If I recall, the game runs in a 480-line mode (60Hz) and has black bars, just check screenshots. It is not a 400-line mode (70Hz), even if the game uses 400 lines for displaying video.

So actual resolution is 640x480 60 Hz with 4:3 aspect ratio (so pixels are square), and game is letterboxed to have 640x400 active area.

I bet the 480-line mode is tweaked to only 400 active lines to achieve two video pages for page flipping, as VGA does not have enough memory for two 640x480 pages.

So it works just as it's supposed to then. Thanks for clearing that up. 😀

..or they started the game project as 640x400, and later on found compatibility issues and had to default to the 640x480 =)

Possible. The Amiga version / development might also play a factor.

Didn't the Amiga version run at a lower resolution though?

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

Didn't the Amiga version run at a lower resolution though?

Hmm true...

Off-topic slightly, what's a good cycle setting for Syndicate? The GOG release is set to 8000 by default, which I think is anemic, so I bumped it up to 10000. It runs well, but I think it could be a bit faster. I don't want the game to run too fast though. 😜

Does it run too fat with 50000 for example?

Or is there some speed lock built in?

For a high resolution game 8000 and 10000 is quite low. Try 20000 and 30000.

I think you can max your cycles out without problems.

I doubt there is a speed lock. I have found that the mission mode plays fine but the research mode goes much too fast and you wind up completing high-level implants and weapons very quickly.