Riven, Only 640 x 480? Argghh!..

[Daniel Ros]

Relax.

Riven changes down to 640x480 on loading withiout you even noticing and on
quitting your desktop is exactly the same.

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Daniel Ros
E-mail: d...@ctn.clara.net.
Homepage: http://www.ctn.clara.net/dan/

[Fred & Julie Burger]

On Sat, 01 Nov 1997 22:02:49 GMT, dwa...@atlanta.com (Doug Warner)
wrote:

>As much as I liked Myst, it's 640 x 480 display was it's biggest
>annoyance. Before playing, I'd have to switch win95's screen
>resolution to 640x480, which would squash all the desktop icons in
>toward the center, making it necessary to rearrange them afterward..
>
>Before I buy this game, I'll need to know if it can automatically
>switch video modes to 640 x 480 whenever it's screen is up front, then
>revert to the system's chosen resolution (1024 x 768) when it's
>terminated or alt-tabbed to the background.
>
>Or, is there a no-reboot resolution switcher utility that remembers
>desktop icon positions for each mode (QuickRes doesn't require a
>reboot, but it does move the icons..
>
>I'm NOT going to spend hours pushing desktop icons around again,
>especially if it costs me $50.00 to do so.
>
>BTW: How does it look when expanded to fill a 17" monitor?

On my monitor, which is a 15" set to 800 X 600 32-bit color, Riven
sets it to 640 X 480 (16-bit color?) when the game starts and back to
800 X 600 when it exits and does NOT mess up the icons, so I think
it is doing what you want. After playing it for a few days, I am very
impressed! I think it's well worth buying.

- Fred

Fred and Julie Burger
e-mail: f...@sos.net
URL: http://www.sos.net/~fjb