Widescreen Gaming Forum

Two thumbs up. It's really great. Want to know what the experts think? Check out the reivew scores at gamerankings.com. It's getting the best scores I've seen for an adventure game for a long time.

I have a similare problem when I try to run DarkWidescreen.bat in my SS2 folder. I get the following message:

Copying and patching 1 file ...

shock2.exe (2908160 bytes) not found, but found 240658 bytes, skipping...

thief.exe not found, skipping...

thief2.exe not found, skipping ...

boiling point is one of the best games ever.

My view exactly.

Wondering the same thing as pjrenda.

[quote]Sounds like it will run with black bars on a 16:10 monitor like Condemned... oh well.

Whats so bad about that? you get the full 16:9 screen with only a little letterboxing. Sounds good to me.
BioShock is carrying the Games for Windows brand so strictly speaking it is supposed to have ...

Did you have any luck PS?

The statement on the offical Games for Windows web site seems very vague. Games for Windows branded titles "even support widescreen resolutions and more." What on earth does that mean?

There are many different widescreen resolutions. Which ones must be supported? Why can't they specify ...

Actually, Outbox is stuff you've sent, but the recipient hasn't "picked up."

So if a message is in the Outbox I don't have to do anything else. That right?

What's the difference between Sentbox and Outbox? Don't understand.

The readme.txt in the game folder says that the "Alpha Centauri.ini" file can be edited using the following commands:

"DirectDraw=0
Setting this to 0 disables DirectDraw. This disables the automatic window resolution resizing during program launch.

Video Mode=800 or Video Mode=1024 ...

squ1zzy, I did search and I had already looked at that page. It says that pillarboxing can be achieved via driver settings or by monitor settings but it says nothing about which method produces better results.

I recently discovered this gem of a game but there is a surprising dearth of information about running it on a widescreen monitor. It isn't on the Master Game List and I searched for a solution on the forums but found none. Does anyone know if it is even possible to get it running in widescreen ...

If I want to pillarbox a non-widescreen game is it better to achieve it through driver settings or by scaling using monitor settings, if both ways are available?