Window size issue Second person

[boomboomf22]

So unfortunately I am having the same (or a similar) issue to the OP. However turning text and scaling down to 100% or up to 150% does not solve the issue. This is especially unfortunate because it cuts off the extra tabs in the design screen which is kinda important. Had a similar issue in RTW1 where it cut off the very bottom couple mm of the design screen and also cut off a inch(ish) of the ship info panel in battles.



I really want to buy this game, but if it is unplayable with the demo then I probably won't risk it.



I am running at 1920 by 1080 (recommended) on a Windows 7 system on a 15.5 inch laptop screen.

I did post this in the other thread, but I think most people assume it was a response, not someone having a variance of the same issue.

[yemo]

The attached screenshot has a size of 1044x919.

This does not correspond to what you should get with 1920x1080 resolution at 100% scaling.

I recommend testing by setting the resolution to 1600x900, the scaling to 100% and only after doing so starting the game and report back.

[williammiller]

Did you try this possible fix recommended by another poster:

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"open the file 'preferences' in your RTW2 DEMO folder with Notepad (or equivalent) and search for the line:

'WideDesignScreen=0'

change the 0 to 1 and that should solve the issue."
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Now, I don't know if that will fix your particular issue, but I would try it anyway...

[yemo]

boomboomf22 , williammiller

I m pretty sure it has something to do with windows 7 wonky scaling. Especially when the application is already running while changing scales.
The 919 screenshot height is about what I would expect for 1920x1080 resolution with 125% scaling.

Using 1600x900 with 100% should scale up a little less (factor 1.2 compared to 1.25), but does so more natively, without going through the win7 scaling mechanics.

edit: Of course it is not clean either, but we can narrow down the issue.

[boomboomf22]

Sadly, all turning my resolution down to 1600 by 900 and 100% size achieves is to make my computers resolution look like utter ass.  real unfortunate cause I was stoked for this game.  And the other suggestion:

"open the file 'preferences' in your RTW2 DEMO folder with Notepad (or equivalent) and search for the line:



'WideDesignScreen=0'



change the 0 to 1 and that should solve the issue."

Well I tried it (before making the other suggested changes)  and as far as I can tell it did nada.  (I did turn the setting back before trying the other suggestion)

edit: Just tried 1920 by 1080 with 100% and changing WideDesignScreen to 1 and that doesn't work either

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[williammiller]

I'm thinking that perhaps a 'tabbed' option for several panels of this screen might be a good 'fall-back' in case of issues like this - when Fredrik is back I will see what he thinks.

[yemo]

boomboomf22

That first screenshot says 1600x900 but it shows very little in total, more like what 1280x720 would look like (but not quite).
Something is still magnifying your text/windows. I m not familiar with win7 anymore. Maybe something like microsoft accessibility tools?

Same with your second screenshot. Your text and even your taskbar icons are still enlarged compared to what 1920x1080 @ 100% should look like.

The interesting part is, that the first screenshot shows a much wider design window compared to your second screenshot.

[yemo]

boomboomf22

You could try a "windows resize enable" tool as a stop gap workaround.

I have not used one recently, but that should allow you to manually increase the size of a window (eg the ship design window) even though that is disabled by default.
There were even some tools that allowed to you auto resize every time you open that window.
But it has been a long time and I m not sure how it works with rtw and which programs are recommendable.

Another possibility could be that some laptop software/bloatware is responsible for the scaling beyond the windows 7 settings.

[williammiller]

May 17, 2019 18:06:21 GMT -6 yemo said:

boomboomf22

That first screenshot says 1600x900 but it shows very little in total, more like what 1280x720 would look like (but not quite).
Something is still magnifying your text/windows. I m not familiar with win7 anymore. Maybe something like microsoft accessibility tools?

Same with your second screenshot. Your text and even your taskbar icons are still enlarged compared to what 1920x1080 @ 100% should look like.

The interesting part is, that the first screenshot shows a much wider design window compared to your second screenshot.

I believe that one has the "Extra Wide" (the red double arrows) button clicked which expands the panels.

[yemo]

May 17, 2019 19:23:48 GMT -6 williammiller said:

May 17, 2019 18:06:21 GMT -6 yemo said:

boomboomf22

That first screenshot says 1600x900 but it shows very little in total, more like what 1280x720 would look like (but not quite).
Something is still magnifying your text/windows. I m not familiar with win7 anymore. Maybe something like microsoft accessibility tools?

Same with your second screenshot. Your text and even your taskbar icons are still enlarged compared to what 1920x1080 @ 100% should look like.

The interesting part is, that the first screenshot shows a much wider design window compared to your second screenshot.

I believe that one has the "Extra Wide" (the red double arrows) button clicked which expands the panels.

Ah, yeah, missed that somehow despite being stated, I should go to bed .

Good luck with the launch.

[williammiller]

May 17, 2019 19:43:22 GMT -6 yemo said:

May 17, 2019 19:23:48 GMT -6 williammiller said:

I believe that one has the "Extra Wide" (the red double arrows) button clicked which expands the panels.

Ah, yeah, missed that somehow despite being stated, I should go to bed .

Good luck with the launch.

Thanks!

[boomboomf22]

May 17, 2019 18:24:50 GMT -6 yemo said:

boomboomf22

You could try a "windows resize enable" tool as a stop gap workaround.

I have not used one recently, but that should allow you to manually increase the size of a window (eg the ship design window) even though that is disabled by default.
There were even some tools that allowed to you auto resize every time you open that window.
But it has been a long time and I m not sure how it works with rtw and which programs are recommendable.

Another possibility could be that some laptop software/bloatware is responsible for the scaling beyond the windows 7 settings.

Sadly I downloaded a windows resize tool and all it does is bugger up the button positions even worse and stretch the windows out when I try to resize.

[yemo]

May 20, 2019 11:00:42 GMT -6 boomboomf22 said:

May 17, 2019 18:24:50 GMT -6 yemo said:

boomboomf22

You could try a "windows resize enable" tool as a stop gap workaround.

I have not used one recently, but that should allow you to manually increase the size of a window (eg the ship design window) even though that is disabled by default.
There were even some tools that allowed to you auto resize every time you open that window.
But it has been a long time and I m not sure how it works with rtw and which programs are recommendable.

Another possibility could be that some laptop software/bloatware is responsible for the scaling beyond the windows 7 settings.

Sadly I downloaded a windows resize tool and all it does is bugger up the button positions even worse and stretch the windows out when I try to resize.

Hm, strange.

All I can say is, that something magnifies your windows and texts to about 125% on the screenshots you provided.

DPI scaling, windows text scaling, another software, but certainly something.

Hope you find the issue

[boomboomf22]

May 20, 2019 16:16:46 GMT -6 yemo said:

May 20, 2019 11:00:42 GMT -6 boomboomf22 said:

Sadly I downloaded a windows resize tool and all it does is bugger up the button positions even worse and stretch the windows out when I try to resize.

Hm, strange.

All I can say is, that something magnifies your windows and texts to about 125% on the screenshots you provided.

DPI scaling, windows text scaling, another software, but certainly something.

Hope you find the issue

I will keep trying, but I basically don't have clue 1 about these things. I'm not really great with computers.

[yemo]

May 20, 2019 16:28:00 GMT -6 boomboomf22 said:

May 20, 2019 16:16:46 GMT -6 yemo said:

Hm, strange.

All I can say is, that something magnifies your windows and texts to about 125% on the screenshots you provided.

DPI scaling, windows text scaling, another software, but certainly something.

Hope you find the issue

I will keep trying, but I basically don't have clue 1 about these things. I'm not really great with computers.

I found the possible bug in windows 7, seems it is a windows installation issue.

Basically what you select as 100% text size is actually 125% text size due to a windows 7 install bug.

So what you see as 125% text size is probably about 156% text size?

However there are two issues:

1. The solution requires you to edit the registry, which is not beginner friendly and can seriously mess stuff up (it is perfectly safe as long as you do not stray from the path laid out in the solution).

2. You learned to live with that bug, and fixing stuff will of course change stuff.

At your own risk:

www.rlvision.com/misc/windows_7_font_bug.php

superuser.com/questions/162692/windows-7-incorrect-scaling

There is still the possibility to upgrade to windows 10, which has much fewer issues in general.

But that requires some tricks now, if you do not want to pay for the upgrade (completely legal and provided by microsoft itself, just not advertised and actively supported anymore).

And since you are not very well versed in the field, perhaps someone with more knowledge in that area can do it for you?

Good luck