My Menu Screens are Truncated!

[Geezer57]

My hardware:
Dual-core AMD cpu, 2 gb of RAM, Radeon 850xt PCIe video card, running Omega 2.6.53 drivers. This combination has run MTW-VI and many mods happily for years.

Sometime in the last few months, the game menu screens started having the lower 1/3 truncated, hiding numerous game choices, with no option to scroll to the lower portion. This hasn't bothered me much so far, as I've been playing out existing campaigns and all I need to do is load the top saved game.

But now I'm wanting to start a new campaign, and the faction choices are hidden. Saving games is another example, after hitting ESC and navigating to the load/save screen, the "save game" option is hidden just below the bottom of the screen. I can usually get it in a couple of tries by positioning the cursor at the bottom and then moving the mouse down slightly. Neverthelss, it still aggravating. But choosing factions is almost impossible, taking twenty minutes of trial and error guessing where the faction choices are hiding below the visible screen.

Anyone encountered anything like this before? Changing screen resolutions, either in game or on the desktop, makes absolutely no difference in the menu screen.

[drone]

Just to clarify, is the bottom third missing/blacked out on the screen itself, or does it look like the overall scene is bigger and the missing options are off the monitor?

[Geezer57]

Just to clarify, is the bottom third missing/blacked out on the screen itself, or does it look like the overall scene is bigger and the missing options are off the monitor?

The menu screen is larger than what the monitor will display, with the missing options off the lower edge of the monitor.

By the way, I'm running Windows XP Pro w/ SP3, if that helps.

[drone]

Weird. Are you running with an LCD or CRT monitor? If LCD, what's the native resolution and what game resolutions are you running? And do you have other programs running at the same time (browser, email client, etc.)?

[Geezer57]

It's a big CRT, capable of 1800 x 1440 pixels resolution. I have the game settings at 1600 x 1200, so well within the capabilities of the monitor. Once I get into the game, the resolutions work fine as they're set.

The menu screens, which are no where near that high of a resolution, are the ones overflowing the bottom of the monitor screen.

I have a 24" LCD I've been meaning to hook up, but it's resolution is only 1920 x 1200, so the vertical screen size is slightly smaller than the CRT I'm using.

[drone]

It might be a problem with either your monitor or video card. Have you tried changing your desktop resolution to whatever the menu screens use (640x480?)?