Quake 4 Native Widescreen support?

Cabezone · Post by **Cabezone** » 19 Oct 2005, 22:14

[quote]Gravelayer,
Go back up this topic a ways and click on the Doom3 link that was posted for the widescreen solution. Quake 4 and Doom 3 have the same game engine so the widescreen fix works.

I also have a Dell 2405 FPW and I am playing Quake 4 in 1920 x 1200 with an FOV of 100. Works great. All you have to do is change a few lines in a config file.

It is working for me with pretty nice gameplay on a 6800 GT OC from BFG. Your 7800 ought to rock it.

So FOV is 100 can you PLEASE GIVE ME EXACTLY ALL STEPS NEEDED!?!?
Is that then 16:9 ? (Novice WS guy)

Shannow,
Taking a screen shot will tell you what your really at.

I foy ufollow the Doom3 link it will give YOU THE EXACTLY ALL STEPS NEEDED!

FusionXP · Post by **FusionXP** » 19 Oct 2005, 23:51

Found this on another forum. Works great on a 2405.

Create a file called autoexec.cfg and paste the following into it. Then copy it over to your q4base folder. Works great on my 2405.

seta com_allowconsole "1"
seta r_customheight "1200"
seta r_customwidth "1920"
seta r_mode "-1"
seta r_aspectratio "2"
seta g_fov "110"
seta r_finish "1"
seta cm_backfacecull "1"
seta image_usecache "1"
seta image_usecachemegs "256"
seta image_usecachemink "3072"

You can change the resolution to 1680 x 1050 if you prefer.

shannow · Post by **shannow** » 20 Oct 2005, 02:42

whats performance like? :P

In single player, just awesome, maximum detail. In multiplayer I turn all advanced options off, still looks good.

I took a screenshot and I am running at the correct res, so it does work

papahet · Post by **papahet** » 20 Oct 2005, 12:43

Found this on another forum. Works great on a 2405.

Create a file called autoexec.cfg and paste the following into it. Then copy it over to your q4base folder. Works great on my 2405.

seta com_allowconsole "1"
seta r_customheight "1200"
seta r_customwidth "1920"
seta r_mode "-1"
seta r_aspectratio "2"
seta g_fov "110"
seta r_finish "1"
seta cm_backfacecull "1"
seta image_usecache "1"
seta image_usecachemegs "256"
seta image_usecachemink "3072"

You can change the resolution to 1680 x 1050 if you prefer.

I try this solution with my dell 1600x1050 but i have a strange result:

http://metuwr.free.fr/q4ratio.JPG

Edited by Paddywak to remove the img code as the screenshot was too wide.

GraveLayer · Post by **GraveLayer** » 20 Oct 2005, 15:16

Found this on another forum. Works great on a 2405.

Create a file called autoexec.cfg and paste the following into it. Then copy it over to your q4base folder. Works great on my 2405.

seta com_allowconsole "1"
seta r_customheight "1200"
seta r_customwidth "1920"
seta r_mode "-1"
seta r_aspectratio "2"
seta g_fov "110"
seta r_finish "1"
seta cm_backfacecull "1"
seta image_usecache "1"
seta image_usecachemegs "256"
seta image_usecachemink "3072"

You can change the resolution to 1680 x 1050 if you prefer.

I'll give it a try but sure would like to know why the cachemegs, cachemink and FOV settings are what they are in the .cfg file. I just want to run 1920x1200 without "effecting" anything else.

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 20 Oct 2005, 21:42

cachemegs: MB of RAM to use as a cache for the game. Normally it's set pretty low - 32 or 64 (or in some cases disabled entirely!) note that this is not how much RAM the .exe will chew up. Normally best set to 1/4 or 3/8 of available RAM, if I remember my Quake 3 tweaking guides correctly... ;)

cachemink: the smallest amount of the cache that is utilised at any one time, in kilobytes. :) Best set to the value of 'cachemegs' /8 *1024 - so 128 becomes 16384. If cachemink is too low, Doom 3 engine games crash rather spectacularly - if they load at all...

In order for these to have any effect, however, you need to turn on 'usecache' by setting it to 1. ;)

FOV is the field of vision. I don't know what the default is, but 110 seems a little high - it might fisheye the screen at the edges...

FusionXP · Post by **FusionXP** » 20 Oct 2005, 22:57

[quote]Found this on another forum. Works great on a 2405.

Create a file called autoexec.cfg and paste the following into it. Then copy it over to your q4base folder. Works great on my 2405.

seta com_allowconsole "1"
seta r_customheight "1200"
seta r_customwidth "1920"
seta r_mode "-1"
seta r_aspectratio "2"
seta g_fov "110"
seta r_finish "1"
seta cm_backfacecull "1"
seta image_usecache "1"
seta image_usecachemegs "256"
seta image_usecachemink "3072"

You can change the resolution to 1680 x 1050 if you prefer.

I try this solution with my dell 1600x1050 but i have a strange result:

It should be 1680 not 1600. Maybe that is the problem.

papahet · Post by **papahet** » 21 Oct 2005, 00:19

[quote][quote]Found this on another forum. Works great on a 2405.

Create a file called autoexec.cfg and paste the following into it. Then copy it over to your q4base folder. Works great on my 2405.

seta com_allowconsole "1"
seta r_customheight "1200"
seta r_customwidth "1920"
seta r_mode "-1"
seta r_aspectratio "2"
seta g_fov "110"
seta r_finish "1"
seta cm_backfacecull "1"
seta image_usecache "1"
seta image_usecachemegs "256"
seta image_usecachemink "3072"

You can change the resolution to 1680 x 1050 if you prefer.

I try this solution with my dell 1600x1050 but i have a strange result:

It should be 1680 not 1600. Maybe that is the problem.

thx u!!! works perfect now! 1680x1050! i have re-change the fov to "90". No deformations.

papahet · Post by **papahet** » 21 Oct 2005, 00:26

work perfectly, good framerate. All options MAX & AAx2.

here, the new ati driver for special OpenGL game : Quake4, Doom3, Serious Sam2.
5.10a beta. (incredible performances. more than 35% increase!!)

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=20855

Screenshot ...
http://metuwr.free.fr/QUAKE4wp.jpg

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Please could you resuce the size of the screenshots you are posting ...
Large screenshots make it a pain to read the threads ... you have to scroll left and right to read the posts. It's the same with 'long links'. :)
Here's an example of how to post screenshots ...
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The code to use is here ...

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Thank you ... :)

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 21 Oct 2005, 12:01

Seems that nVidia can no longer guarantee their dominance in OpenGL... 35% is a serious increase just from optimising drivers! 8)

On the Quake 4 topic, just loaded it up, used the following settings: 1680x1050, medium detail, turned on caching with the settings at 256 and 32768 respectively; aspect set to 2, FOV to 100.

Plays very smoothly. Load times are a bit on the long side, but I was expecting that with a 2500+. In game FPS meter reports a pretty constant 35-40FPS. Bear in mind that I tend to spend a considerable amount of time optimising the number of running background processes and things like that, but I haven't defragged the install yet; nor have I extracted the .pk4 files: I could probably drop load times by about 25% if I did that...

Overall, my initial impressions of Quake 4 are pretty good. I think they made it a bit dark in places, but it's better than Doom 3. ;)

I guess the next port of call is FEAR. Wonder if I can get that to run OK...

dementor · Post by **dementor** » 21 Oct 2005, 16:33

[quote][quote][quote]Found this on another forum. Works great on a 2405.

Create a file called autoexec.cfg and paste the following into it. Then copy it over to your q4base folder. Works great on my 2405.

seta com_allowconsole "1"
seta r_customheight "1200"
seta r_customwidth "1920"
seta r_mode "-1"
seta r_aspectratio "2"
seta g_fov "110"
seta r_finish "1"
seta cm_backfacecull "1"
seta image_usecache "1"
seta image_usecachemegs "256"
seta image_usecachemink "3072"

You can change the resolution to 1680 x 1050 if you prefer.

I try this solution with my dell 1600x1050 but i have a strange result:

It should be 1680 not 1600. Maybe that is the problem.

thx u!!! works perfect now! 1680x1050! i have re-change the fov to "90". No deformations.

So should I be changing the fov and the usechace...etc or just the aspectratio mode width/height console?
i'd like it for 1680x1050

El_Presidente · Post by **El_Presidente** » 21 Oct 2005, 18:11

Is this normal look of textures in this game? Ewerythign is high.

http://mbnet.fi/jarza/Kuva/Q4.JPG

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 21 Oct 2005, 18:13

:shock: Definitely not! Something is wrong somewhere! :shock:

I'll go and find one of the screenies I took of the game on medium...

Edit: Here y'are: (click for fullsize jpgs)

El_Presidente · Post by **El_Presidente** » 21 Oct 2005, 18:43

Hmm, damn. What could it be.

El_Presidente · Post by **El_Presidente** » 21 Oct 2005, 18:52

Here is other one.
http://mbnet.fi/jarza/Kuva/Q4-2.JPG

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 21 Oct 2005, 19:21

Can you try adjusting the detail level and seeing what happens?

GraveLayer · Post by **GraveLayer** » 21 Oct 2005, 19:55

seta com_allowconsole "1"
seta r_customheight "1200"
seta r_customwidth "1920"
seta r_mode "-1"
seta r_aspectratio "2"
seta g_fov "110"
seta r_finish "1"
seta cm_backfacecull "1"
seta image_usecache "1"
seta image_usecachemegs "512"
seta image_usecachemink "65536"

Well I set that up in the autoexec.cfg as I'm running 2Gig of RAM. I'll report back how it works!

GraveLayer · Post by **GraveLayer** » 21 Oct 2005, 20:07

Works great by my frames are sure down from 16x12! In the two print screens I got 44 and then 22 under heaving fighting.

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 21 Oct 2005, 21:04

The 'wide' res will have a performance drop, but I didn't think it'd be 50%, maybe 25-30%, though. :? Also, I'm not sure just how much help the 'r_finish' cvar is - it forces a GLFinish of every frame; exactly what impact that will have, I'm not sure...

JetSonic · Post by **JetSonic** » 22 Oct 2005, 04:03

When is the rest of the gaming world going to climb onboard the WIDESCREEN train and give us a F***ing resolution of 1920 x 1200!!!!!!!!!!

Instead of us widescreen gamers always having to climb inside the mysterious gaming files and alter shit.

I mean it's almost the year 2006, we sent men to the moon almost FORTY years ago and they can't code in a simple freaking screen resolution for Widescreens!!!!!!!!

USA has gone to shits!!!!

From now on make games at the North Pole and let the eskimos have a crack at gaming software, couldn't be any worse.

Activision and others, PULL YOUR HEADS OUT!!!!!! :evil:

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