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Sierin Tohru
Ruthless Regiment
SL0W CHILDREN AT PLAY
#1 - 2014-07-20 00:15:44 UTC
I want to play with two clients side by side at a custom resolution. In order to fit my monitor properly, I need to have that resolution at 1296x1030.

Is there a way to have the client automatically launch at that resolution instead of the 1024x768 that it keeps defaulting to? It's actually very irritating to have to keep resizing the window and moving my in-game windows around.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#2 - 2014-07-20 02:18:30 UTC
Erm... mine always starts at the same resolution: max resolution if full-screen, whatever you last used if window-mode.
DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#3 - 2014-07-20 02:20:11 UTC
play in windowed mode and you have various options, the client will only keep the last closed setting however

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Liafcipe9000
Critically Preposterous
#4 - 2014-07-20 10:07:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Liafcipe9000
windowed mode > resize manually.

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Sierin Tohru
Ruthless Regiment
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#5 - 2014-07-20 16:00:57 UTC
Windowed mode does indeed have various options, but it doesn't keep settings. It defaults to the closest built-in option to the custom settings I have it set to. I want it to open at MY size every time.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#6 - 2014-07-20 16:10:47 UTC
DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#7 - 2014-07-20 16:13:00 UTC
Sierin Tohru wrote:
Windowed mode does indeed have various options, but it doesn't keep settings. It defaults to the closest built-in option to the custom settings I have it set to. I want it to open at MY size every time.


not on my screen, i set my option and it ha snot had to change it. though i used the drop down settings and not really a custom one

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Mackenzie Nolen
Doomheim
#8 - 2014-07-20 16:13:29 UTC
I use fixed window mode so there are no borders and then set the resolution manually in the INI file to what I want. Never had it forget/reset this. Unfortunately fixed window mode has the upper-left window corner pinned to the upper-left screen corner and this origin cannot be moved.
Lothras Andastar
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2014-07-20 21:08:40 UTC
Sierin Tohru wrote:
Windowed mode does indeed have various options, but it doesn't keep settings. It defaults to the closest built-in option to the custom settings I have it set to. I want it to open at MY size every time.

Your best bet is to look into a AutoHotKey script that can do what you want.

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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#10 - 2014-07-21 05:08:04 UTC
It's possible.

Although it should save that on auto, at least it does that for me when I run windowed.

The settings are in the following file;

c:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE\path_to_your_eve_client\settings\core_public__.yaml

Under "device" and "DeviceSettings" you will find "BackBufferHeight: 800, BackBufferWidth: 1280"

Which is the resolution it will start in. But very strange if it doesn't save your window size when you exit the client because it does for me.

/c

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Belt Scout
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#11 - 2014-07-21 05:13:04 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
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lol

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Sierin Tohru
Ruthless Regiment
SL0W CHILDREN AT PLAY
#12 - 2014-07-21 18:56:34 UTC
Chribba wrote:
It's possible.

Although it should save that on auto, at least it does that for me when I run windowed.

The settings are in the following file;

c:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE\path_to_your_eve_client\settings\core_public__.yaml

Under "device" and "DeviceSettings" you will find "BackBufferHeight: 800, BackBufferWidth: 1280"

Which is the resolution it will start in. But very strange if it doesn't save your window size when you exit the client because it does for me.

/c


+1 for proposing a real solution. This does not, however, resolve the issue. As soon as I run the client again, it reverts the file back to the 1286x1057 settings. It reverts before the client is loaded, in fact, while the launcher is starting up (ran a daemon to make sure of the instruction time).
DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#13 - 2014-07-21 19:20:21 UTC
Sierin Tohru wrote:
Chribba wrote:
It's possible.

Although it should save that on auto, at least it does that for me when I run windowed.

The settings are in the following file;

c:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE\path_to_your_eve_client\settings\core_public__.yaml

Under "device" and "DeviceSettings" you will find "BackBufferHeight: 800, BackBufferWidth: 1280"

Which is the resolution it will start in. But very strange if it doesn't save your window size when you exit the client because it does for me.

/c


+1 for proposing a real solution. This does not, however, resolve the issue. As soon as I run the client again, it reverts the file back to the 1286x1057 settings. It reverts before the client is loaded, in fact, while the launcher is starting up (ran a daemon to make sure of the instruction time).




that might be a corrupt install of the client maybe? As I said I have never had that issue, once I set the stupid thing it never changes.

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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#14 - 2014-07-22 06:11:58 UTC
DaReaper wrote:
Sierin Tohru wrote:
Chribba wrote:
It's possible.

Although it should save that on auto, at least it does that for me when I run windowed.

The settings are in the following file;

c:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE\path_to_your_eve_client\settings\core_public__.yaml

Under "device" and "DeviceSettings" you will find "BackBufferHeight: 800, BackBufferWidth: 1280"

Which is the resolution it will start in. But very strange if it doesn't save your window size when you exit the client because it does for me.

/c


+1 for proposing a real solution. This does not, however, resolve the issue. As soon as I run the client again, it reverts the file back to the 1286x1057 settings. It reverts before the client is loaded, in fact, while the launcher is starting up (ran a daemon to make sure of the instruction time).




that might be a corrupt install of the client maybe? As I said I have never had that issue, once I set the stupid thing it never changes.

That sounds like that could be a reason yeah. I did tests with mine, running both via launcher and via bin\exefile.exe directly, both of them launched in whatever weird values I put in - EXCEPT - if I made it smaller than the lower (I guess) limits.

Eg making the height less than 768 would revert it back to 1024x768.

Can you try modifying to run in like 1600x1400 and see if it launches with those values? Then do the same but like 1000x1400

I had no problem launching with your values so might be something corrupt as DaReaper suggested

/c

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KIller Wabbit
MEME Thoughts
#15 - 2014-07-22 10:55:30 UTC
I'll have to check my settings when they get through patching, but I've noticed vertical "shrink" - a few pixels get shaved off the bottom every time I launch. Every few days I have to stretch it back out. Width doesn't change.