Screen is off center

[dodgethesnail]

Whenever I run my game, everything looks squished and pushed over to the left side of the screen. I tried to take a screenshot, but when I copy the screen and paste it somewhere, it looks perfectly fine.

It is similar to the problem this guy was having long ago:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=24892.0

The solution to adjust the monitor settings doesnt seem to make sense because other 320x200 AGS games adjust to my monitor just fine. Why is it that only my game is having trouble adjusting?

[Gilbert]

The solution to adjust the monitor settings doesnt seem to make sense because other 320x200 AGS games adjust to my monitor just fine. Why is it that only my game is having trouble adjusting?

Why don't you try messing with the settings first?
Note that monitors use different settings for dofferent graphics modes (even if there're just slightly difference, for example, 320x200 and 320x240 are two differnet modes, using the same resolution in different refresh rates are counted as different, too).

[Khris]

320x200 is not the same as 320x240.

[dodgethesnail]

ok ok, i adjusted the screen at it looks okay now. sorry for wasting forum space about it.

however... the very top of the screen is still a little warped for some reason. It looks sort of like this:

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The top portion bulges out slightly, but I can't seem to fix it with any setting on my monitor. would there be a magical way to fix that somehow, or do you think my monitor is just messed up?

[Gilbert]

Depends on moniter models, some monitors have "shapes" settings, like setting side curves, etc.
If there's no such settings you don't have much choice, you may try to move the screen a bit downwards to see if that helps though.

Or, try setting up your game to run at 640x400/640x480.

[dodgethesnail]

i couldnt fix it with the monitor. i just decided to run it in a letterbox. it looks just fine now. thanks.