"Margrave: Blacksmith's Daughter" - screen size question
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10/24/16 03:56 PM
10/24/16 03:56 PM
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I decided to play the trial on this game, because I had played a couple of others in the series. It downloaded fine, and I checked out the Game Options. Not much except choosing between Full Screen and/or Maintain Screen Ratio. I chose Full Screen. Game loaded fine, but I soon realized in the first HOG screen I encountered, I could not see the bottom half of the list of objects that needed to be found. Oops. ha ha Then, I realized I could not see my Inventory, either. So, I needed to exit the game and take another look at the Options Menu. Problem was, the game controls were also inaccessible off the bottom of the screen, so I had to do an old CTRL + ALT + DELETE bailout. So all that happened. First time ever.
I reopened the game and turned off Full Screen Mode and chose Maintain Screen Ratio. That gave me the full game screen, but it was shrunk down to about 10 x 12 inches in size! (I have a 34" monitor.)
My question: Before I write to Big Fish, has anyone encountered this with a game before? If it is fixable, what is the fix? Thought I'd ask here first, since I know many people play BF games.
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Re: "Margrave: Blacksmith's Daughter" - screen size question
[Re: Reenie]
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10/24/16 08:40 PM
10/24/16 08:40 PM
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Hi Reenie, I remember this game and I also had trouble seeing the bottom half of the HOs and even seeing the Inventory bar, mind you I am playing on a 17 inch laptop. Anyway, I realized that this game like other games, the Companies in question do not always automatically adjust the DPI, so I have to manually do this myself. I went to the Game Directory and found the : Margrave_The_Blacksmiths_Daughter.exe and then clicked on the Compatibility Tab and added a check-mark to "Disable display scaling on High DPI settings" and this did the trick for me. So this might work for you.
Good luck
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Re: "Margrave: Blacksmith's Daughter" - screen size question
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10/26/16 12:53 PM
10/26/16 12:53 PM
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Yes, being able to purge our Game List would be nice! Over the years, I have accumulated a couple hundred. There are quite a few on there that I never will play again, either because they are too old and simple, unsophisticated, or just annoying in some respect. ha ha
One thing about the "fix" noted above for playing the Margrave game is that it changes your screen for everything else as well. I am not thrilled with what it did to all other programs, but it is OK for the time being. Just saying, if you do make the change in your Settings in order to accommodate a game problem like this, be sure to note what you did so you can reverse it again once you finish with the game.
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