anyone here know how to force a game to change resolution

we've managed to get it to run in a window with alt-enter but it isn't resizable and that is Bad

seriously, game devs, *stop making your games fullscreen-only*

also, *stop making your games default to fullscreen even if there's an option to change to windowed*

we're poking through the itch.io bundle and we've come across two games so far that look interesting but have zero resolution options whatsoever

and this is a conscious choice on the part of the developers. they're both written in unity, which by default gives a pre-game popup asking you to set graphics options, including resolution and whether it should be windowed. they had to actually go in and turn that off

@monorail oh thank you

why do people develop games in inaccessible ways, bleh

@monorail ah great one of them seems to have disabled that too

@Felthry @monorail the game probably renders in a fixed resolution, adding scaling is extra effort and might look bad

@noiob @monorail But it can't render at a fixed resolution if it works in fullscreen across all sorts of different monitors

it doesn't do the "changing your resolution" flickering either

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@Felthry @monorail in fullscreen your GPU does the scaling, it's a relic from when CRTs supported arbitrary resolutions

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