The title says it all. This happens if I make the leftmost guy a specialist in a certain game part. The text of the guy’s name and its specialization blocks the Boost ability.
Either I have to move my screen for the text to go, or I have to resize my desktop to 1600x1200 in order to have the Boost function to work.
Off topic: Nice to have Balrog from Cave Story, the prime indie game I played when it came out. It was amazing, a very nice touch.
1280x1024 is the old CRT/LCD funny shaped square monitor. 4:3.
Our minimum supported resolution is 1024x768 but higher is recommended and the 16:10 or 16:9 Ratios of modern monitors.
Some info on Aspect Ratio’s
Until about 2003, most computer monitors had a 4:3 aspect ratio and some had 5:4.
Between 2003 and 2006, monitors with 16:9 and mostly 16:10 (8:5) aspect ratios became commonly available, first in laptops and later also in standalone monitors. Reasons for this transition was productive uses for such monitors, i.e. besides widescreen computer game play and movie viewing, are the word processor display of two standard letter pages side by side, as well as CAD displays of large-size drawings and CAD application menus at the same time.
In 2008 16:10 became the most common sold aspect ratio for LCD monitors and the same year 16:10 was the mainstream standard for laptops and notebooks.
In 2010 the computer industry started to move over from 16:10 to 16:9.
In 2011 non-widescreen displays with 4:3 aspect ratios were only being manufactured in small quantities. According to Samsung this was because the “Demand for the old ‘Square monitors’ has decreased rapidly over the last couple of years,” and “I predict that by the end of 2011, production on all 4:3 or similar panels will be halted due to a lack of demand.”
I know that I have a very old CRT monitor, I’ll have a new LCD one soon. It’s just that the game’s engine should be tuned to support 4:3 (or 5:4) aspect ratios as well. Of course there are less and less people who are playing at this kind of resolution but still there are some.
Yes, ideally Game Dev Tycoon would have resolution support, Unfortunately it doesn’t. Gratz on getting a new monitor though!