Startopia

[balloonhead]

The Game itself supports my needed Resolution of 1920x1080 resulting in a streched screen.

Haven't found out how to set a FOV for it. Anyone has a solution?

[Mesh]

I'll fetch the demo and see if I can pick out anything, wouldn't get my hopes up though.

[Khalan]

I realize this topic is 4 years old, but the game has just been re-released on www.gog.com (http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/startopia/) and I thought it was better than starting a new thread.

There seems to be mixed reports as to whether or not the picture is stretched in widescreen modes. It seems to support any resolution reported by the GPU which is great, but on my system it's stretched at 1080p. Anyone have any thoughts or solutions?

Windows 7 64-bit
GTX670 2GB
GOG version of Startopia

1920x1080 (16:9 ratio):


1440x1080 (4:3 ratio):

[Mansen]

You could try getting in contact with Tom who's done a bit of updating for the game since Muckyfoot went belly up. He might have some insights as to whether it stretches, when and possible ways to get around this.

http://home.comcast.net/~tom_forsyth/startopia/startopia.html

[GeneralAdmission]

That is clearly a case of Hor stretching, which usually means the game has limited aspect ratio support. *Sometimes* these are easy fixes. Does the game have any other display issues, or is it just the stretching?

I don't have the game, but if you want to PM me a download link to the gog executable (not the full game) I'll have a look to see if it can be patched. Can't make any guarantees.

[Khalan]

PM sent, thanks for taking a look.

Weirdly some people at GOG are reporting no stretching, others say it does.

See my thread here:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/startopia/nonstretched_widescreen

[Mansen]

I can second the stretching at 1920x1200 - It's never something I've noticed until now though.

The yellow crates are ~ 150px wide compared to a height of 110px in a test screenshot I took.

[Mansen]

Works like a charm - only a slight graphical glitch in the main menu as a side effect, which doesn't affect the buttons in the slightest as far as I can tell.

:party:

[Tanuki]

I read this as StarTropics lol.

[Khalan]

Awesome, thanks very much jackfuste.

[NoName]

Anyone else happens to have the problem that the game freezes, crashes or black screens if that fix is used while Surround is activated?

I bet it's yet another driver problem...

[Jeslijar]

Hey Jack - you still have that file around anywhere?

I've seen posts for this widescreen hack in multiple places but the links are all dead.