Torchlight Resolution Issue and Windows 7

[Opie]

Over the weekend I reformatted and upgraded my box to Windows 7 Pro 64-bit from XP Pro 32. Since I have never downgraded to an LCD display (the slow “refresh” on LCDs drive me crazy) from my trusty 21” Trinitron I immediately ran into display issues with Win 7 and Nvidia’s drivers not playing nice with CRTs. The new NV drivers force scaling relative to an LCD and Win 7 will not allow me to load the official Sony CRT drivers which would allow access to the NV scaling menu. This led to big issues with native resolutions and Win 7 displaying the desktop and games in a box (not utilizing 100% of the display area – this is a known, reported bug to Nvidia). I was finally able to solve the problems by running the 182.50 (Vista 64) Forceware and everything started humming along very smoothly. Except for Torchlight.

My specs:
Win 7 Pro 64
Intel Quad Q6600 @ 3.4ghz
4 gigs RAM
Nvidia GTX 280
Creative X-Fi Fatality

I run my desktop at 1280 x 960 and game at 1600 x 1200. The issue I began having (Torchlight was the first game I re-installed) sees Torchlight revert to 1024 x 768 whenever I select 1600 x 1200 and hit apply. I tried it both with and without enabling AA. I can select 1280 x 960/AA with no problem. Fearing the driver bug I had been dealing with I hurriedly installed Titan Quest, Borderlands, and CoD 4. All games rescaled and ran at 1600 x 1200 flawlessly. I then tried to change resolution in the Torchlight config file, but it continued to revert to 1024 x 768. All of this leads me to believe that the problem lay with Torchlight.

Any ideas on how to solve?

[darthpanda16]

Try running the game in Windowed mode, in one of the preset choices in the Options menu.

Any changes?

[Brock]

There is currently a bug in the game which prevents the game from running in fullscreen resolutions *higher* than your Windows desktop resolution. Because LCDs are so pervasive, this isn't ever even noticed by most users. Unfortunately, we haven't identified a workaround yet. We hope to address it in a future update to the game, but don't have the fix in just yet.

[Opie]

Thanks for the quick response, Brock.

I'll keep a lookout for the fix.

[drglock]

This may not be only related to Windows 7. I am currently running Win XP and have the same problem. I have tried multiple times to increase my resolution above 1024, but it when it comes back into the game it is always still set to 1024.

** Just wanted to update that setting the desktop resolution to 1600 DID in fact allow Torchlight to also run un 1600 mode. Thank you for the info! Now fix that dam corrupt save game file on crashes during loading screen!

[Patejl]

A have an exactly same problem, after changing resolution to higher resolution than my desktop resolution, game reset that to 1024x768 + turn off antialiasing in graphic settings.

Windows 7 x64 Home Premium
Core 2 Duo 8200
4 GB RAM
Geforce 8800 GT (driver 195.62)
CRT monitor

[atomhead]

Same problem. Windows 7. Reverts back to 1024 resolution even when desktop is same setting as game (1920x1080). Taking off fullscreen just makes it say 640x480 (but I think it's 1024x768). Changing resolution has no effect.