I know this question has been asked many times before. However, all solutions I have found after over an hour of googling are essentially the same thing. Everyone says that in order to resize a window in XNA you simply add the following lines of code(or some slight variation of these lines of code) to your Initiate() method in the Game1 class:
//A lot of people say that the ApplyChanges() call is not necessary,
//and equally as many say that it is.
graphics.IsFullScreen = false;
graphics.PreferredBackBufferWidth = 800;
graphics.PreferredBackBufferHeight = 600;
graphics.ApplyChanges();
This does not work for me. The code compiles, and runs, but absolutely nothing changes. I've been scouring the documentation for the GraphicsDevice and GraphicsDeviceManager classes, but I have been unable to find any information indicating that I need to do anything other than the above.
I am also fairly sure my graphics card is sufficient(ATI HD 5870), although it appears that the wiki entry on XNA graphics card compatibility has not been updated for a while.
I'm running on Windows 7, with the above graphics card, Visual C# 2010 Express, and the latest version of XNA.
So I'm just hoping that someone can help me find where I am messing up. I will post my entire Game1 class(I renamed it MainApp) below. If anyone would like to see any of the other classes that are called on, ask and I'll post them.
public class MainApp : Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game
{
GraphicsDeviceManager graphics;
SpriteBatch spriteBatch;
Player player;
public MainApp()
{
graphics = new GraphicsDeviceManager(this);
Content.RootDirectory = "Content";
}
protected override void Initialize()
{
player = new Player();
//This does not do ANYTHING
graphics.IsFullScreen = false;
graphics.PreferredBackBufferWidth = 800;
graphics.PreferredBackBufferHeight = 600;
graphics.ApplyChanges();
base.Initialize();
}
protected override void LoadContent()
{
spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(GraphicsDevice);
Vector2 playerPosition = new Vector2(GraphicsDevice.Viewport.TitleSafeArea.X,
GraphicsDevice.Viewport.TitleSafeArea.Y
+ 2*(graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport.TitleSafeArea.Height / 3));
player.Initialize(Content.Load<Texture2D>("basePlayerTexture"),
playerPosition);
}
protected override void UnloadContent()
{
}
protected override void Update(GameTime gameTime)
{
if (GamePad.GetState(PlayerIndex.One).Buttons.Back == ButtonState.Pressed)
this.Exit();
base.Update(gameTime);
}
protected override void Draw(GameTime gameTime)
{
GraphicsDevice.Clear(Color.CornflowerBlue);
spriteBatch.Begin();
player.Draw(spriteBatch);
spriteBatch.End();
base.Draw(gameTime);
}
}
P.S. This is my second day with C#, so if this is due to a really stupid error I apologize for wasting your time.
graphics.IsFullScreen
is false by default. – Brandon Buck