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#1 2009-09-28 3:09 pm
- Mr. T
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- From: omnipresent
- Registered: 2002-04-02
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Where is QuakeLive?
I installed QuakeLive yesterday in OS X (man, this game is just as great today as it was a decade ago). Only trouble is fullscreen. It defaults to 1920x1200 which is great, but the aspect ratio is wrong. I can fix it in the console with r_aspectRatio = 2, followed by a good 'ol vid_restart. Obviously, I don't want to do this every time I start a new game. Now, I assume that I can put these lines in an ini file somewhere --trouble is, I don't know where the game is installed. Does anyone know?
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#2 2009-09-28 3:43 pm
- Mr. T
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- From: omnipresent
- Registered: 2002-04-02
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Re: Where is QuakeLive?
I found it. Username/Library/Application\ Support/QuakeLive/quakelive/home/baseq3. Made a file autoexec.cfg, added the line seta r_aspectRatio = "2", and all is right with the world.
For those who might be interested, you have to make a plain text file (not rtf), add aforementioned line, and change the extension to .cfg. Then right click the file, hit "Get Info," and make sure that .cfg is the only extension.
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#3 2009-09-29 7:55 am
Re: Where is QuakeLive?
In the game preferences you set the resolution for windowed mode, separately from the resolution for fullscreen.
But if you already knew that, maybe your solution is better.
The Mac version still has some bugs anyway.
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#4 2009-09-29 10:28 am
- Mr. T
- Best of both worlds
- From: omnipresent
- Registered: 2002-04-02
- Posts: 4226
Re: Where is QuakeLive?
The resolution is correct. The problem is that there's horizontal distortion (stretching) when using widescreen resolutions. This happens because the game doesn't recalculate the projection matrix based on resolution. This is really a hold-over from the Quake III days, when everyone had 4:3 monitors.
The bug can be fixed with a single line of code:
Code:
gluPerspective(fov, (float)width/height, near, far);
Shockingly, some modern games fail to implement this correctly.
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