Dom3 Community Screen Resolutions - Page 2

Ballbarian · #11 July 1st, 2009, 08:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lch

Strange to see 1280x768 as an option, but not 1280x1024.

Desktop: 1280x1024, but I almost never use it.
Notebook: 1024x768 (native resolution)

I think the resolution is not that much of an issue if you can teach your program to scale depending on window size, or have slider controls. Do you have a screenshot for it?

You caught me. 1280x768 is my resolution so the poll was slightly biased.

My biggest concern was the screen width and I am relieved to see no 800's listed. There is already some scaling to screen size, but some of the panels are hard pressed with a width of 1024. The UI is still changing and I hate to show it in it's current state. Most of the work so far has been in reading, error checking & writing of map files. I have a long weekend coming up and I will try to post a screenshot then.

A big thanks to everyone for their input!

Illuminated One · #12 July 1st, 2009, 09:47 AM

1280x1024

dlcooper · #13 July 1st, 2009, 02:18 PM

1440x900

Zeldor · #14 July 1st, 2009, 03:15 PM

1680, but I always play dominions windowed, it occupies 50-70% of the screen.

elmokki · #15 July 1st, 2009, 03:32 PM

Does anyone actually use smaller resolutions than 1280x800 on laptop, 1440x900 on desktop anymore? Apart from netbooks that is, they're generally 1024x600.

thejeff · #16 July 1st, 2009, 04:07 PM

Yes. Not everyone has bought a new computer in the last year or two.

One of the great things about Dominions is that it runs without the latest hardware.

Gregstrom · #17 July 1st, 2009, 04:18 PM

Given the number of votes for 1280x1024, the answer to your question depends on whether you think that's smaller than 1440x900.

It's worth remembering that Dom3 plays well on older machines, so it's not unreasonable to expect a proportion of players to be using monitors deting from times when 1280x1024 was high-end.

Edit: Ninja'd!

capnq · #18 July 2nd, 2009, 07:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elmokki

Does anyone actually use smaller resolutions than 1280x800 on laptop, 1440x900 on desktop anymore?

At my normal res (as mentioned above) of 1280x960 on my desktop, the default fonts for Windows are starting to get uncomfortably small for reading (Changing the font size that Windows uses breaks too many other apps to be worth the effort, IME.) I've got a couple games that run best at 1024x768.

I've been spending a lot of time lately playing browser based Flash games, and I occaisionally find one of those that's easier to play at 800x600, which is the lowest my video card will go.

AstralWanderer · #19 July 3rd, 2009, 03:59 AM

Flybook: 1024 x 600
Desktop: 2048 x 1536 (only because Dom3 won't offer 2560 x 1600 - bah).

Ballbarian · #20 July 3rd, 2009, 04:15 AM

Thanks everyone!
It looks like I'll be safe if I treat 1024x768 as a minimum.

Here are the screens that I promised:

Editing a province's commanders...

Editing a nation...

The program already reads in existing map files, parses the commands, does some error checking (found a lot of errors in semirand provinces!), and fills in some misc data extracted from Edi's database and can then save the updated map file. I am making good progress as long as I can keep motivated.