Installed and cannot get to run on screen

[RogerJNeilson]

The install went fine and the play menu appears, I click 'play game' and this is what I get - screenshot is of whole screen.

Playing on my widescreen Mac in Parallels - umpteen other Matrix/Slitherine games run no problems with this set up. Is there some tweak in the display I need to do please?

[pavelk]

Hi RogerJNeilson,
welcome to our forum!

The game officially runs on Windows only. I am happy that it also started in Parallels but it wasnt tested for that. Every game is based on different engine so the fact that other Matrix games work doesn't guarantee that another ones will work as well.

On the other hand, it seems like the problem is resolution only. If you are able to find file initialSettings.config (on Windows it is always located here C:\ProgramData\Kubat Software\Aggressors Ancient Rome\) there is element called "videoMode". Try to tweak that value per your own screen resolution. Once you have this correctly tweaked (so the main menu is in the middle of the screen) you might also increase the uiScale value.
Let me know if that worked.
It might be even easier if you join our Discord channel and if I am online we can try it together.
Pavel

[RogerJNeilson]

Thank you, some progress has been made. I located the file and opened it in notepad to change the resolution - my monitor has 5120 x 2880 and I wondered if it would accept that - it has and the game is now running in a window on my screen. The two issues I now have are the rather shaky mouse coupled with very small menus and text - is that the UIScale value that needs changing?

Roger

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[n0kn0k]

UI scaling is an option in the settings menu. That will probably work for you.
Interesting to see it can actually boot on a MAC. But it remains a gamble as it hasn't been tested.

[pavelk]

Hi again RogerJNeilson,
I am happy to see that it is working! You should definitely change the UI scaling value. You can do that in the game as well (game settings->graphics->UI scaling). If 200% (the highest value in the options) is not enough, you can try even higher value in the config file itself).
The truth is that the resolution (you run the game at) is really high and that can slow down the GPU processing (and that's maybe the issue with mouse). You can go to mouse options and try to play with values there, it might help.
Let me know how it went please!
Pavel

[RogerJNeilson]

Ok major improvements. I halved the screen resolution and that allowed the game with a few shaky screen blanks to open - mouse still very oversensitive and menus tiny. However with some perseverance I managed to click the game options, selected the resolution and changed it to 2560 x 1440 - 50% of my actual resolution. I then saved this. Reopened the game and the menus now were readable. Mouse still a problem so I pushed the sensitivity way down to 4 and I am now happy with the game and how it runs.

Thank you for all your help.

Roger

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[pavelk]

Hello Roger,
great to hear that you got it working. Have you tried to change the UI scaling in Game settings->Graphics?
There is also one special option which might fix your problems with mouse. Go to Game settings->Mouse and turn on the "Mouse smoothness" option. Let me know if that helped.
I hope you will have fun!
Pavel

[RogerJNeilson]

Yes I have done that with the mouse, happy with it now. Is there any way to set the game so it runs in windowed mode rather than full screen

Roger

[pavelk]

Great!
You can change fullscreen in graphics tab in the game settings.
I am really happy you sorted it out
Pavel

[RogerJNeilson]

Ah yes, just done so, thank you.

Roger