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OpenArena => Technical Snafus => Topic started by: DeathCrypt on September 29, 2008, 03:25:28 PM



Title: Monitor out of range?
Post by: DeathCrypt on September 29, 2008, 03:25:28 PM
Hi i've just recently got OpenArena and I managed to install it pretty well. The only problem is that whenever I run it my screen says "monitor out of range". I've only got a tacky 1024 x 768 monitor but I can run pretty much any game made today on medium settings and I can here sound coming from it. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?


Title: Re: Monitor out of range?
Post by: dash9 on September 29, 2008, 10:25:02 PM
Hi i've just recently got OpenArena and I managed to install it pretty well. The only problem is that whenever I run it my screen says "monitor out of range". I've only got a tacky 1024 x 768 monitor but I can run pretty much any game made today on medium settings and I can here sound coming from it. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
Try opening a command prompt, cd to the OpenArena directory in Program Files and run:
Code:
openarena.exe +set r_mode -1 +set r_customwidth 1024 +set r_customheight 768

After it starts, you can type `/quit<enter> (the first character is an inverse apostrophe, at the left of the "1" key) to quit the game.

Once it works, change the configuration file and set those 3 variables to the values which worked for you. ~/Application Data/Open Arena/baseoa/q3config.cfg if I'm not mistaken. I'm assuming you use Windows.

PS good to hear people still download OpenArena ;)