Visualizing Complexity

Playing Commandos 2 on a modern Windows 10 system with a 4K display revealed a major, unexpected pain point of the game: the menu will only run in 640x480, regardless of the resolution the game is set to. This compounds with the game not supporting 4K resolutions, so playing the game involves a mode switch on launch, a mode switch from the menu to the game, a mode switch from the game to the menu…