in-game and will be used when set to 0
ScreenHeight = 0

; Custom Screen Width, minimum: 1440 - Normal resolutions can be set in-game and will be used when set to 0
ScreenWidth = 0

Also, I took screen shots to show you what was happening, but the screen shots came out alright. They are normal sized and centered.

I attempted to adjust my monitor settings directly, hoping I could manually center it. However, there is no right-hand side to the screen at all. When I adjusted the horizontal to the left (in theory to show the right-hand side), there was only blackness. I literally have only 1/2 a screen showing, but when I took a screen shot, it was a full picture and centered. I am going to try to manually adjust the resolution down to the minimum, but do you have any other suggestions?

AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

 

[monstermattxl]

I just changed the resolution in the .ini file to the following...

; Custom Screen Height, minimum: 480 - Normal resolutions can be set in-game and will be used when set to 0
ScreenHeight = 0

; Custom Screen Width, minimum: 800 - Normal resolutions can be set in-game and will be used when set to 0
ScreenWidth = 0

Even with this drastic change, there was no effect on the game.

Is it my monitor?



monstermattxl

 

[ori]

I just changed the resolution in the .ini file to the following...

; Custom Screen Height, minimum: 480 - Normal resolutions can be set in-game and will be used when set to 0
ScreenHeight = 0

; Custom Screen Width, minimum: 800 - Normal resolutions can be set in-game and will be used when set to 0
ScreenWidth = 0

Even with this drastic change, there was no effect on the game.

Is it my monitor?



monstermattxl

so you set it to 0? that just means it uses whatever it thinks is right - you did try the custom resolution before, right? what was the height, what was the width you put in? I doubt its your monitor - more likely the game and your graphics card don't interact correctly, this could be a driver problem - so you might want to look for an updated driver version.

 

[sagji]

I just changed the resolution in the .ini file to the following...

; Custom Screen Height, minimum: 480 - Normal resolutions can be set in-game and will be used when set to 0
ScreenHeight = 0

; Custom Screen Width, minimum: 800 - Normal resolutions can be set in-game and will be used when set to 0
ScreenWidth = 0

Even with this drastic change, there was no effect on the game.

Is it my monitor?



monstermattxl

The lines starting with ; are just comments for the reader. The two lines you need to change are
ScreenHeight = 0
ScreenWidth = 0
You need to change the 0 to the value for your system - probably
ScreenHeight = 900
ScreenWidth = 1440

 

[monstermattxl]

Thank you very much for your help. It turns out it was my graphics card, and once I updated the drivers, all was well!

I am embarassed that I didn't think of updating the drivers myself.

Again, thanks! The game, of course, rocks!

Monstermattxl