Could you check how this .exe displays on your monitor?

Hey guys!

I have a shader to correct aspect ratio if your resolution differs from 1920x1080. I have two monitors myself, one is 1920x1080 and it works fine here. Another one is 1280x1024 and both my examples works fine. Though I'm still curious with some of the stuff like "keep screen ratio", see: http://community.clickteam.com/threads/92616-Confused-about-quot-keep-screen-ratio-quot-and-quot-tolerance-quot

Anyways, I'm afraid to send out the playable demo unless I know for sure my code works correctly. So, if you have a monitor that is different than 1920x1080, could you please check out these examples and report back? How did those appear on your monitor, your screen resolution and maybe aspect of your monitor? Every little helps! :)

EDIT: Also 1920x1080 users, if you have AERO theme on, it might not center correctly. Could you check?
It does not center correctly for me, but if I alt+tab to windows and back it then centers. Wtf!

It should appear like this:

Full HD (Resolution would match):
Attachment 16739

On my secondary monitor: (1280x1024, aspect corrected)
Attachment 16740

Two versions, on has "Keep screen ratio" ticked and the other not.
Attachment 16737
Attachment 16738

Thank you Clickers! :)

Hi Jesse,
My resolution is 2560x1440.

When I try to open *both* applications you provided, the screen flashes black and after about one second what I see is a white rectangle on the top-left side of the screen. ALT + tab has no effect.

Attachment 16744

I have to say that I had the same exact problem with some other applications made with mmf2/f2.5 (not every applications, just some of them). If other people suffer the same issue, it's probably a bug to be fixed by Clickteam.

Fabrizio

Hi faber!

Thank you very much for testing, as I said every bit helps. Now I know it does not work properly with 2560x1440, I will need to check my code and see if it's to blame or if there is a bug with Fusion.
I really hope it's my code, I just can't afford to wait for another fix. Meanwhile I'd appreciate if other people could test too!

Thanks again!

EDIT: Oh yeah I can test by creating virtual resolution, and using windowed instead of fullscreen. To test the scaling code at least, and there is something wrong with it when the resolution is higher than 1920x1080.

Here are my test results from your .exes
(hope you are not already borrowing from my bank account XD)

-keep ratio true
Attachment 16755

-keep ratio false
Attachment 16756

on a 1440x900 monitor

Thank you schrodinger!

I think I now know where the problem lies, I will upload another .exe once I fix it.
What confused me is that I did the testing with my 5:4 monitor, and of course 16:9 images will distort so my code was a bit funny. Anyways, I think I got it now, thanks guys! :)

Oh yeah I thought the topic sounds suspicious to say the least! Don't worry, with my coding skills it could never happen. :D

Alright, I updated my code.

It should keep the aspect 16:9 no matter of your screen aspect. Say you view it on 4:3 monitor, it should still appear exactly like it would on 16:9 monitor. Well, adding bigger borders of course. :)

Could you guys give it another go? I miss your bank accoun... no wait! :D

Here is the updated versions, fullscreen and windowed: Attachment 16775 and Attachment 16776

Thanks guys, this is really important for me and I can appreciate this! :)

Ok Jesse, did the testing again,
plese leave up some bucks for the HTML5 exporter X)

I'm on a different monitor now,
so (since it's natively 16:9) I tought could be a good idea to make two series of tests, on two different res.

Here are the results:

1440x900 windowed - seems ok
Attachment 16784

1440x900 fullscreen - moderately bad news
Attachment 16782
>> notice left-displacement with right-only vertical bar


1600x900 windowed - seems ok
Attachment 16785

1600x900 fullscreen - bad news :(
Attachment 16783
>> the screen was black, my monitor suggested in a popup white tag to switch to a different resolution/Hz, but that's exacty the one I was using :o
print-screen output was this image - without the above text I added for reference

Thanks schrodinger!

It seems to correct the aspect correctly this time around, which is great. Windowed seems to work just fine, but fullscreen does not, obviously.

It looks very similar to what happened when faber tried the older version. It works for me and my secondary monitor on fullscreen. I wonder what is happening here.

What Windows do you have? And do you have Aero based theme on? Could you try right clicking -> properties -> disable desktop composition.

It seems I still can't send out the demo after all, but hey that's cool. XD

EDIT: Maybe "Keep screen ratio" affects it? I disabled it: Attachment 16795
I'd appreciate if you could give this a go, I'm getting a bit desperate with this.

Hello Jesse, no problem and happy to help ;)

I'm on Windows7
aero is defaulted to ON,
I've tried disabling desktop composition,
and almost all of other options/combinations from that tab,
but keep getting the same result (black screen with notice to change resolution/frequency) on your last file.
No clue of what could be going on :(

Alright, thanks schrodinger! Let me know if you ever need some testing, I'd be happy to help!

I believe it's problem with Fusion then. I've been stuck with these screen problems for a long, long time. Truly hope CT solves this once for all soon.
A brilliant way to kill the creation. Argh, I think I just need to forget about the playable demo and blindly trust that CT will fix these problems and try to keep developing.

Hope to hear something from CT about this.

That's indeed a strange behaviour for fullscreen mode.

The windowed mode was ok and difference from a real fullscreen was hardly noticeable...
my user experience (limited to the staring-at-a-fixed-screen interaction X)) was fully satisfactory in this scenario,
if not better than a somewhat "intimidating" and start-flickering blind full screen XD

But I guess this isn't acceptable for your demo :(

Oh, thank you for your kindness, I think I could need some testing in the (hopefully-near) future
(and also your bank account, obviously XD)

Yaikes! :D

Sure thing, just send me PM so I won't miss it! :)

Ah, it would be awesome to have windowed fullscreen only, but the performance is not quite the same. Though it is odd as I have some choppiness with my current system but not with my older one which is far from specs of my current one. Just seems that the performance is a lot more consistent in real fullscreen, that's why I need to use it. Also I have a shader related crash when switching between fullscreen and windowed. I believe CT is fixing that as well. :)