Get Screen Resolution (Not Window Resolution)

I am trying to get the screen size from Unity, but all I can set/get is the size of the window, I am looking for the size of the actual screen, not window, anyone know how to do this?

 

http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Screen-currentResolution.html

 

Screen.CurrentResolution

 

I am using this already, I am using this to specify the WINDOW size, I want to get the actual monitor size.

 

You mean the physical size of the screen or the native resolution?

 

the physical size of the screen, in pixels, so for example 1920 x 1080 for a typical 16x9 monitor.

 

Pixels aren't a real world unit

 

I'm going to assume you mean native resolution and this may help you out:
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/16216/how-to-get-native-screen-resolution.html

 

In the end I used ScreenPosition.width/.height, it seems to work quite well.

 

What is ScreenPosition? I can't find any reference to it in the docs.

 

Sorry, its a custom Rect specified at the top of our script, it's a bit messy, but it works.

 

Uhhh... yes they are.

A unit is just a single piece of measurement that can be counted up.

Macaronis are a unit of measurement if I measured my table by macaroni... it'd be stupid, but I COULD do it, in the real world.

My computer screen has actual little pixels in it. I could count them up. I can measure by them. My monitor is native, physical, real world, 2560 LED tri-clusters that make a pixel, wide. And 1600 tall.


As for OP.

You say you want the resolution of the entire computer screen. Even if you're in a window. But you say that you're using 'Screen.currentResolution' for the window size?

http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Screen-currentResolution.html

But that returns the resolution of the entire screen. Just tested... even in window mode it returns 2560x1600 for me... I resize the window, still the same output.

 

@lordofduct this is what I want, I was trying to find the resolution of the screen, NOT the window, so the result would not change when the WINDOW was resized.

 

So, you have the answer to your question?

 

I'm confused.
Why are you using your custom "ScreenPosition" rect instead of Unity's Screen.currentResolution?

 

Because Screen.currentResolution returns the resolution of the Window, not the screen itself, it's just bad terminology on their part, so if the game is not in fullscreen, it will return the incorrect value.

 

If it's doing that on your computer, that's odd.

Cause I tested it on mine. And it returned the current resolution of the screen. I said this earlier.

see:

 

Odd, for me this is returning 1920x1080 and 3840x1080 when I have Surround turned on, the window is still 1920x1080 at the point though.

 

Change the window's size... and I bet the value will still remain the screen resolution.

 

Same result as last time, I am using something slightly different to you.

 

Stop using something slightly different. And use the Screen.currentResolution property.

Of course if you use something different than that, it's going to be something different.

Show me your code, what are you doing that's so different? We can't operate on these ambiguous statements you make.

 

That's the most pedantic argument I've ever heard. And a completely pointless one, obviously technically you're correct but nobody uses pixels as a real world measurement so it's NOT a real world unit of measurement.

 

They don't?

You never heard "my tv is 1080p", or "4k tv's are coming out", or "my phone has a 10 mega-pixel camera".... not real world?

 

Not as a real world unit of measurement, no. e.g. You can't say, my living room is "4 1080p" TV's wide.

 

It's a real world unit of measurement when we're talking about screen resolution though.

 

Yeah, and I don't say my living room is 144 ounces wide either. Nor my monitor's resolution 100 degrees Celsius.

Measurements have context.



Also.. I'm not sure what "4 1080p" would even be. 1080p isn't a unit of measurement, it's a measurment, in pixels. That'd be like saying "4 10 acres" or "4 5 feet". Is that 4 measurements of 1080p in width? See... it's not the 1080p that doesn't make sense there, it's the application of it to width 4 times.

 

Thanks for helping me make my point!

Cheers

 

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yeah, cheers mate



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you do know that celsius and ounces are real world units of measurements right?

 

Use Display class.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Display.html

Display => Monitor
Screen => Window

Example:
Screen.SetResolution(Display.main.systemWidth, Display.main.systemHeight, Screen.fullScreen);

 

FWIW - double check that outside the Editor. Screen stuff sometimes just straight up doesn't work.

 

Found this while trying to solve my own problem: could be similar to this: https://forum.unity.com/threads/screen-width-is-wrong-in-editor-mode.94572/

Screen.width and Screen.height do return Window Resolution when are called from inside the custom Inspector script. (my last post)

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As for the discussion that plagued this topic: pixels are a Unit of measurement:
Pixels, abbreviated as "px", are also a unit of measurement commonly used in graphic and web design, equivalent to roughly 1⁄96 inch (0.26 mm).

The confusion arose because the Author said:
"the physical size of the screen, in pixels"
Makes sense to specify because we are working on a screen representation inside of a Game window, but the physical size of a screen is more commonly represented by inches/centimetres, while pixels can have different size.
Probably should have formed it like:
"The resolution of my physical screen, in pixels".
Still, the first phrasing was only technically wrong, while conveying the point well enough. In contrast, the following comment was completely false. The author was probably thinking that pixels(in monitor/TV) have different size, so they can't be a unit of measurement, but we are not using those pixels to measure length or distance, but a resolution - which in turn represent how detailed of an image the screen can show. Many things are a unit of measurement:

Bogosity: Lenat
The unit of bogosity, i.e. how bogus a person, claim, or proceeding is, derived from the fictional field of Quantum Bogodynamics, is the Lenat. The Lenat is seldom used, as it is understood that it is too large for normal conversation. Its most common form is the microLenat.

 

Jesus christ what a load of BS on this thread. Stick to replying to the technical questions and stop discussing about measurements and linguistic S*** about what a pixel is.

This line works if i start the game windowed, i use it on awake and it suddenly snaps my game to full screen native resolution.

Screen.SetResolution(Screen.currentResolution.width, Screen.currentResolution.height, true);

but it's possible that it doesn't work as intended on screens with different aspect ratios than mine and sadly i can't test that now

 

Anyone looking for the answer to the original question of this thread, this will probably help you.

 

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NOTE there is some weird behavior regarding mac retina ..

if you LAUNCH WINDOWED, it will report the "half width" (say 1792)

CHANGE the app to FULLSCREEN (ie, tap apple-F) and it will now report the correct figure (say 3584)

HOWEVER

if you RETURN to WINDOWED it will FROM NOW ON report the correct figure, ie 3584

EXCEPTION

If you LAUNCH IN fullscreen it will THEN only show the HALF value (eg 1792)

So it's a total disaster

This is absolutely a Unity bug.

 

Stop being F***ing annoying with your post style ( font size, font bold, font color ).
That's really really pissing me off.

 

Want a tissue?

 

Did you ever find a solution to this retina issue? we're running into the same problem (2019 LTS)

 

Hi Guys! Has this issue ever been fixed? I'm using Unity 2020.3.25f, and even though my resolution is 1920x1080, when I launch the game both Screen.currentResolution and Screen.Width+Screen.height return a smaller resolution.
All I want to do is have the game start automatically at native - I have the "Default is Native Resolution" checkbox checked, not sure what more I can do...

 

They have never fixed it or even addressed it and they likely never will.

 

thanks! What I've ended up doing is initially forcing the resolution to 1920x1080, and then having an options screen where you can choose from various resolutions, instead of trying to have the game "figure out" what the resolution is.

 

Is Screen.currentResolution always returning the desktop resolution when windowed? If so just start in windowed mode, record the resolution, and then immediately call Screen.SetResolution().

 

Here's how to access all the resolutions:

// resolution in windowed mode
Screen.width
Screen.height

// resolution set in the operating system
Screen.currentResolution.width
Screen.currentResolution.height

// EDIT: The code below is actually false! It just returns same as Screen.width & height.
// native resolution of the monitor
Display.main.systemWidth
Display.main.systemHeight

Let me know if any of are incorrect, I've haven't got a chance to test all of them in build.

 

I can vouch for that.

What I did was get all resolutions and then use the last one as the "native" one for my calculations LOL

Code (CSharp):

1. resolutions = Screen.resolutions.ToList();
2. resolutions = resolutions.GroupBy(resolution => new { resolution.width, resolution.height }).Select(group => group.First()).ToList();
3. Debug.Log($"native resolution: {resolutions[^1].width} {resolutions[^1].height}");