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Resolution does not match Aspect Ratio on Ultrawides

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:49:01 GMT

Hey!

I'm trying to play "New Horizons" and am seeing an issue when Fullscreen is on. I own an ultrawide monitor (32:9 | 5120 x 1440), but was trying to get the game to run at 2560x1440 (16:9). When the game is launched it still stretches the screen out to fill everything. I'm using a NVIDIA GPU, and have also tried to force the aspect ratio that way, but it does not seem to respond to this game. I've also manually edited the start.ini to match my full resolution with no change. I quickly tried to find a way to force aspect ratio, but came up empty. Is there a way to force the game to respect the desired resolutions aspect ratio? I can work around this issue, by forcing the native resolution to 16:9 or by not enabling fullscreen and hiding the taskbar.

Loss of vessel texture

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 07:25:42 GMT

Could you repair the boat's texture?

Peter Blood questline

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:17:26 GMT

so i need to talk to colonel bishop about the slave who is to be sold but cant initiate contact with him ive reloaded the save and still cant ive done everything else even have the arms but still cant talk with bishop

Boarding bugs.

Sat, 15 Jun 2024 16:51:29 GMT

Hi all,

after latest update I`m stuck in enemy captains cabin.

And I have to fight a captain that surrendered. Totally unacceptable.

Rgds, Oldtimer

Weapon equip for officers bugged.

Sat, 25 May 2024 07:52:46 GMT

Hi all,

my officer having no pistol previously refuses to equip a gifted one. He also refuses to equip the La Licorne sword keeping his worthless cutlass instead.

Rgds, Oldtimer

Unarmed assassins.

Sat, 25 May 2024 07:56:51 GMT

Hi all,

Quest assassins in towns walk about unarmed. Their swords appear first when confronting them in the dungeon. A new WAD maybe?

Rgds, Oldtimer

Intro movie opening in window

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 20:18:29 GMT

Hi. Whenever i open the game the intro movie opens in a separate window. Like this. If i set fullscreen to 1, game crashes after startup. I have windows 10.

Port Master disappear in ERAS II

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:25:34 GMT

Hello,

i think i found a bug. In the Cayman pirate settlement there is no Port Master (i am not talking about the shipyard), even though the building is present and you can access normally and with fast travel. That means i can't charter or moor a ship, right? it is an intended feature since pirates don't do that or maybe it is indeed a bug?

I am currently playing as Edward Teach. Thanks in advance for your answer.

Black screen bug

Sat, 24 Feb 2024 17:54:27 GMT

Hello there, i followed the guide to install the maelstrom engine and ERAS 2. I have also installed the required components (directx, codex and vredistributable) and set the shortcuts but i encountered a problem. After i start a new game the game screen is completely black and i can't play. The game is not freezed or crash, in fact i can open the menu and i can even save and load. The save previews shows the game aboard the ship but after i load the game screen is still black. Do i miss something? please help me. Thanks in advance.

World map not connected to islands (POTC / Buccaneers of the Caribe)

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:58:34 GMT

Hi Jeffrey,

I bought your product a few months ago in order to play POTC / Buccaneers of the Caribe.
The game is unplayable due to a fundamental issue with the world map not being connected to islands.
I have posted about this a number of times, the first time being 97 days ago at this point.
Several other, more recent forum questions have been answered in the meanwhile, so I kindly ask you to please take a look
at this. Others have told me to simply play the mods instead, but I am not a fan of them and I specifically
bought this to be able to replay a game that I really liked as a kid.

Thank you for your time.

World map not connected to islands (POTC / Buccaneers of the Caribe)

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 07:48:51 GMT

Hi Jeffrey,

Like some other people on here in the past, I have an issue sailing to islands.

No matter how close I sail to it, it's just open sea, there's never a docking symbol.

Could you please help me with this? I'd love to play this game again, it's a childhood favorite.

Tbank you for your time!

Bottomless...

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:01:48 GMT

Hi all,

Heavy Brig does not have a bottom, when you walk on deck you see water through the grate.

Rgds, Oldtimer

Game freezes.

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 08:22:02 GMT

Hi all,

after updating and starting a new campaign as J Pitt game freezes often when PC is close to corners, walls, leaving tavern quarters. It freezes then in the transition screen. Must leave game by exiting.

Rgds, Oldtimer

gentlemen-of-fortune-lost-ships-city / Text does not adapt to screen resolution

Tue, 08 Aug 2023 16:19:57 GMT

Hello,

I bought maelstrom engine yesterday to play age of pirate 2 in better conditions.

Everything works fine except for the texts that come out of the screen and I can't play in these conditions. The steam version (vanilla) has no problems and adapts correctly to 1920x1080.

Maelstrom engine (The texts are huge and not adaptable) :

Vanilla version (No problem on the steam version, texts don't take up half the screen, and aren't offset). :

I hope there'll be an update as soon as possible.

Loyalty fix

Sun, 25 Jun 2023 18:10:28 GMT

Hi, I'm not sure whether I should write here or in general discussion. In stock CoAS, it says you included loyalty tweak, but it seems that the bug with officers that have Regular Sailor reputation still exists. Their loyalty lowers no matter what you do. I wonder if you could include the loyalty fix for stock Maelstrom CoAS. Also it would be great if you could include the rum managment mod.

I could do this myself, but I'm not sure if any of the code conflicts. If you could point me out it would be great.

No bulwarks.

Mon, 08 May 2023 05:56:02 GMT

Hi all,

Shark ship type lacks bulwarks and breeching. But it has gun ports...

Rgds, Oldtimer

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:13:04 GMT

As of latest update one of two officers present does not participate in a fight. I checked several fights by reloading and he only stands there making menacing gestures. It's always the same officer. Admiral difficulty.

Rgds, Oldtimer

Passenger does not disembark.

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 11:49:40 GMT

Hi all,

got 4 passengers to Portobelo. One stays aboard after I enter the tavern there. And I need the money...

Rgds, Oldtimer

Antigua Dungeon (not cave) ERAS II

Sat, 15 Oct 2022 05:51:48 GMT

Hey.

im having a save breaking bug. one of the Skeletons in the dungeon of Antigua (cant remember the name of the town) is behind a wall so i cant kill it which means im unable to progress or leave the dungeon. i really dont want to lose the save so is there like a cheat or command that can kill the skeleton?

Thanks

Sail clip.

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 14:02:17 GMT

The spanker(?) sail on the Goleta dips into the water.

Rgds, Oldtimer

ERAS2 Blue Bird

Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:06:41 GMT

Another shit that pisses me off... When I board my ship, that is class 3, speed 13 it cannot catch up Blue bird, even though it's going against speed. Fucking impossible mission. It's so frustrating, so you have to fail this mission and what to do next? How I am suppose to get this mission out of list... My navigation is 95

ERAS 2 Antigua Priest Dungeon Mission

Wed, 20 Jul 2022 13:25:22 GMT

I went to dungeon inside city (because priest requires dungeon in my mission) but I cannot find skeletons/evil spirits. Close to morgan house basement I can hear some spooky sounds that's it. Please help

Eras II Mouse Drifting

Mon, 06 Jun 2022 14:58:54 GMT

Just bought the engine after playing GoF years ago on another PC, before the Maelstrom Engine. I installed Eras 2 but I can't play it because the mouse keeps running around the screen so that menus are unusable. Any help?

ERAS II Weird ship accuracy

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 17:29:00 GMT

The ship English Fast Pinnace is very hard to hit and cannon fire go way past it. so it is very tough to sink without manual aiming. ai ship have some difficulty to hit it too. i did a little recording to show what i meant.

8 ship ERAS II

Fri, 24 Sep 2021 22:54:38 GMT

I don't know if it has already been reported but 8 ships in the fleet you do not see the icon on the left so it is impossible to give it orders but you can have it in the fleet can you also put 8 ships in the fleet visible so you can set orders for it?

my resolution is 1920-1080

ERAS 2 Fort Orange Bug ?

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 02:42:12 GMT

hello I wanted to ask if it was possible to fix the Fort Orange bug of the personal lieutenant who collects taxes for you in practice that collects taxes for you in practice in the residence is absent once the location is reloaded it seems to me that it was a bug present in the other AoP versions would be nice if solved by and a small settlement but useful if you could collect your taxes

Discrepancy in sail damage calculations

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 06:48:49 GMT

My goal is to make it possible to repair each fallen mast separately at the shipyard.
At first glance, this is not difficult.
But in practice, it is not possible to correctly calculate the state of the sails (percent) after repair.
=
I make repairs, I count how much damage I removed from sails,
then I go out to the sea and the engine recalculates ANOTHER percentage of sail condition.
=
Is it possible to add the output of the percentage of sails belonging to a particular mast to scripts?
Or fix the engine recording damage to masts and sails so that there are no discrepancies.

Cant' start the game

Fri, 06 Aug 2021 17:11:17 GMT

After several months of play and after the new versions uploaded through itch, the game after showing (or not) for a split of a second the main menu stop working. I reloaded several times the latest or previous versions to no avail. Please help me return to the best pirate game ever. Thanks in advance. (I tried both 32 bit and 64 bit versions with the same response)

ERAS II BUG the city guards not attacking when you attack

Sat, 31 Jul 2021 14:00:17 GMT

as the title says the guards of the city of boddon landing do not react to the attacks but it is strange because starting the game again the guards attack and react normally can it be my rescue is buggy? i also checked the other cities the guards react normally

link of my save
https://www.mediafire.com/file/394d2ua8qwfi2yf/SAVE.rar/file

Problem After latest update

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 02:24:59 GMT

Good evening I don't know why after several months that it worked for me I updated via ITCH and now my game no longer starts no longer from any ERROR screen ...

Starting the game, the classic starting screen of the Melstrom 2.8.4 graphic engine appears followed by a black flash as if the game would like to start but immediately closes without giving any response or error message you know how to solve this problem that I'm going crazy or tried even uninstalling and reinstalling C ++ Visual but to no avail ...

Enemy ships surrender bug

Sat, 31 Jul 2021 18:12:10 GMT

When enemy ships ask me to take some gold to let them go away, i always refused and demanded surrender and they would lower their sails and stay still while i could just navigate to and board them. But now enemy ships will try to escape and will not low their sails after i demand their surrender. Even if i am the first to ask for surrender and they accept, they will try to flee anyway.

Can't access my pack with v196+ engine .

Fri, 21 May 2021 12:24:12 GMT

Hey there . So , as the title says . I can do whatever i want with your mods and quite the opposite with setup of mine . It just won't start or crashes in mm . I hope you can do something with this . And it seems that there's a lot of people suffering from this in previous threads . Thanks in advance .

Engine revisions

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 17:12:58 GMT

Hey!

Version 193

There are jungle bugs, freezes or crashes. And also, there is no grass at all. I had to roll back for now.

After version 183+, such logs often began to appear in error files.

Lost Ships City crash after start a game

Fri, 21 May 2021 20:20:48 GMT

Crash a second after the start of the game, engine version 201, without log. On engine version 177 (14.04.2021) works fine

can't sail on open sea. ERAS 2

Tue, 18 May 2021 00:54:40 GMT

I can sail, but not to any ports and or locations around the island?

only thing i changed was the difficulty setting, set it from impossible down to commodore. but other than that have't done anything out of the ordinary.

One more thing also to add. i tabbed out and the icons disappeared; when i went back into the game. cheers!

issue with launching several games

Sat, 01 May 2021 09:10:56 GMT

cts supermod:

COMPILE ERROR - file: seadogs.c; line: 351

Invalid Expression

COMPILE ERROR - file: seadogs.c; line: 351

Undeclared identifier: GetVersionString

carribean stories:

COMPILE ERROR - file: seadogs.c; line: 349

Invalid Expression

COMPILE ERROR - file: seadogs.c; line: 349

Undeclared identifier: GetVersionString

GOF2.5:

COMPILE ERROR - file: seadogs.c; line: 457

Invalid Expression

COMPILE ERROR - file: seadogs.c; line: 457

Undeclared identifier: GetVersionString

Lost Ships:

COMPILE ERROR - file: seadogs.c; line: 457

Invalid Expression

COMPILE ERROR - file: seadogs.c; line: 457

Undeclared identifier: GetVersionString

Spacebar doubletap in interfaces with latest engine update.

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 15:31:52 GMT

Hello.

It looks like one of the latest engine updates caused a bug.

In interfaces when you write a name for your ship or name your save file if you tap a spacebar once it acts as if you tapped it twice (ERAS II).

If you use engine version 163 - everything is fine. Once I updated to version 167 (missed 164-166) - bug appeared.

I thought at first that it was a keybord problem. But once I got back to using version 163 - bug dissapeared.

This bug isn't critical. Most people wouldn't even notice. But it is there. Just decided to let you know.

ERAS II Peter Blood No Equip Muskets

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 01:21:21 GMT

Hello as per the title I'm playing ERAS II with the character Peter Blood and I ran into a bug where the character of Peter Blood when he tries to equip any musket this is not equipped ... I also tried with Diego and Nicolaas and they equip muskets normally ... only Peter Blood at this problem ...

problem with muskets

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 19:23:42 GMT

Good evening after a nice formatting I managed to start ERAS 2 without problems and I must say that it is really a beautiful MOD and I must congratulate you finally I was able to enjoy this game without the classic vanilla bugs and crashes ...
But I ran into some little bugs like the musket every kind of musket the characters;

Nicolaas Van Hoorn;
Diego Espinoza;
The musket both the normal one and the double-barreled one appear only in the holster of the character not in his hand

I think I have some bugs with corrupt files I also tried to make a repair of the files by downloading the whole package but the problem persists I also tried on Gof 1.2 and even there the bug is identical to ERAS 2

however the musket pressing Q to fire fires quietly as if the weapon

Peter Blood I don't know why you cannot equip practically any type of musket in practice the word "equip" appears but once clicked on it is not equipped in ERAS 2

IN GOF 1.2 I haven't tried but seen the exact same problem with Nicolaas and Diego I thought maybe the same.

Fonts resizing issue

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 19:48:28 GMT

Hello!
I bought Maelstrom engine not too long ago and dig deep into it. And must say that I am really impressed with optimization!
Currently, I am experiencing a quite strange issue with fonts resizing with different resize factors.
Here are fonts without a resize factor.
https://imgur.com/a/QJSfpIc
And here are fonts with resize factor.
https://imgur.com/a/DKcfXgy
As you must see, fonts (especially noticeable on buttons) on the 2nd screenshot are getting squished vertically which shouldn't normally happen.
What can I do to make fonts look like on the 1st screenshot while having GUI resizing like from the 2nd? Or is there an issue in engine itself (which I really hope is not true).
Thanks in advance!

Ship placement bug

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 23:26:59 GMT

Hey, guys

I'm playing ERAS 2 right now as a pirate with a squadron of 8 ship. I went to Le François' store in Martinique to get some goods for the ships, and when i go back to my flagship, 4 of my ships were placed at Fort-de-france's port and got squashed by the town fort. This same issue happen in Puerto Principe. When i go back to the flagship, some ships are placed at Santiago's port and got wrecked by the fort. I can't fast travel there and help them, and if i go back to the map, they are lost forever. But this bug is not isolated to ports, on shores suchs Shores of Batabano in Cuba, ships are placed behind the shore, at Havana's port. I tried changing ship squadron formations on mod options but none of them worked, the ships are still placed at the opposite port. This makes playing pirate more annoying since you, as a pirate, has little options of friendly ports to get provisions for the ships. The only solution i found was to reduce my squad by half by selling 4 ships so the remaining ships dont get wrongly placed at the opposite ports. Did someone happened to get the same problem and got solutions other than reducing your squad? Thanks guys.

No cannon sound

Thu, 24 Dec 2020 21:19:37 GMT

Hello,

I installed the GOF 2.5 mod but I don't get any sound for the cannons. No matter what I do. Tried a bunch of settings diefferently. Starting a new save. But no luck. Everything else is working fine.
Can anybody help me?

Edit: Activated "Logging" and this is what it says. Can anybody help fix this?

Maelstrom Engine™ 2.8.3 (64 bit)
Current dir: C:\Maelstrom\games\gentlemen-of-fortune-25
Loading modules (folder: modules\)...
42 loaded.
Reset...
Initializing CORE...
Creating atoms space: 128
done
Initializing complete
Starting DirectX 9
HARDWARE_VERTEXPROCESSING supported, Type = 1
Techniques: 24 shaders compiled.
Techniques: 234 techniques compiled.
Techniques: compiled by 179646975 ticks.
Using FMOD 00020106
Sound initialized ok !!!
FMOD: Speaker mode STEREO
Total logical: 24, Total cores: 24, Total physical: 1
SSE: On, MultiThreading: On
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\SEA BATTLES_01\splash_05.ogg
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\SEA BATTLES_01\splash_04.ogg
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\SEA BATTLES_01\splash_05.ogg
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\SEA BATTLES_01\splash_05.ogg
Fader::Init() -> Fader already created, fade out phase
Fader::Init() -> Fader already created, fade out phase
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\SHIP\float_boat_02.wav
Bad rope data for rope: (model=ships\PDN1\PDN1) (rope num = 110) (begin group=0, end group=-1)
Begin pointer = 0000000000000000? end pointer = 000000003BCA4048
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\SEA BATTLES_01\splash_05.ogg
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_4
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_4
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\SEA BATTLES_01\splash_05.ogg
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\SEA BATTLES_01\splash_04.ogg
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_4
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_4
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\SEA BATTLES_01\splash_04.ogg
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\SEA BATTLES_01\splash_05.ogg
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\SEA BATTLES_01\splash_05.ogg
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_4
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_4
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\SEA BATTLES_01\splash_04.ogg
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\SEA BATTLES_01\splash_04.ogg
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\cannon_fire_8
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\SEA BATTLES_01\splash_05.ogg
Can't find cache for sound !!!! RESOURCE\sounds\SEA BATTLES_01\splash_04.ogg

Wrong guns on Dutch 1st Rate?

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 16:59:19 GMT

I don't know if this was intentional or not, but seeing as most ships default to their starting weight of cannons when captured, I thought I'd point it out.

The Dutch 1st Rate ship does 42lb/92 guns but the one I captured, came equipped with 92 guns that were only 4 lb.

Historical ERAS II --- ship flag totally white occasionally

Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:45:16 GMT

Pirate Proposition bug

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 19:25:54 GMT

My game crashes every time I try to leave port after accepting Pirate's proposition quest.