Wow this is gay...

[xcellerate]

So i just started homeworld 2, and cranked the settings to 1600x1200 and started to play. But the entire game was offset, i could only see the top left of what was being displayed, so i went back to options to change it lower, and guess what? The APPLY button is like half an inch off my screen. So i can't lower my resolution, is there another way i can do this?? Is there a config folder or something i can change so i don't have to reinstall everything?

 

[Qonfused]

Most games have some sort of config file that has all of your chosen graphical settings that you can alter. Depending on what game, it'll be in different places.

 

[EEngi]

haha, i just installed homeworld 2 today too... except for some reason, the game sorta kinda lags with shadows enabled AND i go near the mother ship or any other big ship. weird... the shadows are kinda screwed up too. I'm wondering why it's lagging with a power system as mine. Also, it tried to install directx 9.0b when i have a higher version saying that my dx version is not the right one. kinda screwd up installation

 

[giant384]

yea some games just dont like widescreen resolutions so they zoom instead.

 

[xcellerate]

Well, i tried to get as much help as i could, but nobody had an answer. The best solution seemed to be putting /800 in the target line of the icon which SUPPOSEDLY forces the game to run 800x600..which turned out to be a lie. I just bit the bullet and reinstalled it.

That's so silly.

 

[Seagull]

might've been -height 800 -width 600 or something in the command line

 

[giant384]

could have tried this +widescreen +szx 1600 +szy 1200

 

[Stigmata]

The lag problems might be caused by the presence of a dual-core CPU. I know a lot of old games can't properly handle having their processes sent through two different cores. It happens all the time to me in SimCity 4 and Max Payne 2. If you're running dualcore, once you open the game, hit Ctrl-Alt-Del, find the game's process, right-click it, click Set Affinity, and then leave only one "core" checked off. It should run more smoothly afterwards.

 

[EEngi]

i have a single core....