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#41 User is offline   Genma Saotome 

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Posted 30 December 2013 - 11:33 AM

Whatever you did James made a world of difference: 29 seconds vs. 6 minutes, 40 seconds. Will advise if subsequent restarts take an unusually longer time (the others seemed to me to need more time as reuse occurred; might be a false impression tho).

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Posted 30 December 2013 - 12:57 PM

I was curious, how much time would elapse till this question arises. :rofl2: I think your problem is exactly the opposite: the aspect ratio of the route loading image is preserved, so you don't see its bottom. I expect a long argument by the team about stretching vs. zooming, seeing top vs. bottom, or a possible moving of the picture for some seconds. :crazy: Current behavior is zooming by keeping the aspect ratio, seeing the top. But anything is possible.

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Posted 30 December 2013 - 12:59 PM

What about doing it like MSTS: Add black areas to the parts of the screen that won´t be covered by the image if it is resized to fit the screen?

(keyword is "like MSTS") :rofl2:

Cheers, Markus

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Posted 30 December 2013 - 01:24 PM

View Postmarkus_GE, on 30 December 2013 - 12:59 PM, said:

What about doing it like MSTS: Add black areas to the parts of the screen that won´t be covered by the image if it is resized to fit the screen?

(keyword is "like MSTS") :rofl2:

Cheers, Markus

I think it's the best solution.
As it is now, on my 16:9 screen route 3:4 splash screens appear with cut text strings and so on. It's not the same thing as cutting a cabview.

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Posted 31 December 2013 - 09:06 AM

I wouldn´t call it excellent - excellent it would be if one could resize the screen to fit the aspect ration of the program running :)

But it´s the same way Win7 handles the msts 4:3 window on a 16:9 monitor. :)

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Posted 01 January 2014 - 02:46 AM

I've found a bug in the loading screen I think.

When I start as server I accidently had the wrong route selected so I closed the Loading screen. (I run windowed)
The OR closed and I restarted it and tried to start with the right route selected but it gave me an error.

Looking through the processes at windows task manager I was the RunActivity.exe was running multiple times.
If I killed the process the OR main menu would come back.

Hope you can confrim the problem or fix it.
Versions was X1913

Cheers Jordi

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Posted 01 January 2014 - 08:12 AM

That also happens to me. And other thing is that I can't see the loading bar... Not even in full screen. :/

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Posted 03 January 2014 - 02:12 AM

I've tested X1915, and it does work on full screen but it doesn't on windowed mode. :oldstry: Just to report it...

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Posted 03 January 2014 - 05:43 AM

It works for me in windowed mode as well... Something strange must be going on your computer, by also considering your loading bar issue.

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Posted 03 January 2014 - 07:15 AM

Does your parent´s laptop have a different aspect ration than your gaming laptop?

Cheers, Markus

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