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[Mnemonic]

I believe then that you should offer two check boxes instead of one: The first would be "Maintain original resolution" that would use the original game resolution surrounded by black bars on all sides, while the second would be "Maintain aspect ratio" that would use the nearest higher resolution with the game's aspect ratio.

Wouldn't it be equal to "use native resolution" as suggested by DocBass above?

[Mnemonic]

Anyone else is getting crashes in SceneEdit? I can't seem to be able to reproduce it.

[Daniel]

Wouldn't it be equal to "use native resolution" as suggested by DocBass above?

Yes, I meant the same thing. I just wanted to point out that this suggested option is slightly different than the one we are testing at the moment. One is "Maintain original/native resolution" while the other is "Maintain aspect ratio".

SceneEdit seems stable on my machine, btw.

[Mnemonic]

"Original resolution" in reference to what, though? The resolution of the actual game viewport is always the same. What changes is the resolution of the visible area, i.e. the amount of blank (black) pixels around the game viewport, so to say.

[Stucki]

i dont have any option to choose between my two monitors.
if i start the game it gives me the option for the aspect ratio and then it starts on the wrong monitor. my secondary !

and i did mean the mouse is geting  behind the top and bottom bar that is created to keep the aspect ratio.
Keeping the mouse on one monitor is a good thing, i didnt mean that ...

[Mnemonic]

In the combo-box with video card selection, there's only one item? What about in the previous WME version?

Anyone else with multi-monitor configuration can confirm this, please?

[Stucki]

no i have the usual items:

display device
colors
antialiasing / use hardware t&l

plus Maintain aspect ratio ( this is new to me )

but there is no icon where i can choose between my monitors. should there ?

[Mnemonic]

"Display device" should contain two items, one for each monitor.

[warmblood]

I've been testing various games (800x600 and 1024x768) at various monitor resolutions up to 1680x1050 with maintain aspect ratio checked and unchecked.  Everything worked as expected. That's the good news.

The bad news is that I ran into some other problems when I kept the test version of WME installed and started working on copies of my projects. Over time going in and out of the game in Debug mode, I ran into several problems. I'll report them, but don't know how helpful it will be since trying to reproduce these is going to be tough.

1) After pressing Esc to display menu, lost mouse pointer and had to end game in task manager. (This happened twice, and had never happened to me before with WME.)
2) Several times game froze and had to end using task manager.  Rebooted, restarted project manager and was able to run same game fine without changes, so it seems to be some kind of memory leak? (This happened 3-4 times, and had never happened to me before with WME.)
3) Huge slow down. It got so that it took four or five minutes to start a small game.  (I've had some problems with this before, but never to this extent.  In the past I always thought it was DirectX related since this computer - a Dell E1505 Dual Core with ATI Mobility Radeon X1400-- has problems I attribute to Dell's non-existant graphic card driver updates.)

I hope this is the kind of feedback you wanted. If I can nail things down any better, I'll let you know.

[Mnemonic]

I hope this is the kind of feedback you wanted. If I can nail things down any better, I'll let you know.

Well... not exactly This is not the kind of regression I'd expect from this update. The changes happened in renderer only. Are we talking about 2D or 2.5D game?

[DocBass]

I hope this is the kind of feedback you wanted. If I can nail things down any better, I'll let you know.

Well... not exactly This is not the kind of regression I'd expect from this update. The changes happened in renderer only. Are we talking about 2D or 2.5D game?

Oh yeah if it helps at all our game is 2D only. If you want I could give you all the crash info next time it happens. I hope you keep this feature, we have decided to go widescreen native as a result. It was our original desire to do so but didn't because relatively few people have widescreen LCD's but now this works out great .

[Stucki]

my display device offers me only one solution my Nvidia Geforce 8800. when i remember correctly the previous version gave me two opions ..

[DocBass]

Also it would be nice if we could force to maintain the aspect ratio and not give the user the choice to distort the image. I can't imagine when that would be desirable really...

[odnorf]

Also it would be nice if we could force to maintain the aspect ratio and not give the user the choice to distort the image. I can't imagine when that would be desirable really...

ATI drivers for HD series (2xxx, 3xxx, 4xxx) has new (a few months old) similar feature that works better in some cases (maintain aspect ratio, hardware accelerated scaling & full scale with borders only at one side). Those users (like me) will probably prefer to disable the wme option.

[Stucki]

while testing a scene i found that if i run my game in windowed mode i can choose between two grafikcards (monitors)
if i run in non windowmode i only have one grafikcard (monitor). So i cant choose. And this is my secondary monitor ...

hope this helps

greets
stucki