Guess my time in CF is over, after 6-7 years. HELP!

Chris2mfingg

Well.... I just tried starting Cross Fire. However, the game is so badly coded, it switches my resolution from 1920x1080 to 1024x768, which seems to be the root resolution for this game. So, when I start the game I can only see half of the login-screen, then I can't do anything in-game, since half of the darn screen is gone. I can manually go to nvidia control panel and switch back to 1920x1080 again, but as soon as I leave a match it switches back to the stupid 1024x768. (I´m using dual monitors and the game falls into the second monitor, black bars appear on the sides.) (It should not be able to happen, but I'm not in charge of the coding in this game.)

I already completely cleaned my PC from drivers and reinstalled them. I cleaned my PC from Cross Fire and reinstalled it again. Same problem still appears. It all started when I shifted the Fullscreen(helskärm)- Aspect ratio(Bildförhållande)- setting in the nvidia control panel. https://imgur.com/Rjju2Ij
Of course I changed it back again, but the game never returned to its' past. I tried googling, but since this game is so small, I only found a few ones without any salvation.

FYI, I've played this game since 09, since 2012-13 with this pc. I've never had these problems before.
My monitors are BenQ XL2411Z and Acer G245HQ.
My GPUs are two gtx 690s = quad-SLI.
CPU = hexacore i7 3930k.
Windows 10 64bit.
..... The PC is years ahead of this game, so it's not anything with requirements.

Did this happen to anyone else, is there a solution? Otherwise, welp...

// Paying customer since 09.

Abel95

You can manually change the resolution to 1920x1080.


To do this, you need to change the settings in your CrossFire folder. Follow the following steps:


1) Go to Documents/CrossFire.
2) Find the file called "system.dat"
3) Open it with notepad.
4) Change the following highlighted number to 9 in the image below (First line):






This will make the game into 1920x1080.

5) Start CrossFire and test if this works.



If it does not work, I suggest you send in a support ticket: http://support.z8games.com/us/index.php?/Default/Tickets/Submit/Index

Chris2mfingg

Didn't work. The game is preset to 1024x768 and it takes over my pc. Can't change it for some weird reason. Well, bye cf until you get your sh1t together.

Abel95

Chris2mfingg wrote: »

Didn't work. The game is preset to 1024x768 and it takes over my pc. Can't change it for some weird reason. Well, bye cf until you get your sh1t together.

Have you tried to do a system restore? That might fix the problem since you changed your graphics settings.

Chris2mfingg

abel95 wrote: »

Have you tried to do a system restore? That might fix the problem since you changed your graphics settings.

It's been too long since last time I restored my info. Got loads of stuff I won't remove. I'm borrowing an external drive from a guy soon though. Might just reset my whole pc. I shouldn't need to do this though, but since they run on some ancient game driver I have to.

Mindjacked

I had a similar problem when I upgraded my monitor. The resolution would mess up when I had my settings in-game set to 16bit instead of 32bit. Only difference is I have my game on one monitor instead of two since they have like 5 inches apart in size, but I could try it when I get home.

Chris2mfingg

Mindjacked wrote: »

I had a similar problem when I upgraded my monitor. The resolution would mess up when I had my settings in-game set to 16bit instead of 32bit. Only difference is I have my game on one monitor instead of two since they have like 5 inches apart in size, but I could try it when I get home.

I've always had 32bit. I run dual monitors, but I want the game to stay on one of them. However, now it ruins the resolution of one monitor and takes up space on the second one too. It doesn't happen in cs go or any other fps I've tried to play. If only there was a way to block cf from changing my pc settings.

Chris2mfingg

Alrighty, I reset my pc. It's fine for now. Only got black bars, but I guess I have to live with that. //Close

[GM]Kanadian

Chris2mfingg wrote: »

Alrighty, I reset my pc. It's fine for now. Only got black bars, but I guess I have to live with that. //Close

Closing on request, let us know if it happens again and we'll try to help you out.