How to reset resolution

[MotelHighway15]

I've just installed AA and I accidentally selected selected a resolution that is too high for my monitor. How can I reset the resolution to its default? I already tried uninstalling and reinstalling but the resolution was preserved.

[Jip]

Search for your user.cfg, open it with a plain text program (not word or open office) and edit the line

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FIRST_USE 0

to

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FIRST_USE 1

In windows you will find it in C:\Users\<your user>\AppData\Roaming\Armagetron Advanced
Sry, idk where to find it in Linux or Mac.
You can also delete the file but that would delete all other configurations you have done, too.

[Phytotron]

Sry, idk where to find it in...Mac.

~/Library/Application Support/Armagetron Advanced/var

~ is your "home" folder


But, why don't you just go into the system setup and manually set the resolution to match your monitor?

System Setup/Display Settings/Screen Mode

'Screen Resolution' can even be set to 'Desktop', which presumably automatically matches whatever your default screen resolution is. (Mac version, anyway; I don't know if there's any difference between OSes.)

'Window Size' refers to playing in windowed mode (i.e., not full screen).

[Z-Man]

But, why don't you just go into the system setup and manually set the resolution to match your monitor?

Because he set the resolution too high and can't see what he's doing in the menus. A black screen or 'signal not supported' error message is all you get in those situations. Or an exploding monitor.

To avoid mistakes like that in the future, try to set up your monitor properly in the OS. AA and most other games won't let you select a screen resolution that the OS knows is unsupported. Doing so would also retroactively get you out of the sticky situation you're in now, AA performs the check on every run.

What also may be helpful: start Armagetron in windowed mode; that can only be done over the command line by adding the switch -w. Or pressing the fullscreen toggle key when the game is already started; depending on the version of AA you first used, that's either F or N. The first key is swallowed by the title screen, so you may have to press it twice.