Zoom In. Can it be increased?

[Whitman]

I bought this 1.5 weeks ago. I am still studying the manual, tutorials, and this forum's posts.

Being a long time PBEMer, I am thinking this may be THE FINEST game I have ever encountered. In a short while, I definitely will be looking for some PBEM opponents.

With that said, I have an awesome PC which I keep the res at 1920x1800. The problem is, I cannot zoom in very close. It is hard for me to make out the Depots, Forts, etc.., and all the other great stuff that are in the city graphics. When I put things at the very low res (1280 x whatever), I can see everything when I zoom in, but obviously it does not look as beautiful on 1920x1800 and I cannot ZOOM out as well.

Is there a way I can adjust something to increase my ZOOM IN capability at 1920x1800?

If you cannot adjust this, that is okay.., this game is a winner!!!

[Ranger B]

you might check your control panel settings or your graphics card settings; it may have a scaling option.

[Whitman]

Hi Ranger B.

I have VISTA. I was reviewing the DISPLAY SETTINGS windows and I do not see anything on 'SCALING.'

Can you tell me how to get to the Scaling Option?

Thank you.

[Whitman]

Ranger B., WOW, I never heard of 'scaling'!!! I found it.

I am pretty sure that really helps me to see the little stuff in the cities. I noticed the text sometimes pop outside of boxes.., but in my last 3 minutes of experimentation.., that seems like a great tradeoff. THANKS!

[arsan]

Hi Whitman! Welcome to the forums!

I have never heard about the possibility of increasing the zoom... the game developer can confirm, but i'm pretty sure it isn't possible
Maybe a mouse magnifiying glass tool may help you.
Something like this
http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/
There are several programs that do things like this. I haven't tested the one i linked here, it was just the first to came up in google
Cheers

EDIT It seems you found a better solution!

[Pocus]

You can't zoom past 100% sorry, but I believe Gray_Lensman found a way to zoom further with a tool like the one Arsan speak about.

[Gray_Lensman]

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[Whitman]

Gentlemen, thank you again.

That information on the Mouse having a magnifier feature on the box and assigning that function to the scroll wheel.. I WILL look into that this coming weekend. That sounds great.

PS - I played with the MAGNIFIER that is in VISTA, it only works if you can play in a WINDOWED MODE, which you cannot do with this wonderful game. So that is a "NO GO."

[arsan]

PS - I played with the MAGNIFIER that is in VISTA, it only works if you can play in a WINDOWED MODE, which you cannot do with this wonderful game. So that is a "NO GO."

You should be able to play in a window. Check the AGEOD configuration utility (AGEsettings, where you put your serial number).
I offers several options, some of them with window borders if i'm not mistaken (i don't think I've tested them :bonk
CHeers!

[Pocus]

Confirmed, you can play in windowed mode with the engine.

[gchristie]

see: http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?t=6541&highlight=Mouse+Zoom+function

Never knew about this. So glad this thread was resurrected. One of these babys plus the new bifocals I'm getting should do the trick nicely

[willgamer]

I did a little research and found that, for me, scaling does a good job increasing the magnification.

In my case, I have a 23" monitor with a native resolution of 1920x1200. I found this chart- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution that shows the lower resolutions that keep the same aspect ratio (in my case, 16:10). By setting my desktop to either of the lower resolutions, I get a nice corresponding increase to my magnification at full screen with no "bars".

I dislike changing my deskop resolution to play the game, however, so the problem I have is that the AACW Config tool does not include the lower resolutions needed (1680x1050 or 1280x800) so I can't use it to change the resolution for just this game.

Close but no cigar

[Whitman]

I tried the border mode but the Magnifier did not work with AACW. It just showed a black area. The rest of the windows stuff was magnified, but not AACW.

This weekend if I can find that mouse Gray Lensman referred to, I will give you the scoop on that.

Thanks again.

[arsan]

If everything fails, i have a trick that always works!
Put the screen closer to the face and/or the face closer to the screen

[Whitman]

haha, my nose is way too big for that simple technique. But thank you for the thought.