So I reinstalled the game Neverwinter Nights. This is my first time playing it on Win7 and I’m having a problem: It just plain won’t work on any resolution other than a windowed 800x600, which sucks. Before anyone suggests changing my laptop’s resolution or running things in compatibility mode or whatever, I’ve already been through all that. The only way the game runs without issues is like this.
Well, it’s a really tiny box and I’d rather not go cross-eyed trying to play it like that. So I’m trying to be sneaky and find a way around it. Is there a way I can zoom in on part of the screen? I tried using the standard Magnifier program but:
1.) It’s a little bitch and keeps scrolling whenever the cursor nears the edge of the screen. There are other scrolling options (like following a text cursor rather than the mouse cursor) but they make it impossible to position the zoomed-in screen over the game window to begin with.
2.) It only zooms-in in increments of 100. 100% is normal, obviously, and 200% zooms in too much.
Any other way to zoom in? I’ve tried Googling a solution but I only found people suggesting the Magnifier and people asking about how to zoom-in in web pages.
I know there’s gotta be a way to do this. Thanks in advance.
Well, Microsoft’s magnifier is still not as good as the one in Mac OS X, which would allow you to do what you want. If you don’t like it, all I can suggest is lowering your resolution when you play the game. There are programs out there that would let you do it automatically every time you run the program.
I wouldn’t go quite down to 800x600, but 1066x600 would work well. (1024x768 would work, too, but you’d probably have to tweak it to make it not stretch the screen.)
I’d also look into your graphics card settings, and see if you can turn on antialiasing. You’ll likely need it.
Edit: you may also have to set your graphics card to upscale, or else you’ll get a tiny image in the middle of the screen.
Changing my laptop’s resolution either a.) Has no effect on the game at all; or b.) Results in messed-up in-game graphics (such as the game taking up the same amount of space as it does in the provided screengrab only instead surrounded by a thick black border to fill up the screen or by making the in-game HUD do wonky things). I’ve literally tried every combination of laptop screen resolution and game resolution and it refuses to make the actual game go any larger than it appears in the pic above without it going nuts.
I just tried Control Panel > Display and fiddled with the zoom options there but the game either runs as if not under the affect of the zoom at all or half the screen gets cut off.
