Lonnie's message on the home phone when I came back to listen to it before the end.

Id say the part where the resolution wouldnt change making me uninstall

Is that supposed to be a gotcha? Why?

Originally posted by Brooke:

Is that supposed to be a gotcha? Why?

For a game thats relatively modern to not be able to reduce the screen res says plenty about the optimisation the devs are going for. I tried to play this over a year ago after buying it only to see the res didnt get reduced. Now i dont know about you but i wouldnt prefer playing a mystery walk through game in 30 fps

I misunderstood what you meant by resolution c:

Originally posted by Lar Dass:

Originally posted by Brooke:

Is that supposed to be a gotcha? Why?

For a game thats relatively modern to not be able to reduce the screen res says plenty about the optimisation the devs are going for. I tried to play this over a year ago after buying it only to see the res didnt get reduced. Now i dont know about you but i wouldnt prefer playing a mystery walk through game in 30 fps

The game is perfectly able to reduce its resolution. I just tried it in fullscreen; it supports 48:9 resolutions on my 3-monitor setup (with nvidia surround) and 16:9 resolutions as well.

Whatever you have experienced seems to be a singular occurence, not the general case.

Proof:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2426709180

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2426711456

Originally posted by mendel:

Originally posted by Lar Dass:

For a game thats relatively modern to not be able to reduce the screen res says plenty about the optimisation the devs are going for. I tried to play this over a year ago after buying it only to see the res didnt get reduced. Now i dont know about you but i wouldnt prefer playing a mystery walk through game in 30 fps

The game is perfectly able to reduce its resolution. I just tried it in fullscreen; it supports 48:9 resolutions on my 3-monitor setup (with nvidia surround) and 16:9 resolutions as well.

Whatever you have experienced seems to be a singular occurence, not the general case.

Proof:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2426709180

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2426711456

Thats tacoma and not gone home though?
Also to clarify the resolution of the game can be changed but it doesnt change the true resolution of the screen unlike tacoma which youve shown
When i started gone home and tried to go down res it simply made the entire screen blurry whilst still maintaining 1080p screen resolution as opposed to what i was trying to go down to, this was evident as the screen just blurred and the steam fps counter remained the same size, house party also has this issue that even certain reliable launch setting commands failed to fix

That's really a shame for such an otherwise stellar game :c

Originally posted by Lar Dass:

Thats tacoma and not gone home though?

Sorry, that's what you get when you mix comments in your mind.

Originally posted by Lar Dass:

Id say the part where the resolution wouldnt change making me uninstall

So, the game runs in "borderless windowed" mode only, not true fullscreen. Some older game engines have problems if you switch to another window if they're running fullscreen, and in fact there's a utility on Steam that lets you run fullscreen games as "borderles windowed". So my guess is that Gone Home uses that kind of engine, which only leaves with the option to change your desktop resolution before you start the game if you want to run it at a different resolution on an older system.

Originally posted by mendel:

Originally posted by Lar Dass:

Id say the part where the resolution wouldnt change making me uninstall

So, the game runs in "borderless windowed" mode only, not true fullscreen. Some older game engines have problems if you switch to another window if they're running fullscreen, and in fact there's a utility on Steam that lets you run fullscreen games as "borderles windowed". So my guess is that Gone Home uses that kind of engine, which only leaves with the option to change your desktop resolution before you start the game if you want to run it at a different resolution on an older system.

Yes i have acknowledged that as a possible solution but it seems unnecessary. Had this been a 2001 game i would expect something like this but even 2001 games atleast allow the game to be changed into a resolution the player decided, and gone home is not a console port either which could also be understandable

Well, then you may want to adjust your expectations. Like I wrote, Borderless Gaming exists precisely because back then, windows had issues with players running games full-screen and then switching to their browser or messenger and back to the game, and that affected big-name games like Payday 2 and others. It's a technology issue you wouldn't expect a 4-person indie dev team to singlehandedly solve; and the way to prevent their players from having the game crash on them, losing progress, was to run the game as "borderless fullscreen".

You're actually the first player I've seen complain about that, so I guess there weren't a lot of people having your issues with the frame rate. (In fact, its resource demands are such that even if I change its video options from min to max, my frame rate remains unchanged at 147 fps.)

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