Different Resolution Setting

[Ryan Nienhuis]

I got a new 4k monitor, and Vintage Story runs like crap with 4k resolution.  Putting the resolution scale lower does help, but it still runs bad, and looks awful.  I can get much better performance if I manually set windows to a lower screen resolution before running the game.  Perfect performance.  And not only that, but the graphics are WAY better.  Much much clearer.  Would it be possible to include a normal screen resolution setting, like most other games have?  That way I wouldn't need to be changing the resolution in windows all the time.  

[Streetwind]

There is currently an issue that results in screwy graphics if you use the built-in Windows UI scaling. And I expect that, since you have a 4K resolution screen, you must be relying heavily on scaling up the UI to keep it usable.

See here.

I can however tell you that it is going to be fixed in 1.13. I've confirmed the fix works in the prerelease builds. So stay patient a little while longer while the gamebreaking bugs in the new features are being ironed out. As a temporary workaround, you can play the game in windowed mode, which is much less affected.

[Ryan Nienhuis]

Thanks!  This might have been happening.  It would explain why everything looked so bad.  It wasn't the reason for my low performance, though.  I just now figured that one out. I spent a long time tweaking settings in both the game and my video drivers.  It took a while, but I fixed it.  I had set the Max FPS to 60, because that's the maximum my monitor can do.  The game is all sorts of jerky at that setting.  For some reason, If I set it to 75 the game runs really smoothly. But it goes back to being jerky if I set it too much higher.   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edited July 24, 2020 by Ryan Nienhuis