What's wrong with higher resolutions in this game?

[Unwelcome Guest]

I just built a new system, and my monitor is a 22 inch samsung with max at 1600x1050. Playing at that res doesn't really work. The actual quality of the picture doesn't increase, it literally just takes the same screen from 1024x768 and stretches it out to fit the higher resolution...

Even on my old 17 inch 1280x1024 looked kind of wonky.

Anyone else have this problem?

[RantingHeretic]

Are you playing on widescreen? I have the same size monitor, and when I play on widescreen it doesn't go into traditional widescreen, it just stretches everything out very bizzarely and looks quite bad, the unit proportions become very strange and everyone looks like really skinny skeleton men.
I have not expireneced higher resolution have any negative effects however. I usually play on a fairly low one just because I have almost always, up till now, had really bad computers, and have always had to play with settings way down on everything. I carry that habit with me, even though I can handle fights now of up to about 8,000 men with out a slowdown with the graphics way up.

[homefry]

I'm on my 22" (1680 x 1050) monitor and can play just fine.


Did you tick the widescreen checkbox?

[gewehr36]

I'm on my 22" (1680 x 1050) monitor and can play just fine.


Did you tick the widescreen checkbox?

I ticked mine but the menus, unit cards, and maps, etc. are all stretched out. Someone told me a while ago that CA just didn't create the game for 16:10 ratio (1680x1050, which is what I play in).

[eisenkopf]

i'm playing on (supposedly) 1400x900WXGA+ (whotf invents these acronyms?, and it should be 1440x900 anyway, what has lenovo done to my laptop?
or maybe their specs on their website are wrong - can't check on the machine itself right now )

anyway, it doesn't look like the screenshots most people post. i agree that the widescreen option is for 16:9 ratio, so that every resolution that differs from that looks ... well, different. i actually like my slightly stretched graphics better... all those pics on the forum look so skinny

[Unwelcome Guest]

The widescreen checkbox doesn't appear to make a difference. It stretches with or without it.

[Chlodwig I.]

lenonvo......
well never buy a crapy china made notebook

[homefry]

Can you post a link to some screenshots that show how the game should look?


I've only been playing on 1680 x 1050, so maybe I do have a stretched screen but don't notice it?