The game is a budget, download and retail, Xbox 360 and PC Action game. It has a single player 10 mission campaign, multiplayer combat in 3 modes and Instant Action which is a offline bot match.
Due to the lack of native 1280x768, it may just miss Certification. Is 1280x768 an available option in your Windows display properties? If not, the game may only be looking for available Windows resolutions, and there is no penalty there.
Great DR, especially for a first one. Thanks for taking the time to do it.
... Is 1280x768 an available option in your Windows display properties?...
Yes, the monitor I'm testing on has that resolution available in Display Properties. The game just has a selection of common or popular modes listed from within, the rest by config editing.
The ReadMe for the rating calculator was not clear whether a 'working' mode was an officially supported mode selectable from within the game, or simply worked when that mode was accessed by any means available.
For the grade, the game must be an officially supported from the game.
Heredid you post a list of supported resolutions, is this what you can select in game without any changes in the ini?
If it doesn't than it was a B+? Dunno that for sure.
Right. Must admit I'd never heard of '15:9 - 1280x768' as a common mode and aspect ratio before.
I've updated the original post with new score and values. The score is C+ if I fill it in as with new knowledge, but if I say it has 'full' support but configured by .ini file then it gets B+, go figure.
Then .ini should be our "official" solution, and 1280x768 should be considered to be supported in this manner.
One last question - you said that using something under 1024x768 causes problems with the HUD. Does this apply to 1280x720? And if so, can you provide screenshots?
The game will either get a B or a B+ depending on your answer.
One last question - you said that using something under 1024x768 causes problems with the HUD. Does this apply to 1280x720? And if so, can you provide screenshots?
All those resolutions are fine, in fact those ones are officially supported. When you force down to 800x600 or lower, a couple of menus get a bit tight on screen and the bottom of the HUD overlaps a little. Here's a screen shot, but it is not in the supported range nor a wide screen resolution.
GregDuge, again thanks for the great DR. Is the game any fun?
You're welcome. The game is not bad. It only cost about $10 so I wasn't expecting too much. The single player campaign is a couple hours of fun, much better when I played again on Hard. The multiplayer is really quite good, when you can find anyone online to play with. Bot matches are therapeutic. The best control is with a gamepad, second best keyboard. I have a joystick but haven't tried it with that. The game runs smooth even at high res but I have a pretty good graphics card so I expect that. Graphics are pretty simple but it does show bump mapping and some post processing effects. Sound is quite terrible. Overall, small, fun game, you get what you pay for, but it's not the Tie Fighter or Knights of the old Republic you'd dream about.
I got the demo - I found that you should actually leave the "screen ratio" variable alone - if you are using a widescreen resolution, the effective AR will be kicked up automatically. Increasing the base ratio too will cause the effective AR to be too high.
