Working at high resolutions

[Kinmoku]

Hi all,

I'm a "retina display" mac user and ex-graphic designer, so I always, always try to make my games at the highest resolution possible!

My question is, will I run into problems using a 2560x1440 resolution? I have adjusted options.rpy:

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    config.screen_width = 2560
    config.screen_height = 1440

and gui.rpy:

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init python:
    gui.init(2560, 1440)

.. and things seem to, more or less, be working fine (I still need to re-adjust some menus), but I noticed a drop in frame-rate when panning a scene. The image file is pretty big (5120x1440) but the panning is pretty clunky and doesn't look good So much, that I'm thinking of scrapping this idea and working at 1920x1080 again. Smoothness > Resolution, I think.

[xela]

That takes a huge amount of memory... you could try increase cache size but it's a very high res to work with and therefor a bit risky.

[Kinmoku]

Okay. I'll probably scale the assets down to 1920x1080 then. Shame, it looks beautiful at that resolution (when not animating ofc!)