Yuri's Revenge - keep menus in correct aspect ratio?

[TaxOwlbear]

Currently, YR stretches all menus to whatever aspect ratio your monitor has (16:9 in my case). Is there a way to keep the 4:3 aspect ratio and display the menus with black bars at the sides instead?

[Nyerguds]

Well, the easiest solution is to give the game a resolution that makes it exactly fill the monitor, instead of a 4:3 one...

 

For the rest, whether or not it gets scaled is usually a Windows or graphics driver setting.

[SiRaLeX]

I agree with Nyerguds on this one. Resolutions, especially native ones are underestimated by many.

 

To be honest, I don't quite get why people use awkward non-native resolutions on their flat screens, whereas every single of them claims that they know what a native resolution is. Oh well... Idiots are everywhere (no offence to TaxOwlbear, though [his name reminds me of Tamoxifen]).

 

 

[TaxOwlbear]

Well, the easiest solution is to give the game a resolution that makes it exactly fill the monitor, instead of a 4:3 one...

That is what I'm doing: The game fills my entire screen because I'm running it in 1920x1080. But what I would like to have is is the battlefield being displayed in 16:9 but the menus being displayed in 4:3. RA2 Vanilla does that, so I figured there could be a way to run YR like that too.

[Nyerguds]

Wasn't there some ini option to make it not switch resolutions?

 

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"AllowModeToggle", is that the one?

[TaxOwlbear]

That option doesn't seem to exist in the RA2 and YR .ini files. The only video options are the resolutions and StretchMovies (which doesn't seem to do anything).

[tomsons26]

You can only set the menu resolution in RA2. In YR it's hardcoded to run the menu and loadscreens at 800x600.

Iirc People have looked into disabling this hardcoded function and restoring it to the way it was in RA2 many times but no one has been successful at it.

 

This stretching you are talking about is solely done by the GPU driver, you need to disable it in the GPU Control Panel.

Afik you can't control this from a application it's always controlled by the driver.

[SiRaLeX]

This stretching you are talking about is solely done by the GPU driver, you need to disable it in the GPU Control Panel.

Could be done by the monitor, too.

 

Just open your ra2(md).ini and set these values:

 

[Video]
ScreenWidth=XXXX
ScreenHeight=YYYY

Wallah.

 

It won't change the menus but it sure as hell will change the game (quite literally).

 

[Nyerguds]

SiRaLeX, that is completely totally not what the topic is about...

[Milkey Wilkey]

Currently, YR stretches all menus to whatever aspect ratio your monitor has (16:9 in my case). Is there a way to keep the 4:3 aspect ratio and display the menus with black bars at the sides instead?

 

That happens because your monitor is probably connected via VGA cable hence it recieves analog signal, wich most todays monitors stretch from 4:3 to 16:9 for resolutions below 1280x960. to prevent that you have to connect it through DVI or HDMI, that should solve the problem. if you use external monitor with a notebook, then you have to set it to duplicate laptop's main screen. if it still happens with digital signal, then the problem is 95% in misconfigured driver

[TaxOwlbear]

I'm using a HDMI cable, not a VGA one. I checked Catalyst. The right option seems to be "Enable GPU Scaling". It's currently turned on, but that can't seem be turned off. There is an option ("Maintain Aspect Ratio"), but it's greyed out.

[Milkey Wilkey]

are you sure it is HDMI on both sides? if so, try to change desktop resolution to see, if options you mention became chengable

 

if that works try to change resolution back - it will maintain your options