NHL 06

[Horizon]

Any chance someone might know how to get this widescreened?

I know its not built into the game but can anyone hack it?

I mean Madden is ws, why can't NHL :(

[HDfanatic]

madden '06 supports widescreen?

[Samhain]

Yes please can someone get this one in widescreen this year. Hack it or something. How much of the worlds population now has a widescreen tv or monitor?? Does no one bring this up at EA's board meetings? Certainly someone there could say "I think NHL would look good in widescreen for a change"

But no, every year a new nhl and no native support for widescreen. Just boring old 4:3 aspects that force me to use my 17 inch Acer monitor.

I think i've done enough ranting this year. But yes, a hack for this one would be appreciated and long overdue.

[kilmar]

If someone can tell me how to get Madden 06 PC widescreen, I'll get down on all fours and kiss your feet.

[jeffmace]

Yes, I would really like to know how to get both Madden '06 and NHL '06 in widescreen. 1920x1200 would be great. Any info would be helpful.

[Horizon]

With Madden I just selected the resolution.

I have a Geforce 6600 GT and the Dell 20 inch widescreen monitor with their monitor driver....then it was an option to select the ws resolution.

[HDfanatic]

what resolution are you running it at?

[Horizon]

1680 x 1050 but I will double check res only kicks in during game not on menu.

[Addy]

I have a 2005fpw as well and can’t get Madden 06 to do 1680x1050 native. It offers 1600x900 and then stretches but not 1680x1050, would love to know how to get it to work.

Just picked up NHL 06 today and 1280x1024 is the best I get in the settings. With Madden I edited the madden.ini and added a custom resolution of 1400x1050, if I could do that with NHL 06 I’d be happy enough.

[mic]

In which folder will I find madden.ini? I searched all the subfolders but I couldn't find it.

Thanx

[Addy]

It's in "my documents"

X:Documents and SettingsxxxxxxMy DocumentsMadden NFL 06

[mic]

It's in "my documents"

X:Documents and SettingsxxxxxxMy DocumentsMadden NFL 06

Thanks, Found it!! Too bad NHL 06 doesn't have the same thing.

[Samhain]

Ok, I took a look into the main NHL06.exe file and fiddled with it and a hex editor. Interestingly enough, I found only one occurence of 800x600 and when I tried to edit that it changed nothing in the game. I tried several different resolutions.

I did, however, find 30 locations for 1280x1024 and I changed a few. Most of them did nothing but one of them caused the game to crash right when you start a game. It looks like it tries to change the resolution but fails.

This is as close as i've gotten so far. But i'm not giving up yet.

[Samhain]

ok...i've definitely found the location in the EXE file where the resolutions are set. But if I try to change any of them (ie 1600x1200 to 1680x1050) I either don't get the 1600x1200 or the 1680x1050 in the list of choices, or the game crashes when it tries to go into the game.

Being a beginner at this, maybe someone who has had more experience can take a closer look now that we know where the res's are. I'm using the latest version of WinHex as my editor and the resolutions are located around Offset 1500

Good luck!

[steppinrazor]

Any success yet? Is there any way to force 4:3 ratio (bars on left and right sides) on a widescreen monitor? At 1600x1200 it stretches left and right to fill the 1920x1200 screen. Setting the desktop to 1600x1200 doesn't help. I have a Dell 2405p.

[Paradigm Shifter]

Either set it to 'fixed aspect scaling' in the Dell OSD (read the manual to find out how) or (if you have an nVidia card) you can do it in the driver control panel. :)

[Samhain]

I'm outputting the game to my widescreen rear projection TV via DVI cable. When I put the game in 1280x1024 it is displayed as a normal 4:3 with the bars on the left and right. Any other resolution and I get a very small screen that just looks sad and pathetic.

I have still had no luck. They really did a good job of making the NHL games tough to get in widescreen. 1280x1024 is the highest resolution I can get.

I will have another crack at it early next week and i'll post my results.

[steppinrazor]

Either set it to 'fixed aspect scaling' in the Dell OSD (read the manual to find out how) or (if you have an nVidia card) you can do it in the driver control panel.

I don't have the option in DVI mode. For some bizarre reason, the higher quality inputs you use on this monitor, the less features available.

I switched over to a VGA cable, and I can change the aspect ratio in that mode, and at least get a normal looking game.

I'll try 1280x1024 and see if that defaults to 4:3 even when in widescreen DVI mode.

[Deez]

Any success yet? Is there any way to force 4:3 ratio (bars on left and right sides) on a widescreen monitor? At 1600x1200 it stretches left and right to fill the 1920x1200 screen. Setting the desktop to 1600x1200 doesn't help. I have a Dell 2405p.

I have a Dell 2405 also and using 1600x1200 for NHL2006. It doesnt seem that bad really, and looks amazing.

[FusionXP]

Same here. I guess it's the nature of the game that doesn't make it look stretched out.