Re: [pygame] Which resolutions should a game support?

[Rene Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Could you try the 1.7.1release version?  That one uses a different
version of SDL.


I think it is a bug with his setup, but it would be still good if
there was a work around.

One possible work around is to not use directx.
You could put:

os.environ["SDL_VIDEODRIVER"] = "winddb"
# before pygame.init()
pygame.init()


You could put that in a config file, or pop up a message dialog box to
ask the user.  Or you could create a "Your Game - safe mode" start
menu item which uses that environment variable.


Cheers.




On 2/4/06, David Mikesell <dave_mikesell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 14:22:13 -0800, "Brian Fisher"
> <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > On 2/3/06, Rene Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > SDL changed behaviour for selecting the refresh rate at 1.2.7.
> > > '1.2.7: Try to use higher refresh rate by default in DirectX driver
> > > (thanks Dmitry!)'
> > >
> > Trying to use higher by default sounds like it could cause this
> > specific problem (where if other games use a different approach in
> > picking refresh rate they wouldn't have this problem)
>
> I'm using 1.7.0.   So could this be a bug?
>