Battlefield 2 & 2142 Widescreen Hack

[TheLeper]

works well without any problems, i do see benefit in using this helps with gunship and tank work as you have more periferal vision for pesky engineers/gunships

that being said, its not like an aimbot just because there may be someone in your fov doesnt mean youd notice them let alone down them so the advantage is neglegible

[Dopefish]

I just released v1.06 of this program. It adjusts the FOV only when you're zoomed out. This gets rid of the panning problem when you zoom in. The only drawback is that when you zoom in, you are getting the horizontally and vertically cropped view. When you're zoomed out, you'll gain the extra horizontal viewing area, though. This should clear up a lot of problems for people and provide a more usable daily solution.

Widescreen Fixer v1.06

[Erhardt]

Thanks Dopefish. Your work is greatly appreciated!:salute:

[-=Phizzo=-]

Nah - you may as well say having a good machine is a 'hack', but it is 'intended by the developers' that a better machine means you can play the game with improved graphics and sound including viewing distance.

I just bought myself an 8800 ultra and I can now put my graphics settings to max. I can see SO much better and shoot people a LONG way off because of it. If I had an 800x600 monitor, a 5600 card and stereo speakers I could play, but I wouldn't be pulling off any long distance kills and wouldn't be as 'aware' of my surroundings = I would die more and kill less. It would be like a real soldier fighting with a gasmask on.

The reason widescreens are not coded for is they weren't coded for to begin with and, so, will take considerable effort to code for now. The minimal 'advantage' having 20% greater FOV is just a convenient excuse.

so then having better gfx lets you see furthur? how the hell on earth is this fair to others with lesser computers? no wonder im getting killing by people i cant even see at all

[Erhardt]

Well, to put it bluntly, it's not fair. *shrug* That's why the whole argument of a hardware advantage with "widescreen resolution isn't fair" doesn't hold up to begin with. If a widescreen monitor isn't fair, neither are faster processors, RAM, or video cards.

Some people have the horsepower to run a given game well beyond what other people's older PCs can do. It's just the way it is, anymore. Devs and publishers have to make a game that will blow you away, and that means hefty hardware. But they need to sell to as many people as possible, which means it has to scale down to run on less than optimal machines.

So, everybody gets to play, but those with the better hardware get distinct advantages; it's just the nature of the beast.

[THEONEANDONLY]

Are they ever goin to allow Dual Screens??? :)

[Dopefish]

Version 1.10 is up. :)

* Saves settings now.
* Vehicle field of view extended for BF2142.
* Added window fade in/out on open/close.
* Cleaned up a lot of code internally.
* Also remembers last position of application itself.
* Default update time lowered to 20ms.
* Enable/disable key moved to Right Control.
* Disabling the fix in BF2 now restores the default FOV.
* Cleaned up installer script and installer registry entries.
* Fixed file description.

http://imk.cx/pc/widescreenfixer/

[joe2]

woot thank you

[n00bs4brkfst]

Dope FTW :)

[TrooperJac]

Thanks. This is working pretty much flawlessly for me now. Had to take screenshots to make sure it was applied.

[joe2]

hmm, when i add +widescreen 1 +szx 1536 +szy 960 to the shortcut my game crashes to the desktop instantly when i start it.

[Dopefish]

the 1536 by 960 was just an example to show off the difference... set the resolution you want... if you want 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1900x1200, 1900x1020, or whatever resolution your lcd is or the window you want...

[TrooperJac]

Any chance of an update for 1.4 :nod:

Just checked the change log for the latest version to se the BF2142 Beta 1.43 is included - assuming this will work as this is what I am still running. Cheers

[cyberzomby]

Wauw Im gonna try this out someday

19" widescreen

One question though: You move the camera back to enable us to see more? Does this mean you got to move closer to knife someone?

[TrooperJac]

Hmmm

Doesn't appear to be working for me anymore. I am running it for 2142 1.4 beta 3 at 16:10 but my view remains the same.

Anyone else check this on there systems so I can check it ain't just me with a wrong setting somewhere.