XWolven

I am downloading the game right now, but the only help that I can offer is to used a windowed mode at the resolution. Do that by adding this to the shortcut target:

/windowed 1280 720

So your shortcut target should look somewhat like:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock Games\Demigod\bin\Demigod.exe" /windowed 1280 720

 

Yes it is a VERY common display mode and I got over a dozen new titles that have it on the PC.  Now on Consoles every game is either 720p or 1080i.  Many people have HD Tvs these days and many are using them as monitors.  Having the 2 main HD resolutions would be nice.  It is also the standard for Widescreen TV.  16:9 ratio

 

But Ill try the other ideas here.. After this happened with Sins of a Solar Empire which is the only other game I've seen that doesnt have that rez, other than very few obscure russian titles.  Now Im talking games out in the last 2 years. If your talking older then that then its true not many OLD games had that resolution.

This game is under the "Games for Windows" brand which means it meets all the standard resolution displays.

Yea I use a 26inch HDTV as my monitor and run every other game I own at 1280x720 and there is no setting for it on this game.  I'm running a gtx280 at 1024x768.... Badass.  If there is any fix let me know, maybe a patch will enable this.

The fact that I can play WoW, COD4, Crysis, CSS, Warhammer, and fallout 3 at 1280x720 but not this just blows my mind.

It especially bugs me because in any other resolutions i have to go in Interlaced mode rather than progressive scan like 720p.  Interlaced only gets max 30fps.  Progressive 60Hz is what you want for up to 60fps.  So Im screwed just cuz nobody thought to put a standard 720p rez.

Hi, just open the file "GAME" (prefs-file) in your demigod directory (my documents/my games/bla bla bla). There you'll find the active resolution and other resolutions (1024,768,60). Just exchange this with the resolution you want to have (1280,720,60) for instance). Last number is Hz which can get quite handy if you TV does make problems at 60 Hz.

Unfortunately changing one of the other resolutions does not result in being able to choose 720p in the ingame options.

yes this is stupid. How hard can it be for a modern game to support modern resolutions?

 

Im playing on an 23inch 1080p monitor but i often play my games in 720p so the interface and text wont get so small on the screen. Now i can put it on lets say 1280x800 but the aspect ratio wont be quite right and in a game with lots of round objects its not very optimal. But comon how hard can it be to enable all common standard resolutions, is there any reason to exclude 720p?

Since the 800x600 resolution got extincted for many years 1024*768 could be expected as minimum available resolution. A resolution of 720 pixel in height is still very uncommon for PC gamers. To verify this just take a look at the Steam hardware survey of may 2012. The following list shows all resolutions that have more than 1% share of the user base and at least 768 pixel in height.

• 1980 x 1080   25.15%
• 1366 x 768     17.11%
• 1280 x 1024   10.78%
• 1680 x 1050   10.25%
• 1440 x 900       7.58%
• 1600 x 900       6.77%
• 1024 x 768       5.51%
• 1280 x 800       4.23%
• 1920 x 1200     3.64%
• 1360 x 768       2.37%

These resolutions sums up to 93,39%. Compared to these here is the same list for 720 pixel:

• 1280 x 720       1.51%

And even this resolution had a growth of 0.63 % since the last survey and therefore would be below 1% some time ago. Even the sum of all users with a resolution below 786 (there are some more with little percent values) will be 2% at maximum. In addition steam users are not high end users but reflect quite good what users have at home.

So supporting 720p was (is) for PC game developers a goody but nothing relevant. This might change if more users will use 720p TV screens but when Demigod was released in 2009 nobody cared about 720p for PC gamers.