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Chronicles of Mystery Tree of Life #1027999
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This might be an odd sort of question and I probably should pose it on Big Fish Games but thought I may get a better answer here.
Thing is I bought the above game back in 2011, downloaded, played it and enjoyed it but the other day thought I'd like to replay it and downloaded it again (as you are able to with Big Fish). The trouble is that once it was installed this time it would only play on about two thirds of the screen, all over to the right hand side. There is no way to alter the resolution in the game menu, so consequently changed the resolution of my monitor in the normal way which made not one jot of difference. The only thing I can think of doing is uninstalling the thing and try downloading and installing it all over again - just a dratted nuisance.
So.... if anyone has any brilliant better ideas I'd love to hear them. Anyway, in the meantime thanks just in case! smile
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Re: Chronicles of Mystery Tree of Life [Re: JoAJ] #1028029
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Did you have a widescreen monitor the first time you played it?
It's not a widescreen game.

I don't know why it would play on the right two thirds of the screen instead of centered with vertical black columns on the sides on a widescreen monitor. But check for scaling options in your monitor and video card settings.

Re: Chronicles of Mystery Tree of Life [Re: Jenny100] #1028088
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Heavens, I'd never thought of that but it's quite possible that I bought it before I bought either this computer or this screen, could have been on the old XP computer with a smaller screen. Still, I wouldn't have thought that would have made all that much difference, wouldn't it just have just played it smaller on this screen but in the middle? Is there anyway to change it? I did try changing my monitors resolution but that didn't make any difference to the game.

Re: Chronicles of Mystery Tree of Life [Re: JoAJ] #1028094
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Most video cards these days have scaling properties in their Control Panel applets - see if you got one that specifies center...

Re: Chronicles of Mystery Tree of Life [Re: JoAJ] #1028120
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Some monitors also have scaling options.

Re: Chronicles of Mystery Tree of Life [Re: Jenny100] #1028122
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Yes mine does have a scaling option but changing it didn't seem to make any difference, Ive tried all 3 options.

Re: Chronicles of Mystery Tree of Life [Re: JoAJ] #1028124
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Since this is a BF game sometimes this Tip works :
Go to the Compatibility tab in the games exe file and put a check mark on: "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" and see if that helps, worth a try.

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Re: Chronicles of Mystery Tree of Life [Re: Jenny100] #1028180
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Thanks for all your help! smile I'd never even thought of looking for scaling option on the Game exe. file but found it, checked it - and it worked!!!!! happydance Now at last I can replay the game so thanks once again.

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Glad you are able to replay the game, this scaling thing is usually fixed automatically in games created within the last 2 to 3 years, otherwise it has to be done manually, especially for those of us who change the DPI settings within our Screen resolution option.

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