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KirstenLee
Rising Novice
17 days ago

Sims 1 Legacy Collection Window Size Issue

Sims 1 Legacy Collection only launches at my base monitor resolution, and when put into windows mode with ALT+Enter, it makes the window a lot larger than my monitor, because of the title bar and frame, and it covers my task bar, which covers my other applications, which is why I prefer Windowed mode in the first place. 

I would prefer to select my resolution. Some people said a fix is to change resolutions and press ALT+ENTER to adjust it, then change back... but this messes up my desktop organization, and the sims gives me a warning that switching resolutions isn't supported and it closes, meaning i cant do nothing about it.

some people said ALT+ENTER would "cycle through options" but the only options I seem to have are "Max display resolution windowed" and "Max display resolution fullscreen" I have seen screenshots of people hitting it again and getting what looked like 1600x900, and that would be great if it worked. 

I would like to be able to have a smaller, floating window on my display that is not 100% as big as my display's maximum resolution.  Is there an Options.ini or some kind of steam launch instruction that would successfully make this happen?

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  • mrknowitall526's avatar
    mrknowitall526
    Rising Rookie
    17 days ago

    I have been changing my desktop to 1280x720 before I play.  Yes it moves the icons around but they go back where I had them when I revert to 1920x1080.  It's way too small otherwise!

  • KirstenLee's avatar
    KirstenLee
    Rising Novice
    16 days ago

    My display is not ultra wide, it's not even very large so the native resolution isn't super blurry or small for me. My issue has nothing to do with UI size either. But even if I did change my monitor settings to 1280x720, the window that results is ALSO 1280x720 on the interior... Plus the 32 pixel title bar, which can't leave the desktop space, plus the 10 pixels all around the entire window meaning that I am going to be missing a 42 pixel section of the game at the bottom of my window. 

    AND it still completely covers my task bar. If it didn't cover the task bar (which I want) I'd be missing an ADDITIONAL 48 pixels, for a grand total of 90 pixels. That's a LOT of lost screen space considering most of The Sims' UI hangs out in the bottom 100 pixels of the screen.

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