Can't get screen res back

[hena330]

Hi,

I was toying around with the sim earlier on adjusting resolutions, and I made the change from my monitor settings which are 1600x900 and changed it to a much larger size. As a result, dcs has become a lot larger than my monitor can see, and I can only view the top left of the screen, therefore cannot access settings to reverse the changes :doh: . I'm in a bit of a pickle and can't for the life of me get it back. Is there any Lua or Cfg I can manually edit to change the resolution? Any help would be greatly appreciated, I don't really fancy doing a complete re-install! Thanks

 

Henri

[TwilightZone]

first make sure if you used DSR turn it off, then right click on your monitor screen and go to display settings, then click on advanced display settings and change your monitor resolution to 1600x 900 and click apply, after that go resolution settings in DCS game and change resolution too if needed.....hope this helps.........;-)

Edited October 12, 2015 by TwilightZone

[HeadHunter52]

Yup, what T-Zone said. That's what I had to do.

 

The other route, if you aren't using DSR, is to set your monitor to a high resolution, open DCS and switch it to a LOW resolution, then go back to the desktop and return it to normal. You should then be able to go into DCS and match it.

[hena330]

Hello gents,

Thanks for your input although I set DCS resolution as over the 3k something like 3000x2000, and my monitor only goes up to 1600x900, and even when attempting to change the resolution it won't go any higher! There must be a line in a file somewhere for the screen resolution? I'm not quite sure what DSR is, so I don't think I'm using that. Oh well, not really sure what to do. Thanks again for your input, any other ideas? It's quite a head scratch-er, oh dear.:(

 

Henri

[MariuszDW]

C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Config\Options.lua

 

Find "width" and "height" in ["graphics"] and type your native numbers.

You may want to make a copy of the file, before editing.

[hena330]

That did the trick! your a life saver! :) Many thanks, you saved me a lot of trouble!

 

Henri

[kam]

C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Config\Options.lua

 

Find "width" and "height" in ["graphics"] and type your native numbers.

You may want to make a copy of the file, before editing.

 

You can also delete this file and the sim will recreate it with default settings.

[Knubinator]

C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Config\Options.lua

 

Find "width" and "height" in ["graphics"] and type your native numbers.

You may want to make a copy of the file, before editing.

There is no options.lua in any of my DCS config folders.

 

Disregard, I found it.

Edited February 24, 2016 by Knubinator
Update with findings

[AVGHunter]

There is no options.lua in any of my DCS config folders.

 

Disregard, I found it.

 

Its not in mine. where did you find it?

[SkateZilla]

X:/Users/Saved Games/DCS.OpenAlpha/Config/options.lua

[Rangi]

;)

 

X:? How many drives do you have skate?

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