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jage
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OK, seriously, do you all play on 800x600 monitor setting? A lot of games won't scale with the browser zoom (Castaway II for example).

I use FF+NoSquint on a 1920x1200 and I can barely see these games, often can't read the text. In addition many use a screen clipping that allows objects off scree to be viewed (meaning the clipping zooms) for example in Castaway II I get 30% more map in the right and lower sides, or the bug that crawls across goes out of scene but stays on my screen.

Many games on here work fine, the whole game scales when zoomed. Most of jtmb02's work for example. Others have weird effects like the title screen being zoomed but the game itself not.

I'm NOT changing my screen resolution for flash game, but I did think maybe I should ask if there is something else I'm missing- you know, if there is some obvious answer besides blaming the game designers for not knowing how to make their vector based flash games scale...

So:
1. am I missing something?
2. do you all seriously run 800x600 or what?

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Patrick2011
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I run with a resolution of 1336x768 on my computer, so I don't have this problem.

acmed
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on my desktop, everything is fine, but my screen on my laptop, i have to zoom out. it's all on the screen size

psnz
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2. do you all seriously run 800x600 or what?


Not at all!

I have two 1920x1080 monitors on my computer, but I generally play on just one of the two screens (even though I effectively have a desktop that's 3840 pixels wide.

Like you, I find it incredibly annoying when games don't scale. I generally make a comment about this when I review the game, and I deliberately rate it lower.

Fortunately, if it's a good game, at least you can use Ctrl+ and Ctrl- keystrokes in most modern browsers to change the zoom to suit.
xeano321
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I am running 1280x1024. I dont have this problem. Maybe try either:

1. Reduce the screen resolution.

2. Try hitting Ctrl and the + sign. It sometimes helps.

3. Maybe your monitor is not equipped to handle such a high resolution.

brp47
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1366 x 668 HD landscape screen with l.e.d here

nah it works perfectly ok for me.

xeano is right do those, also fiddle around with your monitor settings also ctrl+scrolling increases and lowers screen size.

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I run 1156x768 resolution and 1280x960 resolution and I have no issues on either of those scales except for really small games that are unusually small.
Since your's runs on 1920x1200, it could be your screen resolution.

OK, seriously, do you all play on 800x600 monitor setting? A lot of games won't scale with the browser zoom (Castaway II for example).

I use FF+NoSquint on a 1920x1200 and I can barely see these games, often can't read the text. In addition many use a screen clipping that allows objects off scree to be viewed (meaning the clipping zooms) for example in Castaway II I get 30% more map in the right and lower sides, or the bug that crawls across goes out of scene but stays on my screen.

Many games on here work fine, the whole game scales when zoomed. Most of jtmb02's work for example. Others have weird effects like the title screen being zoomed but the game itself not.

I'm NOT changing my screen resolution for flash game, but I did think maybe I should ask if there is something else I'm missing- you know, if there is some obvious answer besides blaming the game designers for not knowing how to make their vector based flash games scale...
So:

1. am I missing something?
2. do you all seriously run 800x600 or what?


Since you mentioned bugs in the screen, you shouldn't use the multiple montiter feature until the resolution is set.
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