Screen size wrong

[unmerged(55246)]

I am using HOI2 version 1.3 b

I am running WinXP Home SP1 (5.1 Build 2600)

CPU Athlon 64 FX-55 2600 MHz with 1000 Mb RAM

99 Gb free on my HDD

Video: Nvidia 7800 GS AGP w/ driver v6.14.10.8198 and 256 Mb Video RAM – and a Sony LCD 19" monitor.

Sound: SB Audigy 2 ZS , driver 5.12.1.442

DirectX v9.0 c (4.09.0000.0904)

I also use a USB-connected Logitech Keyboard and Logitech Cordless Click plus mouse.
The screen resolution is 1280 x 1024

I think that’s everything you asked for in the sticky
==========================================================

I have a problem of the size of the game screen once the game is launched .
Yesterday everything was OK but today when I launched the game , the screen is distorted .
When the game is loading , the screen has been compressed vertically (the bottom third is black) and displaced left (the left side of the game screen is out of image) .
It looks like if the game screen has been compressed to about 1 third of its full screen size and displaced up and left .
Nothing else is showing any anomaly (desktop , other games etc) .

Tried to reboot or change desktop resolution , nothing helps .

Please advice .

 

[unmerged(55538)]

does your LCD have an auto adjustment function?

 

[Castellon]

Okay let's try some standard things.
1) Make sure you have the latest patch for the game.
2) Rename the AVI folder to AVI_back
3) Set the color depth to 16BIT
4) Turn off everything in the background like E-mail/ICQ/Messenger, Virus protection and everything in the system tray beside the clock.
5) Run a Virus check and a Adware/Spybot checker
6) Update your Windows, update your Video card drivers and audio card drivers. Then repeat steps 1-4.


Please run a DirectX Diagnostic:
Start menu –Run - then type Dxdiag, then select each tab across the top of the window, and run the tests on each tab. Then select “Save All Information” button in the lower right of the window. This will bring up a dialog box to allow you to select a name for the file where the information will be saved. You can save it right on the desktop as this will make it easy to find. Then copy the contents of that file from the start to the heading that says “DirectX components” then paste what you have copied into a post in this thread.

 

[unmerged(55246)]

1) I have 1.3b HoI2 . Is that the latest patch ?
5) Shows no problems
6) Windows and drivers are all up to date (gave the versions above) . What do you mean by "update" them ?

P.S
As I mentioned this happens only with HoI 2 . No other game or application exhibits a similare behaviour .

 

[Castellon]

Please complete all of the above and then run the Dxdiag as outlined above.

 

[unmerged(54011)]

i have a problem with the screen size of the doomsday senario editor how can i solve this ??

 

[Castellon]

Can you be more specific?