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First post, by Amigaz

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Have troubles changing to higher res than the standard resolution in Blood The Whole Unit
Nothing happens when I change to for example 640*480 or 800*600, using an S3 Virge based card and have tried Univbe and the special univbe patches for S3 based cards but didn't help me 🙁

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Reply 1 of 7, by leileilol

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Try this in blood.cfg:

;ScreenMode
; - Chained - 0
; - Vesa 2.0 - 1
; - Screen Buffered - 2
; - Tseng optimized - 3
; - Paradise optimized - 4
; - S3 optimized - 5
; - RedBlue Stereo - 7
; - Crystal Eyes - 6
;
;ScreenWidth passed to engine
;
;ScreenHeight passed to engine
;
;
ScreenMode = 5
ScreenWidth = 640
ScreenHeight = 480

Note that these 'optimized' modes were only relevant to video cards selling in 1993-1994 so it may or may not work for your card, or it may work but in 320x200 only.

You could also try chained mode 640x480

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Reply 2 of 7, by Amigaz

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leileilol wrote:
Try this in blood.cfg: […]
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Try this in blood.cfg:

;ScreenMode
; - Chained - 0
; - Vesa 2.0 - 1
; - Screen Buffered - 2
; - Tseng optimized - 3
; - Paradise optimized - 4
; - S3 optimized - 5
; - RedBlue Stereo - 7
; - Crystal Eyes - 6
;
;ScreenWidth passed to engine
;
;ScreenHeight passed to engine
;
;
ScreenMode = 5
ScreenWidth = 640
ScreenHeight = 480

Note that these 'optimized' modes were only relevant to video cards selling in 1993-1994 so it may or may not work for your card, or it may work but in 320x200 only.

You could also try chained mode 640x480

Thanks, gonna give it a go when I get home

My retro computer stuff: https://lychee.jjserver.net/#16136303902327

Reply 3 of 7, by Amigaz

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Still doesn't work, nothing happens when I change VIDEO MODE in the game...i'm stuck at 320x256 😜

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Reply 5 of 7, by Amigaz

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5u3 wrote:

Suggestion: Load S3VBE instead of UniVBE.
And maybe the "S3 optimized" setting is broken, did you try screenmodes 0, 1 and 2 as well?

I'm using S3VBE as you suggested before

Yep, tried those modes also

I'm clueless 😕

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Reply 6 of 7, by DosFreak

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What exactly is the problem? Are the game graphics messed up in resolutions other than 320x or does the game not even switch to the higher resolution?

If the game doesn't switch to the higher resolution then it's possible that the .cfg file is set to read-only.

IIRC, there is a shortcut key in game to switch between resolutions. I seem to remember there being a menu option to change the resolution as well.

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Reply 7 of 7, by Amigaz

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DosFreak wrote:

What exactly is the problem? Are the game graphics messed up in resolutions other than 320x or does the game not even switch to the higher resolution?

If the game doesn't switch to the higher resolution then it's possible that the .cfg file is set to read-only.

IIRC, there is a shortcut key in game to switch between resolutions. I seem to remember there being a menu option to change the resolution as well.

It doesn't switch to any higher res.

You can choose default screen res in the game setup and ingame by pressing ESC and then choose VIDEO MODES

since I can "edit blood.cfg" if should be "read only" ?

My retro computer stuff: https://lychee.jjserver.net/#16136303902327