Msts small screen

[tyman]

I was tying to get my Msts's screen to fit that of my laptops, but insted i accidentaly made my screen really small and i tryed to change it back using the list in the options menu in msts and that dident help. How would I change the screen back to its regular size?

[derekmorton]

Do you have one install or multiple?

Cheers

[tyman]

Do you have one install or multiple?

Cheers

i dont understand what your asking.

[derekmorton]

Where is your MSTS install?, do you have one install or more than one?
Do you have an external monitor on your laptop?

Cheers

[tyman]

my msts is installed in Computer/OS(C/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft games/Train Simulator.

[derekmorton]

Do you have only one install of MSTS? and is it on your laptop?

[tyman]

yes

[derekmorton]

I will take that as being yes to both questions.

Please make sure you answer all questions that I ask or my help will be limited.

What is the laptop screen resolution set to?
What is the maximum resolution of the screen?
What resolution are you trying to set MSTS to?

Cheers

[tyman]

I will take that as being yes to both questions.

Please make sure you answer all questions that I ask or my help will be limited.

What is the laptop screen resolution set to?
What is the maximum resolution of the screen?
What resolution are you trying to set MSTS to?

Cheers

it is set to 1600 x 900
its max size is 1600 x 900
i want mststo be 1024 x 768

[OTTODAD]

Did you change the size of the screen display by using the monitor's screen adjustments buttons or other built-in functions and everything displayed on your monitor is now the same small size, showing black edges around it ?

As far as I know the MSTS Display options adjust the resolution of the display and not it's window size on the monitor.

What type of graphics are being used, on the mobo chip or card and have you been messing with the drivers for them ?

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[tyman]

no. my desktop screen is normal (no black lines) but other programs were affected too (railworks) but i was able to get the screen on them back to normal. I beleive i am using an OpenGL carb but im not quite sure. and no iwas not messing with the drivers....i think.

[GoGoran]

What native screen resolution does your laptop have ?

[OTTODAD]

My desktop screen is normal (no black borders) but other programs were affected too (railworks) but i was able to get the screen on them back to normal. I believe i am using an OpenGL card but I'm not quite sure and no i was not messing with the drivers....i think.

Check what your computer has with Start / Run dxdiag which will tell you what it uses under it's various tabs.



Then try this.

Right-Click in an empty part of your desktop which will display this and make sure that your Desktop Icons are not set to be arranged in any way to stop them getting all jumbled up when changing the resolution of your Desktop:



Depending on how cluttered with Icons it is it may still mess up the positioning of some.

Then click on Properties and set your Screen Resolution like shown, MSTS preferring Medium (16-bit colors) and do the same in the MSTS DISPLAY OPTIONS.



In the Train Simulator folder run the mprofile.exe with left-double-click to make sure that MSTS is aware of the graphics card being used.

What do you see then when running MSTS ?

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