S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky DX10 issue

[TitusTroy]

I'm having a major issue playing the game using the DX10 renderer...every time I try to play the game using DX10 my mouse pointer is restricted to an invisible box about one third of the screen and I cannot use the entire screen...the entire screen appears, but I can't physically move the mouse down to the far bottom and far right of the screen because there is some kind of barrier

this only happens in DX10...the game runs fine in DX9 mode...but I want to play in DX10!!...I'm using the 1.5.07 patch, Vista 64, Nvidia GTX 260...is there any way to fix this bug?

also how can I tell if the game is running in DX9 or DX10?...when going into Task Manager it only shows 'x-ray-engine' and doesn't say if it is running in DX10 or DX9...is there another way of determining this?

 

[Martimus]

I had this happen to me after changing around settings trying to get better performance. I could not change back any of the settings to fix the issue (I had to use the .ini file, since I couldn't do it in the game menu), as the problem just persisted no matter what settings I put in. I eventually uninstalled, and reinstalled the game, and now it works fine.

 

[TitusTroy]

Originally posted by: Martimus
I had this happen to me after changing around settings trying to get better performance. I could not change back any of the settings to fix the issue (I had to use the .ini file, since I couldn't do it in the game menu), as the problem just persisted no matter what settings I put in. I eventually uninstalled, and reinstalled the game, and now it works fine.

yup that's what's happening with me...I can't reach certain areas of the Menu options as well...I tried un-installing and re-installing the game and the same thing happens...oh well guess I'm stuck using DX9

does anyone know how I can check while playing the game what version of DX is being used?...Task Manager doesn't tell me that...console command maybe? anyone know?

 

[TitusTroy]

I finally figured out a way to get the game working in DX10!!...I had to change my desktop resolution to match (or exceed) whatever in-game resolution the game is set to...so for example if I want to play the game at 1920 x 1440 (DX10), I have to set my desktop resolution to 1920 x 1440

never had to do this with any other game but hey I'm just happy I finally got the game to work under DX10...weird bug but I'm just glad it's now working...even though the game looks fine under DX9, I still wanted the extra graphical options available only under DX10

 

[dust]

Also there's a newer patch available. Give it a try if you haven't already.