changing FOV don't seem to work properly

[^^artin]

Currently I'm playing the "Perilous Refuge" fan mission. My TDM version is 2.07/32.

I tried to change the FOV by the advanced video settings dialog to an higher/wider value. First it seems to work fine ( also I'm not sure after all). Then I tried to change it even more but nothing happened. The wider FOV only happens if I grap any object in game e.g. a candle holder, but switches back to the default FOV if I drop the object again. Can someone tell why this doesn't work ?

In an older forum post I read of how to change the FOV by editing some INI file but I didn't tried this yet, also since it don't seem to be the common way to do it no more. So I don't know if this would work better.

Could someone help me out please ?

Greetings Martin

My OS is Win7/64

Graphics Card is NVidia GTX 960

 

Edited January 29, 2020 by ^^artin

[AluminumHaste]

I thought this issue was fixed a long time ago.

My problem is that my FOV will go back to the lower value when I pick up an object.

[^^artin]

I also tested to edit the "seta g_fov" value in the "Darkmod.cfg" now, but it behaves the same way then. If I choose any different value then "70" it only just takes effect if I grab any object and it jumps back to default FOV if I drop the object again. So 70 seems to be the default value for FOV because it doesn't happen at this value.

Is this (still) happening to other players too ?

I could possibly try to clean uninstall all game data and then reinstall it again. But I have no idea what else to try

Edited January 29, 2020 by ^^artin

[AluminumHaste]

This was an issue and it went away, I'm not sure what's happened to bring it back.

Can you report it at https://bugs.thedarkmod.com/my_view_page.php

[^^artin]

Today I updated TDM. There was no new version, but it seems like something updated anyway. Also I noticed that I had used the 32bit version all the time. So I tried the "TheDarkModx64.exe" now and the changing of FOV worked faultless then. Then I tried the 32bit exe again and the FOV settings failed again. But when I changed back to the 64bit version again the failure persisted anyway. I needed to update the game once more with the "tdm_update.exe" to make it work again. The updater gave the feedback that one file needed to be updated, so possibly one file was somehow broken by the "procedure".

Strange behaviour but it finally works. ;)

[AluminumHaste]

The updater has a log or what it updates, would have been nice to know what it fixed.

I'm also having this issue with the latest SVN version of the app, I always use the 64bit version and have it. I haven't had much time on the computer with the little ones coming into my life, but I'll try to look at it.

Glad you got it working.