Author Topic: Soldat Resizer by Troop v1.0.2 (Read 14635 times)

Troop · « **on:** June 26, 2006, 09:20:12 am »

Soldat Resizer

What does it do?
She resizes your non-fullscreen Soldat to fit your screen! Just swicth Full Screen -option off from Soldat's Config

Why?
To avoid very annoying flickering when you minimize Soldat or alt+tab

Some Instructions:
Run the program, set your settings (most likely press "Get current Resolution" :p), and press OK. Then application will minimize to tray next to your clock. To restore it from the tray, double click it, if you didn't select autoresize, then click tray icon with left mouse button to resize, when you run Soldat. You can also double click on application to minimize it to tray.

That's all for now on.

Feel free to post about suggestion or bugs(which it might have a lot -beware)

Here's a little screen:

If you wanna replace that really crappy icon, feel free to post it here, or pm me.

rainrider · « **Reply #1 on:** June 26, 2006, 09:28:13 am »

Now open your soldat resizer and play any demo instead of joining servers. Yes, it's true..

freestyler · « **Reply #2 on:** June 26, 2006, 09:28:50 am »

rainrider did similiar program few months ago...

KeFear · « **Reply #3 on:** June 26, 2006, 09:35:18 am »

Hmm.. seems nice!

If it's not set to Auto resize Soldat, then it won't work.

I hope it doesn't considered as a hack.

Troop · « **Reply #4 on:** June 26, 2006, 09:36:24 am »

Why would it consider as a hack?

jrgp · « **Reply #5 on:** June 26, 2006, 09:38:08 am »

because I guess it does stuff with soldat, I wouldn't consider it a hack.

btw I think your signature breaks the rules, (too many userbars, max is 3)

ramirez · « **Reply #6 on:** June 26, 2006, 09:57:12 am »

Nice idea. I use 1600x1200 resolution myself, so this means that Soldat has 6.25 more rasterizing work to do when rendering, but my FPS was still 250-300, and 100 with 30 bots in Arena2, so I'll be using this.
However there is one VERY ANNOYING BUG which is why I don't keep this program open all the time in tray. The balloon tip with "Soldat resized to 1200x960" basically pops in EVERY 5 SECONDS even if Soldat is not running. It drives me crazy. Other than that, nice work.

EDIT. Btw if this isn't happening to you, it might be because I have one other application that extensively uses balloon tips. My guess is that the other program is trying to show a balloon tip at the same time yours is showing its, and somehow it's coded so that the balloon isn't "unregistered" by your application. If you could fix it, that'd be great though.

Sotija · « **Reply #7 on:** June 26, 2006, 10:01:21 am »

Nice Troop

.I needed reziser seriosly

Serial K!ller · « **Reply #8 on:** June 26, 2006, 10:17:36 am »

Nice tool! *uses*
And soldat looks better because you don't see the pixels as much.

Troop · « **Reply #9 on:** June 26, 2006, 11:32:36 am »

@jrgp:

Quote

btw I think your signature breaks the rules, (too many userbars, max is 3)

You just hate Halford :<

@rami: Yea, as I said, it might have some bugs, thanks for reporting, i'll see what i can do..

@Sotija: Thanks, there you go

KeYDoN · « **Reply #10 on:** June 27, 2006, 09:57:16 am »

ahahahahahhahaha nice tool, i could play soldat streched over my two screens, really funny xd' but the framerate is unplayable over two screens ;o
how does it work? which language you coded it in?

rainrider · « **Reply #11 on:** June 27, 2006, 11:09:44 am »

Read again my post and do what I wrote ..
[edit] NO COMMENTS

Mistercharles · « **Reply #12 on:** June 27, 2006, 02:42:45 pm »

Set your resolution to 1280x960 (or any multiple of 640x480) to remove slight texture misstretching at the top of the screen. This is cool, cause now I can play full at 200 fps with 20 bots, so long as they don't all have miniguns.

Krillious · « **Reply #13 on:** June 27, 2006, 04:20:18 pm »

Hey this is a very cool program there is a typo in ballon though, it says Soldar esized to etc...

Spyder · « **Reply #14 on:** June 27, 2006, 05:58:07 pm »

I used some other similar program before I formated my computer and it works like the same thing except it used cmd I think.

Anyway, great job on this and I am gonna use this everytime I play Soldat cause my full screen don't work.

EDIT: I am getting an error when it tries to resize my soldat:

Run-time error '13':
Type mismatch

RedNinja · « **Reply #15 on:** June 28, 2006, 01:38:50 am »

Quote from: Spyder on June 27, 2006, 05:58:07 pm

Run-time error '13':
Type mismatch

Same error for me, any solution?

-Vis- · « **Reply #16 on:** June 28, 2006, 05:58:35 am »

I got the same error when I first tried it... I put some random numbers in the 'New Screen Position From Left' and 'New Screen Position From Top' (10 and 10 to be precise), and it worked... although it ran at about 5 frames a second.... :\

Manifold · « **Reply #17 on:** June 28, 2006, 02:40:31 pm »

I get a nice smooth 100FPS now, almost full screen. :] Thanks.

Troop · « **Reply #18 on:** June 28, 2006, 03:02:05 pm »

@Spyder, Redninja and -ViS-: The problem should be now solved and fixed in next version. Keep you eyes open!

Manifold: You're welcome :>

Spyder · « **Reply #19 on:** June 28, 2006, 05:36:53 pm »

Is it updated? or it is still in the process?

Troop · « **Reply #20 on:** June 28, 2006, 05:48:45 pm »

It's still in process, should come around in 3-4 days.

Mistercharles · « **Reply #21 on:** June 29, 2006, 01:02:13 pm »

I found a huge bug troop. Please remove the link.

MofoNofo · « **Reply #22 on:** July 02, 2006, 01:11:16 pm »

Huge bug, seriously, you have to remove it or either PM me or mistercharles.

esko · « **Reply #23 on:** July 02, 2006, 11:41:59 pm »

Quote from: MofoNofo on July 02, 2006, 01:11:16 pm

Huge bug, seriously, you have to remove it or either PM me or mistercharles.

in english, you dont recommend people to load it? why not? is the author aware of the bug? bug-fix coming?

Spyder · « **Reply #24 on:** July 04, 2006, 02:52:32 pm »

What huge bug are you guys talking about?

Anyway, it's been pass 4 days, I am still eagerly waiting for a update ^_^

MofoNofo · « **Reply #25 on:** July 05, 2006, 11:21:58 am »

I was able to play it online..

Krillious · « **Reply #26 on:** July 05, 2006, 12:27:49 pm »

ye me too the first screen looks like windowed mode but when you enter the game it is fullscreen

silver · « **Reply #27 on:** July 05, 2006, 01:29:29 pm »

what do i need to do to work?

Mistercharles · « **Reply #28 on:** July 05, 2006, 01:54:46 pm »

Jeez guys stop exploiting the bug. Troop, please come back and fix it.

Hoodlum · « **Reply #29 on:** July 05, 2006, 02:40:46 pm »

I guess this would kind of help when I play Soldat at my moms house.

Krillious · « **Reply #30 on:** July 05, 2006, 04:07:46 pm »

Quote from: Mistercharles on July 05, 2006, 01:54:46 pm

Jeez guys stop exploiting the bug. Troop, please come back and fix it.

Which bug? Isn't that what the program is meant to do? resize soldat?

MWTBDLTR · « **Reply #31 on:** July 08, 2006, 01:19:49 am »

i must admit while it does work, it is quite buggy. problems i have:

1)The size of the menu when starting is in windowed on the top left, but when you enter a game it works fine

2)The popup from the task mamager is spelled wrong, and it will not stop poping up until i join a game, i cannot close it, that sound drives me crazy.

3)When you exit a game, the last screen from that game stays in the backround since it goes back to windowed style yet stil fullscreen (see #1)

thats pretty much it

Rambo_6 · « **Reply #32 on:** July 08, 2006, 11:10:18 pm »

I get an error when i use this.

Runtime error 13: type mismatch.

Dammit.

EDIT: I almost fixed it... Here's a screen...

One thing i hate about this: That annoying balloon. Can't you just disable it?

-Vis- · « **Reply #33 on:** July 09, 2006, 12:53:50 am »

Ho ho ho... I got it working just fine... yummy. It's great. Now I have to re-learn how to shoot and throw, since I just got used to widescreen -.-

edit:

To get it working:

Run Soldat Resizer.
Set the resolution you desire (I'm using 1024x768 which just fits on my widescreen).
Set the new screen positions to be something greater than 0 (I use 1 and 1 so the top left is in the corner of my screen).
Disable 'Auto Resize Soldat'.
Run Soldat in windowed mode.
Re-enable 'Auto Resize Soldat', then disable it again.
Click on Apply to close the Soldat Resizer window.

This seems to work fine, online and offline.
I haven't encountered any problems, except for soldat staying in 640x480 until you enter a game, and the error you get when the screen position settings are 0 and 0, neither of which are really much of a problem. Hope to see it fixed soon though.

Good job Troop

MofoNofo · « **Reply #34 on:** July 09, 2006, 05:01:01 am »

You cant stretch the menu windows because that's where MM put them, this program just expands the window space. The reason why the game plays in the whole area is directx related and i cant be bothered figuring it out.

Rambo_6 · « **Reply #35 on:** July 14, 2006, 07:32:23 pm »

Ok, i got it all fixed.

That balloon popup thing is still annoying, and misspelled. I'd prefer if it were removed, it's kinda useless.

Otherwise, great job.

GAMEOVER · « **Reply #36 on:** July 14, 2006, 08:18:36 pm »

Well, I can see this really being useful but until you can provide more information about it and fix all the bugs this is completely useless to me. I give you props for this app though now just get it bug free and it will be one of the most useful apps released yet.

-Vis- · « **Reply #37 on:** July 14, 2006, 08:38:11 pm »

Just in case you hadn't thought of it (I'm sure you have, but I wanted to be sure), can you please add a right click menu for the system tray icon, so I can quit/resize without having to bring up the main window.

Thanks

Rambo_6 · « **Reply #38 on:** July 20, 2006, 10:26:22 pm »

Any work done recently? That bubble is hella annoying.

-Vis- · « **Reply #39 on:** July 21, 2006, 05:19:33 am »

If the bubble is annoying, close it?

And if you're talking about when it keeps popping up non-stop, just deselect the Auto resize box, and it shuts up.

The Bone Collector · « **Reply #40 on:** July 21, 2006, 05:48:10 am »

I downloaded this little app, and it really hasn't made any difference to my soldat what so ever....it might be because I have a widescreen....is there any way to fix that?

Mistercharles · « **Reply #41 on:** July 21, 2006, 03:45:10 pm »

^It doesn't make any visible difference. To test it out, press ctrl-esc to open the start menu. If it worked, the start menu should open on top of soldat without flickering the screen.

-Vis- · « **Reply #42 on:** July 21, 2006, 08:54:35 pm »

Erm.. you're running it in windowed mode, right? It resizes your windowed mode Soldat, so you don't have to play in a tiny little box in windowed mode.

Quote from: The Bone Collector on July 21, 2006, 05:48:10 am

I downloaded this little app, and it really hasn't made any difference to my soldat what so ever....it might be because I have a widescreen....is there any way to fix that?

I have widescreen too... and it doesn't matter at all, as long as you're running in Windowed mode.

Quote from: Mistercharles on July 21, 2006, 03:45:10 pm

^It doesn't make any visible difference.

Er... what?

blindbox · « **Reply #43 on:** July 22, 2006, 09:51:06 pm »

I got something to say, if you run this game using the window mode+ change the resolution, IT IS THE SAME AS RUNNING FULL SCREEN. It is not a hack, and it doesn't change your aiming ability, trust me I've seen the difference (the only difference is better graphic i guess).

Relax, it will be the same as running full screen, won't affect the playability of the game. Try it first before you make comments okay?

-Vis- · « **Reply #44 on:** July 22, 2006, 10:49:43 pm »

Quote from: blindbox on July 22, 2006, 09:51:06 pm

I got something to say, if you run this game using the window mode+ change the resolution, IT IS THE SAME AS RUNNING FULL SCREEN. It is not a hack, and it doesn't change your aiming ability, trust me I've seen the difference (the only difference is better graphic i guess).

Relax, it will be the same as running full screen, won't affect the playability of the game. Try it first before you make comments okay?

Who said it was a hack? I don't see anybody saying it's a hack...

And it's not the same as fullscreen. My taskbar stays on top of it, plus, like you said, the graphics look a bit nicer.

Use your brain before making comments okay?

blindbox · « **Reply #45 on:** July 25, 2006, 05:09:53 am »

Quote from: -Vis- on July 22, 2006, 10:49:43 pm

Quote from: blindbox on July 22, 2006, 09:51:06 pm
I got something to say, if you run this game using the window mode+ change the resolution, IT IS THE SAME AS RUNNING FULL SCREEN. It is not a hack, and it doesn't change your aiming ability, trust me I've seen the difference (the only difference is better graphic i guess).

Relax, it will be the same as running full screen, won't affect the playability of the game. Try it first before you make comments okay?

Who said it was a hack? I don't see anybody saying it's a hack...

And it's not the same as fullscreen. My taskbar stays on top of it, plus, like you said, the graphics look a bit nicer.

Use your brain before making comments okay?

Well, they are treating the bug like a hack. Anyway, they seem eager for the bug to be fixed, which does not affect anything at all on aiming ability (check their posts, post 24

).

Rambo_6 · « **Reply #46 on:** July 25, 2006, 09:49:32 am »

Even when i'm in soldat the bubble keeps popping up. I'd rather it never does that....

-Vis- · « **Reply #47 on:** July 25, 2006, 10:12:04 am »

Rambo... do you disable the "auto resize soldat" option after it's resized? Because that's what I do to stop it from popping up all the time. If it's disabled when you start soldat, just click on it twice.

iPod · « **Reply #48 on:** July 26, 2006, 02:50:07 am »

Solution to the runtime error is very simple. Just enter zeros in the 'position from left' and 'position from top' boxes. Troop, a suggestion.. add some sanity checks, that problem was really obvious.

Mistercharles · « **Reply #49 on:** July 26, 2006, 11:44:46 am »

Quote from: blindbox on July 22, 2006, 09:51:06 pm

Relax, it will be the same as running full screen, won't affect the playability of the game. Try it first before you make comments okay?

I did try it, and after doing something (not going to say what, cause I don't want everyone doing it), it extends your view and allows you to see much more than the average soldaten, even farther than a sniper.

I say remove the link.

iPod · « **Reply #50 on:** July 26, 2006, 06:12:30 pm »

It does not extend your view as everything is rendered on the same scale. (Just fits your screen) I did not notice any extended vision while using the resizer. Edit: Ah. You had to do something. Nevermind. But I still have yet to find a way for it to do so

Spyder · « **Reply #51 on:** July 26, 2006, 10:50:47 pm »

can someone send me this program or upload it somewhere? The .rar is corrupted for some reason >_<

FliesLikeABrick · « **Reply #52 on:** July 27, 2006, 06:05:47 am »

I'm removing all download links and locking this thread until Troop contacts me and removes any possible way for this program to be abused.

I've deleted a bunch of replies that detailed how it could be abused.

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Author Topic: Soldat Resizer by Troop v1.0.2 (Read 14635 times)

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