Doomsday Engine

The Taskbar doesn't appear to scale correctly at resolutions below 1024x768.

The edges of the game world don't appear to render correctly at 1024x768 or below when the renderer appearance menu is open. Progressively worse the lower the resolution goes.

To ramble some more; the second one looks like a bug, but I suppose the first one might be personal preference; option(s) to manually scale the size of the taskbar and the horizontal scale of the renderer appearance menu.

Please attach a screenshot (or two) to clarify the issue.

My apologies, I meant 16:9.

Certainly, the few non 4:3 resolutions below 1024x768 that my card allows, appear to render the game world without issue. But any 4:3 resolution below 1024x768 produces rendering errors as shown in my screenshot, that get progressively worse the lower the resolution is below 1024x768.

Though I have noted that Dday doesn't appear to have a fall back, i.e it reverts back to the previous resolution, if it for some reason offers an unsupported resolution that the user selects?

Certainly, pixel doubling does reduce the motivation to use low resolutions (though I assume running the actual resolution, rather than pixel doubling to emulate it, would be less hardware intensive?).

It's more a case of it not looking professional if Dday can't display in every resolution it presents to the user in all cases; an extreme option would be for Dday not to display resolutions below X, if Deng team don't have interest in maintaining low resolutions.

On my computer, Dday also presents a low resolution my monitor doesn't support, which blanks my screen when selected. Hence my additional comment about Dday not appearing to have a fall back (i.e reverting back to the previous resolution) in such a case.

vermil wrote:

running the actual resolution, rather than pixel doubling to emulate it, would be less hardware intensive?

Yeah it is a little less intensive to use a lower actual resolution, however on modern hardware the difference should be quite negligible.

The UI can support any font sizes and resolutions, however in practice the problem is that the UI widgets don't all yet support updating their style at runtime. So one can already manually use the -dpi and -fontsize options to scale down the UI to fit smaller resolutions.

On my computer, Dday also presents a low resolution my monitor doesn't support, which blanks my screen when selected. Hence my additional comment about Dday not appearing to have a fall back (i.e reverting back to the previous resolution) in such a case.

Well, Doomsday shows the modes that the operating systems tells are available. I assume you're using Windows, so I would guess the video driver and monitor settings don't completely match up with each other.