Max Payne

buchtis · 3 May 2011 at 14:01

Afternoon lads/ladies,

Just installed Max Payne after craving to play it for ages but the resolution won't change for some reason.

I've already patched it to 1.05 and installed the community sound fix for Vista/Win 7 and all is well up until launching the game. I get a box pop up asking me for settings which i've configured for my monitor (1080p) but when it start up it looks like it's running at 640 x 480 and is horribly stretched across my 27" screen.

Any help will be appreciated, i've been wanting to play this game for ages and now that it's installed, I can't!

buchtis · 3 May 2011 at 14:07

Yeah. I get a little pop up box asking me what do I want to run the game at like resolution/AA/detail etc. and it seems to save the config but once you launch the game it just seems to default to a low resolution, both the menu screen and the game itself. I've had a look in the install folder but there isn't anything that I can change manually like a config file.

buchtis · 3 May 2011 at 14:53

Cheers Kempster but it doesn't seem to be working unless i'm doing something wrong.

The default is:

Display Height - 438
Display Width - 780

And i've tried the following:

Display Height - 1080
Display Width - 1920

Hit OK once i've changed the values but it still runs at low res and the value changes back to the original one.

buchtis · 3 May 2011 at 15:03

I bloody hope so, it's a 5970 which is more than capable of running Max Payne lol.

I'll have a wee go at changing to different resolutions, I assume i'm doing the reg edit correctly then?

buchtis · 3 May 2011 at 15:31

OK so apparently the resolution changer thing on the game itself works yet the images still look like 640 x 480 even though I click on the properties of the picture and it says 1920 x 1080...

So it's basically like it's outputting at 1920 x 1080 yet the image quality looks low res and stretched, wtf.

Here's some images. I don't know if my eyesight is going or something but these don't look proper to me:

Look at the size of the mouse cursor ffs!

buchtis · 3 May 2011 at 16:31

All I have installed is just the display driver from AMD, not CCC or anything else as I do over clocking through MSi Afterburner and change AA/AF settings in game so i've never needed to install it. The game fills the whole screen like in the screenshots and i'm not playing it windowed, looks like there's not going to be a fix for this then.