Get me my resolution!

February 12, 2008 1:28 PM

GameResolutionFilter: Age of Mythology used to play on my computer at my native 1920x1200 resolution (17" widescreen laptop). But now it won't. Why not?

My XPS Gen 2 played AOM gorgeously at 1920x1200 the last time I had windows installed. I reinstalled windows as part of the process of retiring the old girl, and decided to put AOM on it as well as on my new XPS M1730.

However, 1920x1200 no longer comes up as an option for a screen resolution on either my old laptop or even my new one. For my old one, every driver is exactly the same as it was before; I know because I used the same files that I had the last time I installed windows. New drivers won't work, either on it or on my new computer.

Why in the world won't the game even show me any options for selecting widescreen resolutions? Everything I've found online says that it supports them, and I know that I used to play it at that resolution. The maximum one available on either computer is 1600x1200, which doesn't look very pretty due to the stretching that's done to it.

This makes no sense to me, and I'm stuck. I've tried reinstalling the game without patches and it's still happening.

How can I get my resolution back?

posted by omnipotentq to computers & internet (1 comment total)

Ah crap. After I hit ALT+Enter to make change the windowed/fullscreen mode, it went to widescreen at my native resolution. Funny thing it, though, it still won't show that 1920x1200 resolution in the options menu.

Daggum it...now I gotta wait a week to ask about some monitor problems.
posted by omnipotentq at 1:44 PM on February 12, 2008