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Offline Colonol Dekker

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Thanks AdmiralRalWood, I actually discovered this last night, but obviously I was asleep whenever you posted.  Here is how I managed to fix it:

Disabling my second monitor, disabling display scaling in the compatability options and switching my resolution both on the desktop and for the game to run at 2560 x 1440 worked just fine for me.  It isn't 4k, but considering it is a 20-year-old engine at this point I am impressed that it runs at 1440p with no issues.

 

Offline ksotar

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alas, this is a known issue with resolutions above 1080p that is difficult to diagnose due to HUD coders not having monitors that big

Actually, it is usually possible to create "custom" resolution for monitor, that could be bigger than its real one. At least Nvidia and Intel video drivers have that setting in their control panels. Just note.

 

Offline m!m

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I tried that with the AMD equivalent of that option but it still didn't show the bugged behavior so it's probably an issue with either display scaling or some sort of weird interaction with an actual 4K display.

 

Offline ksotar

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Suddenly I realized, that joystick doesn't work in 3.8.0 (while it did in 3.7.2).

I have it detected OK:


But it just don't work. And wxLauncher detects something strange, it shows three devices, while in reality there are two:


But neither of them works in FSO. I could imagine that it may be a problem with wxLauncher, but for 3.7.2 it detects two just fine. I can't distinguish between them, and only one of them works, but it works at least:


Actually, this problem exists with the current master branch too.
« Last Edit: December 09, 2017, 10:45:56 am by ksotar »

 

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I could imagine that it may be a problem with wxLauncher, but for 3.7.2 it detects two just fine.
It's still most likely a problem with wxLauncher; try again with wxLauncher 0.12.0-rc.2.
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Offline ksotar

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I'm using just that. Strangely, I haven't find a way to see wxLauncher version, but I double-checked the installer file I've used.

 
Strangest issue ever: I just upgraded to this, from 3.7.something, and now...

Ships with the "Show Ship" flag no longer show up. Some ships (Dragon, Manticore, and Bellerophon) kind of need this when you make them player-flyable, because they have firepoints waaaay in front of the eyepoint. If you can't see the hull, it looks like your guns & beams are spawning out of empty space.

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Offline m!m

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I fixed that bug and opened a pull request with the changes: https://github.com/scp-fs2open/fs2open.github.com/pull/1724

 

Offline LoneFan

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It is my understanding that the 64-bit build will have more memory. Or should I say access to more system memory allowing it to handle more.
Is this right?

 

Offline m!m

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Yes, if you have a 64-bit OS then you should use the 64-bit build to avoid memory issues.

 
Is there any chance of getting multi USB's to work? I have a X-55, flight pedals, and a few other USB devices that can't be used.
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As of right now the only way to do that is with 3rd party software like Vjoy and UCR. You can combine all of your devices into one virtual device and then map it with UCR(universal control remapper).

However, you'll still be limited to only 5 axes(axis-es?) in game. You can map the unusable axes to a button in UCR and use them that way though.
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IANACoder, but the implementation of SDL means it's now theoretically possible for engine support to be added for additional axes and multiple controllers.  Obviously actually developing that support is non-trivial.