[BUG] Multiple Monitor Resolution Detection, plus others

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First Bug:

Prior to start up the game pops up a window saying

"Your desktop resolution is  currently set to 1280 X 720. The minimum supported resolution for Elemental: War of Magic is 1024 x 768..."

The bug being that 1280 x 720 is the resolution of my third monitor,  the other two are both 1920 x 1080, so I assume it's either checking them all and complaining about the lowest, or for some reason only checking the third monitor.

After Clicking OK the game runs fine.

Second Bug:

When you select enemy units you can see their move destinations. 

Third Bug: (Which admittedly you already know about)

Factions can spawn Very close together, not just AI ones, I started a game with an AI one turns move distance away, which leads me to...
 
Bug\Observation: 

Having Sovereign's automatically moved out of cities after they have been constructed is a terrible idea. Whilst following an AI Sovereign I moved to where he was standing and in the same turn he built a city, meaning he was moved to an adjacent square and I conquered the city without trying.

Additionally I feel it would probably have been helpful to inform people to play as a Kingdom for their first game, what with the Empire buildings having next to no descriptive text.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Is the third set as your primary in windows and/or the one you ran the game from?

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

No, the primary (according to both Windows and the Nvidia Control Panel) is one of the 1920x1080's, and is also the monitor from which I ran the game.

Though having thought about and investigated it further, I have a Geforce GTX 295, and to get it to support 3 monitors you have to disable SLI, which makes it count as 2 GPU's, and the 3rd monitor is detected (in the Nvidia control panel) as being the sole connection to one of them, so It maybe that it's only questioning the one GPU

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Yeah, if that half is counted as the primary adapter that's probably it. Your debug.err file should tell how they're being detected.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

OK, according to the debug.err file the display devices are detected in the order set by Windows, ie the 1280x720 monitor is listed as Display device 3.

I also did a few tests by changing the resolution on my other monitors and it pops up an error message for each monitor that is set below 1024x768.

So after all that I think it's correctly detecting the resolution of all three monitors and simply complaining about the ones that don't meet the standards.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

I'm getting the same error, but I'm only using 2 displays. Second display is the lower one.