Posted By: MarkEAW
Scaling. Resolution and Aspect Ratio for EAW - 06/13/19 03:23 AM
I recently found out , or rediscovered. (I didn't have it documented before) how to maintain the Aspect Ratio of EAW on full screen with Win10 and Nvidia graphics card.
I had my poor old monitor doing all the scaling, which didn't cut it apparently for EAW.
Anyhow if your getting OVAL gunsights then your stretching the games display.
I have a desktop of 1680x1050. So EAW would fill the screen even though I had 1024x768 (square) So It was stretching it to fill the monitor, edge to edge.
So I had the oval gun sight. yuck, everything is wide and squashed too.
So I did these steps:
Scaling:
If your getting screen stretching (your gun sight is oval) when playing the game. Do the following to avoid it and the game will display correctly. I only have instructional steps for the NVIDIA Control Panel.
1) Open your Nvidia Control Panel,
2) Select under Display on the left; Adjust desktop size and position selection.
3) On the monitor you use to display EAW select the tab Scaling.
4) Set the Scaling Mode to Aspect ratio.
4) Next set Perform Scaling on: GPU. (This is important, as the Display option did not work on my system).
I played it with black bars on the left and right side. I also played it with black bars all the way around including top and bottom. But I prefer the mode with just bars on the left and right side.
Theres more info on this and other video related stuff for EAW on my VIDEO Help Document. (Where I'll revise the information the more I play with those settings.)
https://eaw.neocities.org/video.html
Hope it helps some of you running EAW natively in Win10 (D3D mode).
I had my poor old monitor doing all the scaling, which didn't cut it apparently for EAW.
Anyhow if your getting OVAL gunsights then your stretching the games display.
I have a desktop of 1680x1050. So EAW would fill the screen even though I had 1024x768 (square) So It was stretching it to fill the monitor, edge to edge.
So I had the oval gun sight. yuck, everything is wide and squashed too.
So I did these steps:
Scaling:
If your getting screen stretching (your gun sight is oval) when playing the game. Do the following to avoid it and the game will display correctly. I only have instructional steps for the NVIDIA Control Panel.
1) Open your Nvidia Control Panel,
2) Select under Display on the left; Adjust desktop size and position selection.
3) On the monitor you use to display EAW select the tab Scaling.
4) Set the Scaling Mode to Aspect ratio.
4) Next set Perform Scaling on: GPU. (This is important, as the Display option did not work on my system).
I played it with black bars on the left and right side. I also played it with black bars all the way around including top and bottom. But I prefer the mode with just bars on the left and right side.
Theres more info on this and other video related stuff for EAW on my VIDEO Help Document. (Where I'll revise the information the more I play with those settings.)
https:/
Hope it helps some of you running EAW natively in Win10 (D3D mode).