Resomalution Problem/Question

Raughn

Is there any way I can have my Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 output a bordered 4:3 resolution? I use a widescreen Acer LCD that does not have any 4:3 settings, so even if I go into Catalyst and change the video card resolution, the monitor stretches it. I bought KOTOR during a Steam sale and would like to play it without the characters being oddly chubby.

(I've also been tolerating SC1 in stretched widescreen for a while, but that doesn't bother me so much.)

Thanks in advance for any help.

AzadIsCool

I'm not sure about that, but there is a way to add custom resolutions to KoTOR. There are even downloadable HUDs that work with the custom resolutions.

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Unfortunately I never was able to check if it works, because my new computer doesn't have a single core CPU, which screws up KoTOR.

Fats

There should be some scaling options in the catalyst control center, you might have to dig around to find them though.

amnesiasoft

I'm not particularly familiar with CCC, but there should be an option somewhere labeled "Maintain Aspect Ratio," that's what you want. Though if it's anything like Nvidia's version of it, you will have to be attached to your monitor using DVI.

Quantux

Looks like there is an option in CCC. You can set it to either let the card or the monitor dictate aspect ratio. Now even if you set that, your monitor may still stretch it. Make sure to mess with the monitor settings. I've had this one for over a year and just recently found the setting to maintain aspect ratio.

ArcticMonkey

AzadIsCool wrote: »

I'm not sure about that, but there is a way to add custom resolutions to KoTOR. There are even downloadable HUDs that work with the custom resolutions.

link

Unfortunately I never was able to check if it works, because my new computer doesn't have a single core CPU, which screws up KoTOR.

If you go into task manager after you start KoTOR, find Kotor.exe (or similar) and click set affinity you can assign only one CPU to the game.

Or if the game crashes before you can go there, you can use this guide to start it with only one cpu assigned.

AzadIsCool

ArcticMonkey wrote: »

AzadIsCool wrote: »

I'm not sure about that, but there is a way to add custom resolutions to KoTOR. There are even downloadable HUDs that work with the custom resolutions.

link

Unfortunately I never was able to check if it works, because my new computer doesn't have a single core CPU, which screws up KoTOR.

If you go into task manager after you start KoTOR, find Kotor.exe (or similar) and click set affinity you can assign only one CPU to the game.

Or if the game crashes before you can go there, you can use this guide to start it with only one cpu assigned.

Oh wow, thanks.

To play, I had to disable three of my cores and 5 gb of RAM, then restart, and play the game. Then when I was done I had to enable them again. This seems a lot easier.

GrimReaper

ArcticMonkey wrote: »

AzadIsCool wrote: »

I'm not sure about that, but there is a way to add custom resolutions to KoTOR. There are even downloadable HUDs that work with the custom resolutions.

link

Unfortunately I never was able to check if it works, because my new computer doesn't have a single core CPU, which screws up KoTOR.

If you go into task manager after you start KoTOR, find Kotor.exe (or similar) and click set affinity you can assign only one CPU to the game.

Or if the game crashes before you can go there, you can use this guide to start it with only one cpu assigned.

AMD has a fix for this on their site somewhere, it's a cpu clock thing. I'll see if I can dig out the link, but if I remember correctly you don't need to use the affinity trick after you've installed the amd update. (i'm assuming this is on an AMD cpu)

EDIT: I think this is it.

AzadIsCool

It is AMD, but that looks like it's only for dual core CPUs. I'll look around for a Quad core version.

Raughn

Thanks for all the help, folks. I found the "maintain aspect ratio" setting in Catalyst, and you tought me about a KOTOR/multi-core problem that I didn't know existed, and how to fix it.