Default Resolution. Cannot save options, no OK and CANCEL

EDIT: RESOLVED

- I had Windows zoom set to 150%. I set it back to 100% and DCSw is resolution is fine now

Hi pilots

Been away a few years. I have KA-50 and UH-1H.

I cannot see the OK and CANCEL button on options.

It is defaulted to 1280x768 and seems to be truncating the lower portion on my 1920x1080 screen. I cannot change the default resolution and save it from in settings options screen.

The truncated lower portion happens in sim/game and in starting menus.

I have searched for about an hour here, tried a few things, most people just suggest to delete the "..../user/saved games/DCS/options.lua" and restart the game to fix this type of thing.

Problem is.... I have no "..../user/saved games/DCS/options.lua" file create yet because I cannot save any option changes, so there is no file yet to delete.

It is a vanilla install. I installed DCS 2 from the website, and also 1.2.4 which self updated to 1.54. Newly formatted Windows 7 x64 Ultimate.

Same problem exists in DCS 2.0 and 1.54

I tried with another 1680x1050 spare monitor and set the Windows resolution to its own native 1680x1050 - similar issue. OK and CANCEL are off the bottom of the screen.

I tried my other monitor set to 1280x1024 resolution in Windows, but the menu interface goes much too huge to navigate it at all. I can only see about a 2/3 of the menu.

It's been quite frustrating.

Some screen shots included when my monitor is set to 1920x1080 in Windows & game is default settings. Pics have been reduced in scale.

Thanks for any help.

Look in C/users/you/savedgames/DCS/Config/options.lua

edit the options lua in notepad++ and manually input the screensize required in the lua

lines 55 and 67

	["graphics"] = {
	["DOF"] = 0,
	["HDR"] = 0,
	["LensEffects"] = 0,
	["MSAA"] = 3,
	["OculusRift"] = true,
	["anisotropy"] = 2,
	["aspect"] = 1.7777777777778,
	["civTraffic"] = "low",
	["clouds"] = 1,
	["clutterMaxDistance"] = 1500,
	["disableAero"] = false,
	["effects"] = 3,
	["flatTerrainShadows"] = 0,
	["fullScreen"] = true,
	["heatBlr"] = 1,
	["height"] = 1080,
	["lights"] = 2,
	["multiMonitorSetup"] = "1camera",
	["preloadRadius"] = 29116,
	["shadowTree"] = false,
	["shadows"] = 0,
	["sync"] = true,
	["terrainTextures"] = "max",
	["textures"] = 2,
	["treesVisibility"] = 4749,
	["visibRange"] = "Medium",
	["water"] = 0,
	["width"] = 1920,
},

Thanks Cibit

The problem is though.... my C:\Users\TREX\Saved Games\DCS\Config folder is empty because I have been unable to create any changes to the default settings so my game has not been able to create an initial options.lua file that I can edit. I'm stuck in a catch-22. I cannot make changes and save them so it will not create a options.lua file that I can hijack and over-ride.

The code you posted may work, but it is not the entire content of the options.lua file so i still need the beginning and end headers of this file, otherwise my game crashes when I load it using just the snippet you pasted in a file I create myself. I'm using notepad2

Is there anyway to have a code block that just includes the changes I need to make to get the buttons to appear so I can get things moving.

screen height / screen width / aspect ratio

Also I need the beginning and end code to make the file complete. Remember - I don't have a template to start with.

So I managed to create my "own" options.lua file from a template file I found in C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\MissionEditor\data\scripts

I stripped out the redundant options data, so I could just input my own values for width/height/aspect ratio.

I used

	["graphics"] = {

	["aspect"] = 1.777778,

	["height"] = 720,

	["width"] = 1280,

},

This was the only thing I could get to work so that I could manage to see the top few pixels of the OK and CANCEL buttons. I went back into the menu of the game, changed it to 1920x1080 /16:9 and the game restarted of course, but it it now only shows about half the screen now.

[see screenshot]

I'm using HDMI from a nVidia GTX680. Not had problems like this before with other software.

I had this going okay a while back okay using dcs 1.2.4 in 1080p.

edit: added attachments (current options.lua attached producing oversized screen)

options.lua

Have you tried a repair install?

Have you tried a repair install?

While that might work, though a repair will not affect any files in the Saved Games folder. I would seriously consider a complete reinstall. If a clean DCS install cannot write to the default Saved Games folder, which is what this is sounding like, then I would suspect a possible virus. I guess a severe Windows fault could also cause this but I have never heard of such a thing.

I guess, on rereading the thread, I would also check the default windows display settings to make sure that they match the connected monitor.

I also came up against this problem when my 32" whqd monitor died and I had to use an old 24" hdpe while it was getting fixed. For me renaming the options.lua worked to reset defaults, but it felt a bit like using a sledge hammer to crack an egg. If the ok and/or cancel buttons were relocated to the top left of screen it would be much easier to fix a resolution mismatch.

Set your Windows res. to the same as the res. ni DCS.

Then you can change the res. in DCS to what you want save it and exit DCS.

Now set the new res. in Windows.

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Hi Guys

I managed to fix it myself.

@cichlidfan

I updated my nvidia drivers from 364.51 to 375.57 & rebooted.

Also I uninstalled DCSw 2 and DCSw 1.5.4 and re-installed DCSw 1.5.4 directly from website.

A 12GB dl and a few hours later it re-installed .

Exactly same issue...

Could not access the OK / CANCEL button (hidden off the bottom of screen)

C:\Users\myprofile\Saved Games\DCS\Config folder completely empty, no file I can edit.

virus - I just re-installed Windows a couple days ago, not installed anything else at this stage except Adobe Reader and Antivirus.

I think DCS can write to the SAved Data folder: I was able to create an option.lua file in Saved Data folder & using 1280x720 made the very top of the OK / CANCEL buttons available and I could make changes and they were saved.

I also tried using Windows resolution set to 1280x768 (the same as in DCSw default), the game loads, but is double in size and can only see half the top left of the interface

@Rangi

No options.lua file exists in my saved games folder, so cannot rename it :)

@Sigma1958

I changed Windows resolution to 1280 x 768 same as in DCSw default, game loads and is double in size and can only see half the top left of the interface

This got me motivated to think it was something else that I was thinking about as I woke up earlier today in bed.....

I have my Windows set to zoom at 150%. I do this so I can see Windows properly on my 42" TV from my couch. My PC is my media centre, TV tuner / PVR, browser and game centre - all from the one PC. It's much more comfortable to use when Windows is set to 150% size when sitting a few feet back.

So I have Windows set to zoom 150% - this doesn't affect other software or games in full screen mode. But I tried and changed Windows zoom back to 100% and then everything worked properly in DCSw. I've never seen other software be affected by Windows set at 150% zoom.

Thanks guys for trying to help. It's good to try different things to rule out potential issues and eventually narrow down the problem.

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Good tip dude:thumbup:

Still with a problem:

Although @JasonJ's solution solved my DCS problem, and allowed me to chose my options and OK button.

If I chose the "big" option at Windows (image below), my DCS screen options go outside the monitor again.

Even with my correct resolution already set at DCS (1920x1080).

Any suggestions, besides using the "medium" size?

Well it seems solved now, but meanwhile what a mess-up path it is to get it right ....... what a ******* boring process.

After re-installing DCS World again (wasn't updating at all), before entering the sim:

- change the Windows screen resolution, (at desktop, right mouse button);

- increase or decrese text / other icons size to 100%;

- re-start system;

(I had it at 150%... causing the OK button at DCS Options Menu to be outside my monitor);

(On my system Alt + Enter or Ctrl Alt Del do not work in DCS);

- at DCS options chose your correct screen resolution;

- at your savedgames / DCS folder, delete "metashaders2" and "fxo" folders;

- get on DCS again to see if everything is right.

Sometimes at the DCS in game menu, the mouse was not looking right at where the cursor was either... get to Windows > delete the mentioned folders again > back and forth.

(Even got to mess with option.lua without being needed... tiresome indeed.)

Hope it helps.

Nope... it doesn't accept the Windows desktop 150 % icons / text size, again.

Installed an SSD yesterday, and DCS today, and the problem returns:

In the above mentioned conditions (windows 7), the DCS Options Menu go outside the monitor...

Erase the "fxo" and "metashaders2" again, but no avail.