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[Jintor]

Uh, this is with the Versions I download from Mayday's page, specifically V11, his latest release.

I can't take screenshots of the fullscreen mode because of... whatever it is that prevents me doing so, but when I enter into fullscreen mode, the init 80:60 default means that DF appears in an extremely squished rectangle in the top left of my screen.

If I change it back into 80:25, it reappears as a slightly less squashed rectangle in the middle of my screen. Before, on V10, it would appear as a good large size, but now it's really quite disconcerting.

In any case, changing the second value of the 80:25 seems to move it up and down the screen instead of... I thought it increased the resolution, or something?

Also, if I window mode it, DF still takes up my entire screen - just as a window. Before it used to collapse all that black space.

I'm not sure what's happened, I tried to edit the init files of V11 to match V10's init files, but it doesn't seem to have done anything (resolution wise)

[Anfold]

Copy and paste all the display options from init.txt My guess is that you upped the screen size w/out upping the grid size.

[Jintor]

Uh, I did that, and now while the sound is there, DF has dissappeared from sight entirely...

Luckily I can still here that it's there, so I can cancel out of it, but now it's just gone. : /

/EDIT Oh, i copypasta'd the init settings but mayday renamed the tilesets. One second.

Ok, graphics are back, but while my window is now perfectly square and whatnot the huge problem is still remaining. And DF is still a squished rectangle in the middle of my screen.

[Anfold]

wow, I wish I were psychic enough to know that you were using mayday.   I meant, copy paste into the forum, and use spoiler tags to save space

[Jintor]

I said I was using Mayday in the first sentence. No need to get snarky.

Anyway...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Change this to turn sound off.

[SOUND:ON]

The sound volume runs from 0 (off) to 255 (full).  You can set the volume from the ESC options menu as well.

[VOLUME:255]

Change this to skip the wonderful intro movies.

[INTRO:ON]

This lets you set the starting windowed/fullscreen setting.  Can be YES, NO or PROMPT.

[WINDOWED:NO]

This is the dimensions in tiles of the display grid.  Minimum x is 80.  Minimum y is 25.  Maximums are 200.  Make sure the window size or full screen resolution matches the grid/tile size if you don't want the display to be squashed or stretched.  The default windowed font has tiles that are 8x12 pixels, for instance, so for a 80x25 grid, you use a 640x300 window, and for a 125x50 grid, you'd use a 1000x600 window.

[GRID:80:25]

This is the size and font for windowed mode.  Changing to 800x600 and the 800x600 font might make you happier.

[WINDOWEDX:640]
[WINDOWEDY:300]
[FONT:mayday.bmp]

Full screen info.

[FULLSCREENX:800]
[FULLSCREENY:600]
[FULLFONT:mayday.bmp]

If this is set to YES, the tiles will not be stretched, but rather the game view will be centralized, surrounded by black space.  Tiles that are too large will always be compressed rather than running off the screen.

[BLACK_SPACE:YES]

Graphics info, most of it as above.  Set GRAPHICS to YES to turn it all on.  This will use the "raw/graphics" folder for tile information.  Currently this is limited to whatever creature graphics you have downloaded.  The game comes with a few pictures to demonstrate.  As of August 2008, the Dwarf Fortress Wiki has graphical tilesets available at http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/List_of_user_graphics_sets.

[GRAPHICS:YES]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDX:1280]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDY:1024]
[GRAPHICS_FONT:mayday.bmp]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENX:1280]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENY:1024]
[GRAPHICS_FULLFONT:mayday.bmp]
[GRAPHICS_BLACK_SPACE:YES]

Change this to YES to keep the DF window on top of your other windows.

[TOPMOST:NO]

Change this to YES if you want to see an FPS counter at the top left.

[FPS:NO]

Use this to set the maximum frame rate during play.  The movies are always capped at 100.  A frame in this case is not graphical but related to the movement speed of a creature.  A healthy, unencumbered dwarven peasant takes one step every 10 frames.

[FPS_CAP:100]

Use this to set the maximum graphical frame refresh rate during play.

[G_FPS_CAP:50]

This sets the applications vertical synchronization behavior.  Changing this to ON can impact your FPS if your G_FPS is high.  The other options are ON and DEFAULT.  DEFAULT uses whatever settings you have your system at in general.

[VSYNC:OFF]

Change this to LINEAR if you want the texture values to be averaged over the adjacent pixels.

[TEXTURE_PARAM:NEAREST]

Is that everything?

[Anfold]

try turning off blackspace in full screen under graphics.  If that doesn't work, just play in windowed mode.

As for screen shots, just use print screen and then paste into paint.  Crop out the borders and there you go.

I said I was using Mayday in the first sentence. No need to get snarky.

I am anti-psychic, I leak knowledge into the brains of others. Unfortunately, teachers just don't understand when you copy your own answers back from the guy sitting next to you. 

[Jintor]

That worked wonderfully! Thankyou.

I don't know what you meant by that last sentance, but I'm going to blithly assume it was awesome.