Aidan Woods

I can second that; issue is not present in 1.8-pre3.

Behaviour unchanged in 1.8-pre2:
Full screen zooming/cropping still rendering game unusable throughout the game, with the exception of the title screen.

Ezekiel, that is the first confirmation that the bug is actually being worked on that we've had. All other previous feedback from Mojang, and current information at the top of the page, indicates that the bug was not going to be fixed (including Grum's own comment). No one is complaining about the current situation, understandably it's a snapshot and things go wrong; however, up until that last comment it appeared no one was working on fixing this.

The fact no one appeared to be working, or gave indication of intent to work on it, was the main concern. Not the existence of the bug, we're all very well aware of how to use native fullscreen.

Thanks for the updated information 🙂

I already know how to fix it, but unless you put that on the release notes there are going to be a lot of unhappy users.

The purpose of the following is to state the severity of the bug; not to blame, offend or be hostile to anyone mentioned, I appreciate your work on minecraft:

The 'final' snapshot has been released for 1.8 and this is still unresolved. It seems that now Grum has had a quick look into (unsuccessfully) replicating the bug, it will now go unresolved into the main release. Of course it's not difficult to work around the bug using the native fullscreen, however many users will have fullscreen enabled in-game. As a result, when they are auto-updated to the latest (1.8) release (provided they have a retina macbook), the game will launch directly into fullscreen and will appear unusable (once past the title screen, which for some reason this bug does not effect).

Since my snapshot resides in a different folder to the officially released minecraft (and I expect this applies to most users who reported this bug); it was easy to link the issue to fullscreen straight away, because it was not enabled before starting the game. (As explained) it's unlikely non-snapshot users will link the bug to fullscreen, and thus makes this a game breaking bug for such users.

To reiterate my point: any users who (have payed for the game), have a retina macbook and full screen enabled in-game will be unable to play after the official release, because the zooming makes the game completely unusable. This bug has a trivial fix, but is not a trivial bug.

In reply to: [Mojang] Grum (Erik Broes)

As far as replicating the issue goes, no one has reported that specific scenario in order to encounter the issue, I encounter the issue as soon as I select full screen from the options menu. Zooming in while forcing full screen on world loading may be a separate bug. I'd advise trying on a retina macbook since the pixel density is different to what would be expected for that screen size. Specifically I am using the late 2013 15" model, but it does not appear to be limited to that machine according to the comments.