I'm trying to run disco at 1280x1024 native resolution on an alternate monitor. But if I start with -dx or -d1280x1024 the game insists on running at 1280x960. This is visible from the game objects and is also the resolution that is shown in the options screen.
Another player mentioned some problems he was having with 1280x1024 on an ATI card so now I'm wondering if it works for anybody.
If you (think you) run at that resolution, can you pop into the options screen and confirm that you actually are. If so, what is your graphics card. Thanks
I think the -dx and -d command are only for widescreen resolutions. Had the same problem when I wanted to use 1280x1024 back then. I used 1152 x864 instead.
Try using Discovery Launchpad. I know there is a way by using -dx or -d in the shortcut properties but I have long forgotten. Anyone I can confirm that you can get all sort of funky resolutions if you so wanted. 1280 x 1024 does work on it.
Edit: At the moment I'm using AMD (ATi) 7970's in crossfire and I'm not experiencing any issues. Unless they're really old cards or bad catalyst drivers I doubt the card would be the problem
I bet the problem is that Freelancer doesn't support 5:4 aspect ratio (1280x1024). Resolutions like 1024x768 or 1152x864 are 4:3 hence they work. For me, both 4:3 and 16:9 works, however I don't have a power plant PC (AMD HD4200 IGP).
Thinking about this some more ... The vanilla game does have support for 5x4 camera mode. It will work correctly if you hard-code the values into the perfoptions.ini file. There are some layout problems, but those can be fixed by tweaking the cameras.ini and probably with hudshift.
The discovery mod provides its own camera configs, which is what the -d argument is for. The discovery mod uses that to tell it to activate the appropriate camera mode and override the game's stock camer. However, using the -d option causes the game to revert to 1280x960 4x3 mode, and then it flips into 5x4 at different times. This causes the game screen to stretch and shrink at different times. I suspect that discovery camera doesn't really understand 5x4 resolutions so it is doing this other thing and getting it wrong.
I've pm'd Cannon asking him about this, but no response yet. I assume he gets a bunch of these kinds of requests.