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Posted January 20, 2017
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You can choose the resolution in which you want to play the game by manually editing the engine.ini in your City of Abandoned Ships folder with wordpad.

Insert the resolution values into the lines
screen_x and screen_y:

This is what i use, but you may want to edit the values differently:
screen_x = 2560
screen_y = 1440

I heard that there maybe problems with the loading screen, UI, Inventory, because the game has a 4:3 aspect ratio as default. In most cases your screen should look somehow stretched.

This is what seems to fix it:

Go to

Sea Dogs - City of Abandoned Ships\Program\INTERFACE\interface.c

and also edit it with wordpad

search the following line:
showWindow.aspectRatio = (h*4.0)/(w*3.0);

and change it to:
showWindow.aspectRatio = 1.0;

Just in case, backup your files before you change them.

It took me some time to figure it out, so i wanted to share and probably save you some time.
I hope it helps and you enjoy your game even more.
Post edited January 20, 2017 by GrumpyElk
Posted January 23, 2017
Thank you for Resolution fix!

And here is another one for zooming out on sea battles:


First you need to go into Program/SEA_AI/AICameras

Find this code:

SeaFreeCamera.Perspective = 1.285;

// Ship camera paramerets
SeaShipCamera.Perspective = 1.285;

Change to:

SeaFreeCamera.Perspective = 1.885;

// Ship camera paramerets
SeaShipCamera.Perspective = 1.885;
Posted January 25, 2017
Thanks for the tips guys.
Posted March 07, 2017
Hi. I just bought City of Abandoned Ships and I am curious if any of these fixes/tweaks are implemented in the latest Gentlemen of Fortune mod that is uploaded to Bucaneersreef?
Thank you in advance captains,
sePL80
Posted March 10, 2017
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Zeraphine: Thank you for Resolution fix!

And here is another one for zooming out on sea battles:

First you need to go into Program/SEA_AI/AICameras

Find this code:

SeaFreeCamera.Perspective = 1.285;

// Ship camera paramerets
SeaShipCamera.Perspective = 1.285;

Change to:

SeaFreeCamera.Perspective = 1.885;

// Ship camera paramerets
SeaShipCamera.Perspective = 1.885;
Thanks for the zooming out fix at sea!

Do you also know how to change the same thing on land? Since i have a widescreener, my feet and the rooftops are always cutted off and the hero is far to big right in front of me (like my ship was before i had your zoom fix for the sea). To see everything, i always have to move my mouse up and down. I read that it shall have something to do with the Vert- deficiency values in the game files.

Thanks in advance,

angelaasch
Post edited March 15, 2017 by angelaasch
Posted March 23, 2017
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sePL80: Hi. I just bought City of Abandoned Ships and I am curious if any of these fixes/tweaks are implemented in the latest Gentlemen of Fortune mod that is uploaded to Bucaneersreef?
Thank you in advance captains,
sePL80
Sorry. Late response. Havent checked this thread for a while.

To answer your question:
The fix to get a higher resolution is not included in the GMOF mod. At least not when i played it a few month ago. Had to tweak the ini-file to get it working.
Posted March 14, 2018
Is there any way to get the framerate up? The game runs terribly....I was expecting 60 fps since this is an older game, but the framerate hurts my eyes...

Is there a fix for this?
Posted March 16, 2018
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Eraser74: Is there any way to get the framerate up? The game runs terribly....I was expecting 60 fps since this is an older game, but the framerate hurts my eyes...

Is there a fix for this?
This game only runs well on Windows XP / Vista or 7. There is no support or fix for newer OS because it ended already 9 years ago. The GOG version is nothing else than the old game from 2009 without copy protection.
Posted March 16, 2018
Ah to bad....wasted a few bucks, I can´t play this game with this framerate, I really get headaches from it.
Posted March 17, 2018
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Eraser74: Ah to bad....wasted a few bucks, I can´t play this game with this framerate, I really get headaches from it.
On GOG you have 30 days money back garantee.
Posted June 15, 2018
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Eraser74: Is there any way to get the framerate up? The game runs terribly....I was expecting 60 fps since this is an older game, but the framerate hurts my eyes...

Is there a fix for this?
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angelaasch: This game only runs well on Windows XP / Vista or 7. There is no support or fix for newer OS because it ended already 9 years ago. The GOG version is nothing else than the old game from 2009 without copy protection.
I'm on Windows 10 Pro (just for a few games, I use Linux primarily) and Sea Dogs COAS runs 60+ FPS for me. Not trying to be rude, just putting it out there so that if there are others for whom it doesn't work well, maybe we can compare notes and find a common denominator.
Posted December 04, 2018
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Eraser74: Ah to bad....wasted a few bucks, I can´t play this game with this framerate, I really get headaches from it.
I know this may be a late response, but you can run the game in compatibility mode. That is what I have done and it works like a charm.
Posted May 01, 2019
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GrumpyElk: You can choose the resolution in which you want to play the game by manually editing the engine.ini in your City of Abandoned Ships folder with wordpad.

Insert the resolution values into the lines
screen_x and screen_y:

This is what i use, but you may want to edit the values differently:
screen_x = 2560
screen_y = 1440

I heard that there maybe problems with the loading screen, UI, Inventory, because the game has a 4:3 aspect ratio as default. In most cases your screen should look somehow stretched.

This is what seems to fix it:

Go to

Sea Dogs - City of Abandoned Ships\Program\INTERFACE\interface.c

and also edit it with wordpad

search the following line:
showWindow.aspectRatio = (h*4.0)/(w*3.0);

and change it to:
showWindow.aspectRatio = 1.0;

Just in case, backup your files before you change them.

It took me some time to figure it out, so i wanted to share and probably save you some time.
I hope it helps and you enjoy your game even more.
I tried this fix and i was able to change the resolution no problem but im having a hard time with the aspect ratio, so just to clarify i set value "H" to 1.0 and value "W" to 1.0 but it didnt change anything... still stretched, im using 1920 by 1080 so i also tried a 16:9 raito in the corresponding values but also had no luck, lastly i tried just setiing it to 1 without the .0 and that caused it to crash on both carribean tales and coas....should i just delete the "H" and "W" all together and put a single 1 or did i do it wright already?, i understand this post is over a year old but if anyone knows itd be much appreaciated.

thanks in advance and if theres anything else you can think of that may fix the aspect ratio please let me know
Posted May 20, 2019
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Bon_Rurgundy: I tried this fix and i was able to change the resolution no problem but im having a hard time with the aspect ratio, so just to clarify i set value "H" to 1.0 and value "W" to 1.0 but it didnt change anything... still stretched, im using 1920 by 1080 so i also tried a 16:9 raito in the corresponding values but also had no luck, lastly i tried just setiing it to 1 without the .0 and that caused it to crash on both carribean tales and coas....should i just delete the "H" and "W" all together and put a single 1 or did i do it wright already?, i understand this post is over a year old but if anyone knows itd be much appreaciated.

thanks in advance and if theres anything else you can think of that may fix the aspect ratio please let me know
It worked for me when i swapped the line:
showWindow.aspectRatio = (h*4.0)/(w*3.0);

with this one:
showWindow.aspectRatio = 1.0;

No "h" or "w" needed. Delete the whole parenthesis and put the "1.0" instead.
This worked for me at least. Also when i installed it a second time on another computer.
If it doesnt work for you i sadly have no idea what causes the problem.
Posted July 11, 2022
Ahoy,

I would like to ask a little help:
After I installed the game and start a trader campaign my character stands in a port. After that I quit the game and changed the resolution to 1920x1080. The game start without any problem and I loaded the save file as my character stands in the port but now I can't turn left or right with my mouse - or keyboard - as before.
Can somebody know what should I do to fix this problem?

Thanks
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