[Solved] Game window is larger than selected resolution - why? Because Windows "Scale and Layout" set to 125%

[dingotush]

This is probably a newbie question, but I really don't have a handle on why this happens or how to workaround/stop it.

In the launcher I created a new project at the default 1280x720 resolution. After a few days getting the main dialogue of the game down I turned to doing some backgrounds. To get a feel for what would be obscured by the say screen I screen-grabbed the running game, and was surprised to find it (minus the window decoration) was 1600x900! It had been upscaled by x1.25.

The background image I had roughed out was done at 1280x720 as that's what I had configured (and matches the gui.init line), and in a clear line style .png (rather than the typical .jpg). Sure enough there were jaggies on the lines from the upscaling. Not pretty!

My best guess is that somewhere in the depths there's logic that's saying 1280x720 on a 1920x1080 display is a poor choice, we can go bigger! Can this be stopped? I know the engine does scale when the window is re-sized by the user, but it would be nice if could start at the correct resolution. And with "the assets at their sharpest" as the launcher says.

If not, is there a work-around? If I make the background image larger (eg. 1600x900) it still scales it up even more.

[hell_oh_world]

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/other.ht ... sical_size

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label splashscreen:
  $ renpy.set_physical_size((config.screen_width, config.screen_height))
  return

[Imperf3kt]

It's also possible your screenshot software is grabbing from the frame buffer, which may have a different resolution to the video output depending on what technology the pixels on your monitor use. (pixels aren't actually square)

What happens if you press S and then look in the screenshots folder (located where you installed renpy if you're running from the launcher)

[dingotush]

So it turns out it was Windows/Operator error.

It's also possible your screenshot software is grabbing from the frame buffer, which may have a different resolution to the video output depending on what technology the pixels on your monitor use. (pixels aren't actually square)

That's a good point - I screen grabbed the whole display and the game was still the wrong size.

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label splashscreen:
  $ renpy.set_physical_size((config.screen_width, config.screen_height))
  return

This looked promising, but didn't actually change anything. It did get me looking elsewhere though, and I found the problem ...

About a year ago I started developing cataracts, and at some point I'd gone into Windows display settings and altered the "Scale and Layout" to 125% (Windows recommends 150% on my laptop) to make things easier to read. Post surgery I had completely forgotten I'd done this. Anyway it's now back at 100%, and RenPy is behaving as it should. Well, it always was!