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    Civ 5 Resolution Scaling

    Discussion in 'Razer' started by jpl20, Jun 8, 2014.

  1. jpl20

    jpl20 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey guys - so Civ 5 is able to run fine at native res, although the text is insanely small. However, when trying to play at a smaller resolution to make this more reasonable, the game is centered in the middle of the screen with black borders and refuses to go full screen. I have tried to lower my system resolution before starting the game, both using the windows settings and the Intel control panel; however, once I am in the game it immediately seems to revert back to native and the game is still stuck in the middle with a black border.

    This used to work fine by adjusting the windows resolution before launching the game, but I have not played in several weeks, and since that time I know there has been a GPU driver update that I am assuming is messing with this. Has anyone managed to run Civ 5 at a resolution lower than native (e.g. 1080p) and able to play fullscreen? Thanks
     
    jpl20, Jun 8, 2014
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    willoxxx Newbie

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    were you able to play with direct ? In my case it was no go
     
    willoxxx, Jun 11, 2014
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    dos101 Notebook Geek

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    I;m having the same issue (though I was never able to play it at native res). Gonna try some things when I get home to see if anything works. Kinda of a bummer that scaling issues are all over the place with some games.
     
    dos101, Jun 12, 2014
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    hfm Notebook Prophet

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    Yeah.. Civ V is a mess, with the most up to date drivers anyway.. (nVidia 337.88 and the May 2014 driver that came through Windows Update for the 4600).
     
    hfm, Jun 12, 2014
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    *bump* Anyone found any solutions to this problem?
     
    nix413, Jun 22, 2014
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    tusctodd Notebook Enthusiast

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    I don't know if Civ has this setting but a couple of other games I had the same issue and I changed it to Windowed-Fullscreen and it work perfectly.
     
    tusctodd, Jun 25, 2014
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