resolution order
- Thread starter Davros
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As far as I know there is no guaranteed order in which the API reports the resolutions. It could be that the 1440x900 resolution is a custom resolution, added later, and as such not in a logical order.
I always run my own sorting routine over the resolutions before displaying them, to catch this problem.
I always run my own sorting routine over the resolutions before displaying them, to catch this problem.
I didn't say YOU added it later, just that the resolution may have been added later, because of a custom .inf file or something.
Yup. In my experience resolutions can come in any order. Often they are semi-ordered, but occasionally there are some resolutions that seem quite unordered. Ordering of resolutions is quite subjective anyway. Placing 1152x864 before 1280x720 in that list makes sense if you consider width first, then height. But if you consider total pixels 1152x864 is the larger resolution. The most user friendly ordering would probably be to sort by aspect ratio, with those matching that of the monitor first.
not in my experience, they are either in the correct order (width then height) or like in the screenshot
@IST Streets of Moscow
I meant that it can come in any order for a given machine. So for games that don't do their own sorting, it'll whatever order the system likes. For your machine, the above would be it. It doesn't change from run to run though AFAIK. It could change with a new driver, new monitor, new monitor driver, custom resolutions added or any other such factor though. If the supported resolutions ever changed from the time you installed the OS chances are the list would be unordered, or semi-ordered.
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