Issues running TDM on a tablet

[brethren]

Hey - picked up a Surface Pro recently, and was looking forward to running TDM on it. The problem is, when I fire it up, I'm only getting the upper left section of the the game screen. Any ideas what might cause this? It's running on Windows 8.1, and has an i5 processor and 4 GB of memory.

 

[AluminumHaste]

Change the resolution in game to the native res of the tablet.

[brethren]

It's tough to get to the settings with the screen as is - is there a way to change the resolution by way of cfg or ini files?

[AluminumHaste]

Open up darkmod.cfg

 

Since you have a keyboard, open up the console and type the following:

 

 

set r_customheight "xxxx"

set r_customwidth "xxxx"

set r_mode "-1"

vid_restart

[AluminumHaste]

Did you copy the darkmod folder from your computer onto this tablet? Or was this a new install?

[brethren]

Hmmm, no matter what res I use, the screen looks the same (as above). My desktop resolution is 1920x1080. This was a fresh/new install, btw.

 

Other games have worked OK, although I've only tried a few. Grabbing the Hexen demo now to try out another id tech 4 game.

Edited March 26, 2014 by brethren

[demagogue]

I've seen this exact problem before, but it was probably back in 2009 and I don't even remember what the system was or if I was even ever able to fix it. I don't think so, and that's probably why I don't remember. At some point I just got a new laptop and played it on that ever since.

[SteveL]

There are two suggested fixes for another game in this thread. I can't test whether they work with TDM as I don't have a tablet, but might be worth a shot:

http://us.battle.net...pic/10160426196

One is to change the surface's default 150% dpi to 100%, the other is to switch off the full screen setting which apparently still results in full display).

[brethren]

Thanks SteveL, changing the dpi to 125% did the trick. All works nicely now, I'm getting 25-40 fps on St. Lucia's, extremely playable. Portable TDM!

[SteveL]

Cool! That just might be enough to make me stick with Microsoft when I finally get a tablet :-D