game is dimming monitor
Hi, i just brought the complete Edition and after some hours suddenly the game seem to dim my monitor for whatever reason. it only happens if i do not play in fullscreen mode but i play on my big ...
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I dont try to be difficult but... maybe its my english, i am not a native english speaker but i dont see how running the game in windowed mode will make the text bigger. or how it would be different from choosing the windowed mode vio game options. it will just change the window size. means the text will be too small in any resolution
in fullscreen using a smaller resolution than i have set in the OS it will stretch the 1440 window to a 1920 size and "stretch the pixiels" making the text bigger with it.
i made a driver update and started with the launch options. good news is that it doesnt get dimmed in windowed mode, bad news is, i actually cant read in the small window. and it gets dimmed as soon as i get back to fullscreen mode.
Your English is very good, I guess I am not explaining well. If you use these steps, you can make the resolution different in windowed mode.
1. In Origin, right-click the SimCity icon and choose "Game Properties" > click the "Advanced Launch Options" tab
2. type "-w -r:1024x768" (without the quotation marks) in the "Command Line Arguments" box. Save this command
The "-w" tells the game to start in windowed mode.
The numbers after the "-r" is the resolution you want the game to use in the window. Try different ones to see what works best for you. Some examples: -r:1600x900 -r:1024x768 -r:1920x1080
Very glad to hear the dimming problem is solved with the driver update. Now let's try to get the right resolution so you can read the text.
thanks but it seems i am not able to explain my problem properly.
the diver update did nothing. running the game in windowed mode makes it not dimming BUT whatever resolution i use in windowed mode only changes the size of the window. so there is no resolution in window mode in which i am able to read the text because the text size is always the same. changing resolution in windowed mode only changes the window not the content.
and there is no difference in behavior if i force the windowed mode via start parameter or through game options. so i wondered why you think it would do something.
so i resigned to changing the resolution of the operating system as long as i play. its very annoying because it throws my desktop in disarray, but if i change the OP resolution and set the resolution in game to it and play in borderless window it looks like fullscreen, is big enough and doesnt dimm. i just hoped i would find a solution that doesnt include so much "work" around it everytime i play. *sigh*
thanks for trying so hard.@VolpinaLadra I am sorry that this didn't work for you. It is very strange, I have never had the command line resolution work like that - changing the size of the window, not the resolution of the game.
Maybe it's something different with the tv instead of a monitor, or possibly a driver issue. It's just so strange. You could try just setting the game resolution setting, but don't force the windowed mode. Make sure you're using the hyphen in front of the switches, too.
-r:hhhhxwwww
Unfortunately I am out of town without access to computer, so won't have a chance to try anything else for a while. If I come up with any other ideas, I'll let you know.
