Video settings in "welcome box"

Post by **Gez** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 19:30

If you've started a recent version of Skulltag, you'll know what I'm talking about. In the window where you normally select the iwad, you can also choose to play in windowed or fullscreen mode, likewise choose between OpenGL and software.

A few miscellaneous options like the gl_clamping_bug cvar could also be set from there.

I would have suggested this on the ZDoom forum if I weren't mostly interested by the "software or GL" one (which would be completely irrelevant in ZDoom). The other video settings can be changed in-game, but this one requires quitting and restarting, so it'd be nice to be able to change it just before startup.

Post by **Tormentor667** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 14:44

Seconded, this makes definitely sense

Post by **Enjay** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 14:57

I'm pretty sure that similar requests have been rejected in the past over at Zdoom. The logic being, IIRC, these things are the job of a launcher and Randy didn't want to do launcher-like stuff especially when there are already launcher programs out there that do the job.

Post by **Gez** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 19:51

I wouldn't be surprised if the possibility to chose between "OpenGL" and "Software" has been a feature by Randy.

Launchers are usually more about selecting pwads and stuff like that.

Though, would you say "no" to having a no autoload checkbox in the welcome screen?

Post by **Enjay** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 20:18

Seeing as how I never use the welcome screen, it would be irrelevant to me.

I just want a -noautoload command line option that I could type into ZDL.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 0:49

No chance.