Screen.currentResolution.width returns wrong value?

Unity Engine
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The description for Screen.currentResolution says, “if the player is running in window mode, this returns the current resolution of the desktop.”

So my code reads:

deskW = Screen.currentResolution.width;
deskH = Screen.currentResolution.height;

But it’s returning values of 640 and 480, which is 4:3, yet my desktop is set to 1680x1050 (16:10).

640x480 is, of course, the first resolution the monitor is capable of supporting. Thinking it might have been reporting the closest possible desktop to the current Screen.width (?), I tried scaling the Unity window around - yet even if my Screen.width climbs above the next highest resolution my monitor supports, deskW and deskH still return 640x480.

As a newbie I know I’m just missing something here…please help me out if you see my mistake.

Any help is much appreciated~!

bOB

2

I guess if you are running in the editor it will always output that screen res.

I could be wrong though

Ray

3

yellowlabrador, Is correct: The only resolution Unity runs in or “sees” while in the editor is 640x480.

Also note, that while running in the editor, the only resolution contained within Screen.resolutions is “640x480”

4

Got it. Thanks for clearing that up. I’ll have to display it on screen at runtime until I’ve ensured I’m using it correctly. Or can you recommend a better way?

BTW, does anyone know if there’s a reason for this behavior, or is it just one of those “it can’t work that way” type of things you just have to learn by experience? I’d love a logical explanation if there is one - some sense of closure for the time I spent chasing this. :wink:

Also, is that documented somewhere that I missed?

A nice place would be in the manual under Scripting>Runtime Classes>Screen: static var currentResolution.:idea:

Something like, “Please Note: when running in the editor Screen.currentResolution will only return 640 x 480 @60 hertz.”

Thanks again~!

bOB

5

and still more than a year on it took this post to clear this up for me… its not the most intuitive result if you try and log out currentResolution and receive the wrong value???

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Just out of curiosity, try running in editor, but full screen mode and see what you get.