Resolution changing

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Baastuul

Resolution changing

Post by Baastuul »

I was fooling around with the resolutions in the Video Options menu (this was BEFORE I read th FAQ about it so stupid me;) and I changed it to 640x480. My monitor flickered and gave a big red message that said "OUT OF RANGE".

So, I ctrl+alt+del'd and came back in. On starting Exult up, it gave the same error message. Thinking I had screwed things up, I just figured I'd uninstall Exult, which I did. Same problem occurred. I tried it once more and it still wouldn't work. So then I figured it might be with the game itself so I uninstalled it and installed it again ('it' being Serpent Isle). I STILL got the same error message. I uninstalled Exult once more, installed it again, and it still popped up.

Anybody know what the problem is?

Thanks
Dominus
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Re: Resolution changing

Post by Dominus »

seems your monitor can't do 640x(whatever). By default Exult starts with 320x200 with scale factor 2 (which is 640x400) in fullscreen mode. Configure your exult.cfg with more sensible values then (or just disable fullscreen). Read the documentation on what to do.
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artaxerxes
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Re: Resolution changing

Post by artaxerxes »

It might be possible the exult.cfg is leftover even when you de-install Exult.

In this case, just remove it or edit it to sensible values, and reinstall Exult.

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