RE: [GD-General] More screen res love (tile graphics)

[<phi...@pl...>]

> >"Do you want the image stretched (which might be blurrier) or
> >centered (which might be smaller)?"

Given that you're not actually going to be able to 'solve' this issue
technically, giving the user the choice is the right thing to do.

You should allow them to pick from a range of suitable zoom ratio's, 1x,
2x, as well as fit to screen, or in a window with a fixed ratio, or manual
resizing.

As for multiple monitors, I know MacOS allows you to enumerate physical
devices, and I'm pretty sure DirectX does too. Either only display on the
primary monitor (where your menu bar is on the Mac, dunno about Windows),
or again, offer the user the choice, and remember it.

Getting little things like this right, are a key element in not pissing off
the player (which is pretty important in working that "word of mouth"
thing).

Cheers,
Phil

PS Mac games used to have this problem, as the only way you could change
screen resolution, was by plugging in a different monitor, plus they had
multiple monitors way back in the early 90s. This was due to Mac's having a
fixed dpi, which in turne was not for any strong technical reason, but for
some strange reason that I'm sure was not unrelated to Steve Job's reality
distortion field. I believe this changed around System 8, but since the
last one I worked on was System 7.5, I can't be sure.