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Dawn Angelheart · Aug 13, 2009, 12:10 AM // 00:10

I started guild wars today and eveyrthing was out of proportion so i changed the resolution in game but its unsupported by this monitor. now i cannot open the game to change it. instead i get a blue screen saying it cannot run, but i dont know how to fix it. any ideas?

Snograt · Aug 13, 2009, 01:35 AM // 01:35

Run GW with the -windowed switch

Code:

"C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -windowed

^change that if your GW is not in the default location.

Elder III · Aug 13, 2009, 02:47 AM // 02:47

if everything was out of proportion from what it is normally you may have a corrupted gw.dat file...

Killamus · Aug 13, 2009, 03:44 AM // 03:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elder III

if everything was out of proportion from what it is normally you may have a corrupted gw.dat file...

Or his monitor's resolution may be unsupported too. It sounds like stretching to me.

Go with Snograts, if that doesn't fix it then I would re-download the GW.Dat. However, this really doesn't seem like a GW.Dat problem.

Quaker · Aug 13, 2009, 05:02 PM // 17:02

You didn't state what rez you were trying and what type of monitor you have.

But anyway - to add to what Snograt said. Go to Start, then Run, and then type what Snoggie said into the Run box and hit Enter. Or, alternately, you can edit the "target" line of your GW shortcut and re-edit it to take out the -windowed later.

Anyway, once you get GW running in a window, you can set the in-game rez. You didn't say what sort of monitor you have, but as a general rule, you should set the game rez to the same as your Windows desktop rez.

- in the case of an old CRT monitor, the desktop/game rez can be any rez the monitor supports.

- in the case of an LCD monitor, the desktop/game rez should be the "native" rez of the monitor. The native rez in the case of an LCD is determined by the physical number of pixels on the screen. Typical values would be 1024x768 or 1280x1024 for 4:3 monitors, or values like 1440x800, 1680x1050 for widescreen LCDs.

- in both cases, check the manual that came with the monitor, or look them up on line to find out what rez the monitor supports (for CRT) or what the native rez of the monitor is (for LCD).

- to find out what your desktop rez is, right-click on the desktop and select "properties" (or "personalize", in Vista). Find the desktop settings and see what the desktop is set at. Set the game to the same rez. (The desktop normally defaults to the native rez of the monitor.)