Widescreen Gaming Forum

Well. I give up. This is what EA had to say to the whole matter.:

"Unfortunantly, many games do not support the widescreen format. Our games are only tested on normal CRT monitors.

If you wish to exchange your games for a sealed copy for a refund, kindly contact the dutch office for ...

There is a few 4x3 resolutions in there ... 400 x 300 ... 800 x 600 ... 1024 x 768 ... 1152 x 864
Give one of these a try in your shortcut target.

You don't need to set it in the Nvidia Screen resolutions and refresh rates ... just try it for the game.

There would be no harm in trying ...

If you move the slider what available res options do you have ?
There are usually quite a few.
Is there only 1440x900 ?

* 320 x 200 / 320 x 240 / 400 x 300 / 480 x 360 / 512 x 384 / 640 x 400 / 640 x 480 / 720 x 480 / 720 x 576 / 800 x 600 / 848 x 480 / 960 x 600 / 1024 x 768 / 1088 x 612 ...

I think this is it then? I see no 4x3 option, only res. options..

@ Paddy: did not tested that yet, what are the res. for that?
@ Doug: i'm doing it again right now. Evidently, i skipped the whole testing stuff..

Anyway, this is what EA said in response this morning.:

"Hi Elmo,

Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts.

Looking at your dxdiag ...

Actually - the sound card issues I was referring to either slowed the framerates down very greatly or froze the game up - surprisingly it had nothing to do with the sound itself.

Anyway - I'm just trying to pass on what I have learned from other's experiences & issues.

EDIT:

BTW As ...

As some sound cards strangely are known to affect BF2
I.E. some X-fi Fatality's

uninstall the card & give it a shot - nothing to loose really ??

Uuh..

I doubt that this will help though, BF2 has always been running perfectly with the soundcard. It's just that the new monitor has ...

What sound card are you using?

As that might explain the issues.

Description: C-Media Wave Device
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: PCIVEN_13F6&DEV_0111&SUBSYS_011113F6&REV_10
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 100
Type: WDM
Driver Name ...

No problem, thanks for you're help anyway. At least some people do help others - unlike EA - i'll uninstall, clean the reg., and when that's done, i'll come back with the final conclusion.

It's that, or sell BF2 to someone..

Yeah ... your shortcut correct ... I used your shortcut and it worked fine for me.

I found a fix by someone else that seemed to be having the same problem as you ... look here at the post by Kaspre ... it is the second post ...
http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/node/#comment-

Also ...

Hmmm ... very strange ... :?

Could you copy and paste your target line from your shortcut ... just so we can double check ... I'll then try it on mine if you like ... 8)

This is what i did

"C:GamezBattlefield 2BF2.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1440 +szy 900

Is that correct?

Thx ill check that out then.

Messing with the 'Video.con' setting usually causes the game not to run (for me) ... you may need to reinstall ... :(

What res are you trying to run BF2 at ? ... I will give it a try.

2xAA is talking about Antialiasing.
In the Nvidia settings there is an option for 2xQ AA which for many ...

@ Ricepuppet ...
So what exactly is you problem ? ... may be someone here can help you.

NFSMW & Battlefield wouldn't start up
Does it lock up ?
Does it junk out to desktop ?

Please post you system specs ... a good place to put them is in your signature ... :D

What res are you ...

Although everyone has a fix by now...:

Ok, so i'm new to this forum, but i've been following it for quite a while cause i have the same problem. I bought me a widescreen Acer 19" a couple of days ago and that's when the shi-at happened.

NFSMW & Battlefield wouldn't start up, so i came here ...