BF2 in widescreen, Guide Here!

[C-Hawk]

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Talus: TKS, first I tried the Delete VIDEO.CON - - - did not work; thus, I Deleted the whole darn BF2 Folder..........and WALA. I'm back in the Battle.
It is running FULL Screen (not top and bottom clipped off) and I edited the Shortcut to 1680x1050............BUT...........in the Game NOW under Video it shows me running at 800x600 at 60Hz (which from what I gather in this thread is to be ignored - I am actually running at the Higher res's - RIGHT?) It has to be stretched (wide) because I notice my Radar Screen (upper right) is ovaled (new word).
TKS PFC C-Hawk still confused though

[Talus]

Re: BF2 in widescreen, Guide Here!

Yup...sounds like it's running as it should.

Your widescreen is filled and the viewport is in the proper perspective. Some HUD elements will appear stretched (e.g. mini-map).

Enjoy

[wutdafeezi]

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will BF2142 have real ws support?

[Talus]

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Nope. And Colin stated that it wouldn't a while back.

[RangerXML]

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BUT...........in the Game NOW under Video it shows me running at 800x600 at 60Hz (which from what I gather in this thread is to be ignored - I am actually running at the Higher res's - RIGHT?)

Actually your running at 800x600 stretched to fit 1680x1050, with the gun model corrected for the stretch and a stretched HUD. The way I figure on this is change the res and then play the game, two things will stand out at the different resolutions; one, press the "~" key, the text will be distorted and unreadable depenting on which res your on; two, the size of the flags that tell you how fare your away from a base on screen will be different sizes (the lower the res the bigger they are. Try it out yourself.

[StevenNevets]

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Oh, so it is normal for video.con and the in-game settings to say 800x600 but by editing that text line from the icon I'm realy on wirescreen?

[Talus]

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Yes.

One of the many annoyances we have to put up with because DICE refuses to support widescreen.

[StevenNevets]

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I actualy think the game look great in widescreen...

It's just the text and HUD:cry:

[dewey]

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well i just got a samsung syncmaster205bw. the shortcut hack works great for bf2 single player. as long as i double click the shortcut i get my 1680x1050 res, but when i use a multiplayer browser and connect i revert back to 800x600. i've tried deleting all of my video.con files. that didn't work for me. seeing as i only play multiplayer help.

how do you get gamespy not to revert me back to 800x600res. does everyone who plays bf2 in widescreen do it in single player?

[imported_Spastik]

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dewey, does you monitor have a DVI and a VGA pluig in? try the VGA plug. When I connect my monitor with the VGA plug it shows my resolution in the video options. Its a 20" widescreen with 1400X1050. Try it and see if it works. My dell 21" would not work this way though.

[StevenNevets]

Re: BF2 in widescreen, Guide Here!

well i just got a samsung syncmaster205bw. the shortcut hack works great for bf2 single player. as long as i double click the shortcut i get my 1680x1050 res, but when i use a multiplayer browser and connect i revert back to 800x600. i've tried deleting all of my video.con files. that didn't work for me. seeing as i only play multiplayer help.

how do you get gamespy not to revert me back to 800x600res. does everyone who plays bf2 in widescreen do it in single player?

read 2 posts up

[dewey]

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gamespy was launching the game from the exe. bypassing my hack. used gamespys command line promt which adds the hack when launching the game. so far it's working. i'm still sort of getting used to a lcd. the widescreen is nice ,but image quality is better on crt i think. mabe i don't have everything tweaked right.

[Talus]

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It takes time to get used to LCD...but you'll never go back to CRT (unless you get a huge excellent quality CRT )

[dumbrella]

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if it hasn't already been mentioned, it seems this is a way to get BF2 to allow you to run it at higher res's then it allowed in the video settings menu. in my case, i have a 1280x1024 native resolution Dell LCD, but before i did this trick, bf2 would only allow me to run at 1152x864, even though it seems now that my hardware is quite capable of playing at 1280x1024.

[bigbossmatt]

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You can either change this line to something like 800x600@60Hz, or just stick "rem " in front of the whole mess so that it is ignored by BF2.

I'm sorry, can someone explain how to do this? Do you mean:

VideoSettings.setResolution rem 800x600@60Hz
Or
rem VideoSettings.setResolution 800x600@60Hz
Or other?

It seems everyone is having trouble with 1440x900 resolution widescreen (which is what I am trying to get working).

Well nothings working, and I have read extensively through the widescreen gaming forums as well as this entire thread.

At this point, I would advise all those who intend to play on a screen with a native resolution of 1440x900 not to expect BF2 to support it. I can play the game, its just a little stretched thats all. But as for having BF2 running in widescreen, I will just have to keep an eye on the progress of the FOV changing hack and their work to be accepted by Punkbuster.