Hi there,

No experience with the Descent games, but was intreagued for some multiplayer fun.

Anyway, I bought and downloaded it, and firstly it seems while loading it goes from 640x480, to my native resolution (1090x1080), then to 640x480 again, then to native, then back to 640x480.

Now I have tried changing the ingame options, and nothing seems to change - Had a look in the Descent files and nothing I can see which allows me to either change it to windowed, or adapt it to my 1920x1080 native.

So, lets pretend i'm 10 years old and have no idea what i'm doing - What do I need to do?

When you start D3, in the LAUNCHER, click the SETUP button. Go through the options. If you are running Win 7, you may have to give Descent 3 WRITE access or it might not save the settings.

Under Setup, select the Misc tab. Under the command line options or whatever, you'll want to enter:

-width 1920 -height 1080 -aspect 1.78

I believe that should do it.

Hi again guys,

While adding that command line in does make the game that ratio for when actually playing, it still keeps going from 640x480 constantly when the game first loads up, and then stays at 640x480 until the game starts.

Also, the sound/music isn't working at all. I do have Windows 7 btw

Thanks for your help so far guys

Go into windows explorer and make user your account has full editing rights on the D3 folder. I think what is happening is that Windows isn't allowing you to modify that folder so any changes you make are reverted back to default when you restart D3.

So just to make sure we're on the same page, it sounds like the game runs correctly, it just goes through 640x480 for the intro video and such. If that's the case, I think the intro and menus and such may be fixed at 640x480, so nothing you can do about that as far as I'm aware. On the sound issue, there are some options in the launcher, DirectSound should be the most basic to try there as opposed to EAX or something.

Another tip, if your monitor takes a few seconds to switch resolutions (which can get annoying), try going to your video card control panel, and set the scaling option to GPU. This keeps your monitor in its native resolution at all times, and your card will upscale any lower resolutions instantly, often with clearer results than monitor scaling.