Widescreen Gaming Forum

I was band by Punk Buster, PBBans ...
Widescreen Fixer is why. I made no other changes to my system.
I was playing BF3 stopped playing to add Widescreen Fixer and after adding it I re entered the game and I was banned. "Multihack" #79544.
Now I don't know what to do.
I don't think theres anything I can do.

Appeals spent.

All I wanted to do was make the game look better.....

Considering BF3 supports multi monitor by default, why on earth would you run WS fixer?...

[quote]I was band by Punk Buster, PBBans ...
Widescreen Fixer is why. I made no other changes to my system.
I was playing BF3 stopped playing to add Widescreen Fixer and after adding it I re entered the game and I was banned. "Multihack" #79544.
Now I don't know what to do.
I don't think theres anything I can do.

Appeals spent.

All I wanted to do was make the game look better.....

Considering BF3 supports multi monitor by default, why on earth would you run WS fixer?...


This is why:P No wonder they punked him:( But the disclaimer is there:) all he had was to read:P

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The BF3 fix is only meant for single-player. While you can set your own FOV for multi-player, there is no option for single-player. This is why it exists. If you configure the plugin on the right side it says, in all capital letters, "DO NOT USE ONLINE!"

While I'm sorry that you got banned, I'm not sure what can be done about it. You'll just have to talk with EvenBalance and see if you can work something out.

New internal IP, New external IP, New router, New network card for a new Mac address, New email address, new name for registration, New Game purchase..
All this has to be done so I can rejoin and NOT be banned in my clan.
I cant think of anything else to do to get around Even balance, Punk Buster,PBBans, and ACI.
Is there anything else i'm forgetting?

any chance this works on the latest update for Skyrim? 1.8 ?

Hi Dopefish, the widescreen fixer support for tomb raider anniversary does not work because the FOV snaps right back into way zoomed in as soon as the fix is enabled. The fix for underworld causes an instant crash as soon as it is enabled too. Any ideas? Thanks.

helifax wrote:I was referring to the game engine.. It seems the engine threats it as a unsigned 8 bit value even. which would be a max of 65025, but for some reason anything above 4096 gives the D3 renderer error. So I suspect they hardcoded or something to a max resolution of 4096...

They tried to be smart....

They bitshift and mask a 32bit unsigned integer, the resolution is stored in the following format:

RRRRRRRR YYYYYYYYYYYY XXXXXXXXXXXX
(8 bits) (12 bits) (12 bits)

Refresh Rate - Height - Width

eg for 5760 x 1080 @ 60hz - you're going to end up with 0x3C439680 which because of the overflow (12bit) becomes 1664x1081 @ 60hz, note the 9 in the 5th position, this should be 438 but because 5760 == 0x1680, the 8 becomes a 9 - when the engine comes to validate the settings they no longer match the requested resolution. 5760 != 1664 nor does 1920 == 1081

12 bit's gives a maximum representation of 0 - 4096

an unsigned 8 bit value will only ever represent 0 - 255, this is governed by basic binary principals, eg. 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 (add) = 255, all on = 255, all off = 0, 128+64+32=224

The resolution validation can be bypassed at 0x005213A1

tru.exe+121398 - C1 EA 18 - shr edx,18
tru.exe+12139B - 3B F1 - cmp esi,ecx
tru.exe+12139D - 89 6C 24 14 - mov [esp+14],ebp
tru.exe+1213A1 - 74 38 - je tru.exe+1213DB <<------ change this line to jmp 005213E4 (0xEB, 0x41)
tru.exe+1213A3 - 8D 5E 0C - lea ebx,[esi+0C]
tru.exe+1213A6 - 0FB7 06 - movzx eax,word ptr [esi]
tru.exe+1213A9 - 3B C5 - cmp eax,ebp

You're basically looking to have the al register = 1

That still won't solve the problem however because the rest of the engine is likely performing a similar operation on that messed up 32bit unsigned int, which is likely also fixable, but have not gotten that far yet as I type this.

So anyway...
I used WSF (v6.09) to play through The Walking Dead in Surround, no problem.
Then I tried to "fix" 16:10 fer teh lulz, and WSF just stopped responding. Switched back to 3x 16:9 in game... still nothing.
So I deleted the David_Rudie folder and downloaded the latest version of WSF (6.13), to no avail.
Now no matter what I do, WSF won't work (program hangs endlessly, TWD is not detected).

How do I "uninstall" WideScreenFixer completely so that I can start afresh ?

scavvenjahh wrote:So anyway...
I used WSF (v6.09) to play through The Walking Dead in Surround, no problem.
Then I tried to "fix" 16:10 fer teh lulz, and WSF just stopped responding. Switched back to 3x 16:9 in game... still nothing.
So I deleted the David_Rudie folder and downloaded the latest version of WSF (6.13), to no avail.
Now no matter what I do, WSF won't work (program hangs endlessly, TWD is not detected).

How do I "uninstall" WideScreenFixer completely so that I can start afresh ?

Glad that it worked:) and sorry that it doesn't anymore... To uninstall it...go to %AppData% (go one folder back) and select Local folder. In there search for "David_Rudie" folder and delete that... The next time you start WSF it should be fresh.

I know some users reporting this...but I cannot reproduce it...It seems that sometimes the game finds the exe name of the app but not the window class...and its just in a loop.... No idea why it behaves like this...Maybe Dopefish can explain better:)

Best Regards,
Helifax

I hope he can. Season 2 is coming.
Great fix anyway, it is sorely missed. I wasn't sure what to expect but as it turns out, Hor+ MM totally suits the game.

scavvenjahh wrote:I hope he can. Season 2 is coming.
Great fix anyway, it is sorely missed. I wasn't sure what to expect but as it turns out, Hor+ MM totally suits the game.

I know about season 2 ) Once is here I will update the fix for that one also:) I am looking forward to play S02 also;))

Did you uninstall/reinstall WSF? Did the fix worked afterwards?

Tomb Raider 2013 got me to re-play earlier games.
none of Underworld, Anniversary, and Legend works with Widescreen Fixer?
WF indicates that game is running and fix is applied, but in-game, nothing changes?

Underworld I can use the old regedit trick, but cannot do it with Anniversary and Legend~

teardropmina wrote:Tomb Raider 2013 got me to re-play earlier games.
none of Underworld, Anniversary, and Legend works with Widescreen Fixer?
WF indicates that game is running and fix is applied, but in-game, nothing changes?

Underworld I can use the old regedit trick, but cannot do it with Anniversary and Legend~

Hey,

Yes I see a problem there with that plugin, but the other 2 work just fine..

One important THING though.... The MAXIMUM Supported resolution by the engine is 3800x800, going higher than this...it will make the game crash at launch....
The fixes are made for the Steam version of the games ( I haven't tested them on other versions, but I imagine they might not work).


I will fix the TR Underworld plugin. Let me know about the others once you select the correct resolution:)

PS: Only the fov and AR is correcter, the HUD will still stretch over 3 monitors.

helifax wrote:The fixes are made for the Steam version of the games ( I haven't tested them on other versions, but I imagine they might not work).


I will fix the TR Underworld plugin. Let me know about the others once you select the correct resolution:)

that might be the problem~ I bought the games when they just came out, and I think there's no steam version back in the days~

I do select the correct resolution, the game launches fine, wf indicates that game is running and fix is applied...but nothing happens in-game~

teardropmina wrote:

helifax wrote:The fixes are made for the Steam version of the games ( I haven't tested them on other versions, but I imagine they might not work).


I will fix the TR Underworld plugin. Let me know about the others once you select the correct resolution:)

that might be the problem~ I bought the games when they just came out, and I think there's no steam version back in the days~

I do select the correct resolution, the game launches fine, wf indicates that game is running and fix is applied...but nothing happens in-game~

Unfortunately I don't have access to any other binaries except the steam released versions..so there is no way I can update them to work with your versions...

helifax, please check your pm:)

Any chance there is a fix in the works for Skyrim 1.9. I just can't bring myself to play on one screen after doing 7680x1600 for so long.

PS: I'm still annoyed that Steam forced the update out even for people that had updates turned off.

Update: Just saw in a different Skyrim thread that Helifax is already working on it today. Thanks for your efforts!

helifax wrote:

teardropmina wrote:

helifax wrote:The fixes are made for the Steam version of the games ( I haven't tested them on other versions, but I imagine they might not work).


I will fix the TR Underworld plugin. Let me know about the others once you select the correct resolution:)

that might be the problem~ I bought the games when they just came out, and I think there's no steam version back in the days~

I do select the correct resolution, the game launches fine, wf indicates that game is running and fix is applied...but nothing happens in-game~

Unfortunately I don't have access to any other binaries except the steam released versions..so there is no way I can update them to work with your versions...

Hi, so just to be clear on this, if I buy the Steam versions (from steampowered.com?) of Tomb Raider (2013, Underworld, Anniversary, Legend) I can play them on 3 monitors with Widescreen Fixer? (they have a package deal now.) I did install .NET 4. Can I play them in XP or do I need to use Win7? Anniversary still works with SoftTH thanks to an FOV hack but Underworld stopped working; in XP I can't get 3 screens anymore, and in Win7, all I see is the fire and smoke in the beginning and can't figure out how to fix that issue.

thanks.

P.S. I saw another post here where someone else is working on a new widescreen software too.

teardropmina wrote:

helifax wrote:The fixes are made for the Steam version of the games ( I haven't tested them on other versions, but I imagine they might not work).


I will fix the TR Underworld plugin. Let me know about the others once you select the correct resolution:)

that might be the problem~ I bought the games when they just came out, and I think there's no steam version back in the days~

I do select the correct resolution, the game launches fine, wf indicates that game is running and fix is applied...but nothing happens in-game~

Hey, I have both Underworld and Anniversary (non-Steam) running in softTH. Try it out or gimme a holler if you need help setting it up. You need the FOV hack for Anniversary.
I have several posts in their forum.

One thing I'm not clear on (since I haven't read every post here) is what settings you use if the 3 monitors are not the same size?

Thanks