Multi-Game Widescreen Fixer

Soduka · Post by **Soduka** » 02 Sep 2007, 20:30

Is the demo Battlefield 2 1.4 or 1.41? No? Then it won't work.

Post by **g00seberry** » 02 Sep 2007, 21:07

I have one suggestion for it, referencing laziness.

Can you have it so it saves the last used settings? So you don't have to repick them everytime. Also then add an option like "Start minimised". This way it can be placed in Startup and load with windows, automatically on the right settings and minimised to the system tray, and you never have to think about it again! :D

Would be ace if you could implement those things ;)

TJ · Post by TJ » 04 Sep 2007, 19:00

TH2GO won't work. Just select the surround aspect ratios from the drop down to test. It ends up flipping the screen upside down. Either there's an error in the FOV calculator on this site or the BF engine just handles it really badly.

TH2GO works more less.

Take a look:

Normal 4:3 view 1024x768 TFT

16:9 view 1920x1080 with hack LCD-TV

16:4 view 3840x1024 with hack TH2GODE

But, there is a big problem: At 3840x1024hack without zoom weapon, all vehicles, antennas, soldiers, turrets and your weapon are not visible. :shock: :shock: :shock:

TAke a look at real resolution:

http://www.dsii.org/2142/vehiculonozoomweapon.jpg

If you zoom weapon, all vehicles, antennas, soldiers, turrets and your weapon are visible :shock: :shock: :shock:

http://www.dsii.org/2142/vehiculozoomweapon.jpg

Any explanation about that?

Dyce · Post by **Dyce** » 05 Sep 2007, 02:25

Me again...

The Widescreenfixer doesn't recognize my Battlefield 2 (german version) running.

I have Windows XP Prof 32bit, SP2... running as Admin. I can't figure out why it doesn't work.

Works fine here with german version.

TigerClaw · Post by **TigerClaw** » 16 Sep 2007, 19:38

Any chance of a new version of this program to fix the Widescreen for Battlefield 1942?

Post by **g00seberry** » 17 Sep 2007, 11:34

/poke, i still vote for having it save the settings on exit ;)

Sir.Talbot · Post by **Sir.Talbot** » 17 Sep 2007, 23:13

Can I just ask how you might go about finding out the aspect ratio your game of BF2142 is in? I'm running at 1440*900 with the command line extension... should automatically be 16:10 right?

Post by **g00seberry** » 17 Sep 2007, 23:24

Can I just ask how you might go about finding out the aspect ratio your game of BF2142 is in? I'm running at 1440*900 with the command line extension... should automatically be 16:10 right?

:welcome

Correct, 1440x900 is 16:10

blunden · Post by **blunden** » 21 Sep 2007, 22:54

Great program. Too bad it's not in the BF2 article here. I always go to this site when installing a new game since the chance that it doesn't do Hor+ is a lot greater than it being natively supported. :( I would have missed it if not for the fact that tweakguides.com linked to it in their guide.

Eclipse2k4 · Post by **Eclipse2k4** » 21 Sep 2007, 23:54

Hey there!
I just got myself a new Toshiba laptop with an ati radeon hd 2600 card but i can only play in 1024x... <-- i dunno right know ;D!
i tried these Battlefield 2142 Beta" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1680 +szy 1050 things but it doesnt work for me!
i am using vista 32 bit (?) and running the game in admin mode but i still cant change my resolution....
i tried this hack programm but i couldnt figure out how it works ;D
please help !
Greetz Eclipse :D

Lyon · Post by **Lyon** » 25 Sep 2007, 11:18

Great tool, but do you know what is causing the stuttering when using iron sights? It must be frustrating working with this engine :p but is there a possible solution in the works?

mastertheknife · Post by **mastertheknife** » 28 Sep 2007, 20:17

I've played BF2 on my 226BW today and was a little annoyed by the FOV. Your tool worked perfectly, however it wasn't much playable cause i'm a sniper and zooming feels jerky and difficult so i found myself toggling the hack on and off everytime i want to zoom..
Keep the great job and i'm really looking forward for the fixed version!

Chevy-SS · Post by **Chevy-SS** » 09 Oct 2007, 14:50

Great job dopefish! I'd be happy to pay for this, assuming it's got the last few bugs mostly worked out. As has been stated already by others, I'd want an option to auto-load, and no adverse impact to the zoom feature.

After it's tweaked, post it for download - at say - 10$ a copy, and I bet you can sell quite a few. There's hundreds of thousands of BF players and I bet half of them use widescreen monitors.

For BF2, I'm using a beautiful Dell 30" LCD at 2560x1600, and it really stinks that I substantially lose FOV as compared to a crappy 4:3 old-school monitor.

Heck man, I'm happy to PayPal you the 10$ right now, even if it never gets to finished stage. But I think you have the potential to maybe make a few bucks here, plus, there's nothing like some real financial compensation to motivate someone, lol..................... If you had finished product and "official" sign-off from PB, then I'd say it's time to go shopping for that new Z06 Corvette (or whatever).

8)

RoninPedroshin · Post by **RoninPedroshin** » 12 Oct 2007, 21:31

[quote]Great tool, but do you know what is causing the stuttering when using iron sights? It must be frustrating working with this engine :p but is there a possible solution in the works?

Nothing I can do. That's part of the engine. It will even do that if you don't use this fix or not. A simple test is to not load my fix at all and get out your assault rifle. Turn sideways pretty quick and use your iron sights while you're turning. You'll notice the skip or stutter. There really is nothing I can do about this. This is just the way the engine is.

As for the change when the FOV gets applied when you zoom in/out, I'm working on a solution for that that eliminates that altogether. It still won't fix the stuttering when you are moving and zoom in, though.

I think what he meant the zoom update. That when you use iron sights the game is about to use the VERT- screen mode for the iron sight view but immediatly the program corrects that view to HOR+. At least I think so since I don't notice any stutter when looking around zoomed.

You can notice this happening each time you go into iron sights view and that's what bothers a bit. Isn't there a way for the program to actually update everything at once instead of having to update each time you go into iron sights? Or is there a way I can set a lower value than 10?

ElectronicAlts · Post by **ElectronicAlts** » 14 Oct 2007, 22:13

Awesome hack, but I've begun to experience a problem with it. At first it worked fine, but recently it has begun to constantly turn itself on and off while ingame making it impossible to use.

Windows V · Post by **Windows V** » 16 Oct 2007, 05:14

Hi, first I'd like to thank you for your great work in getting the FOV corrected.

However, I'm having a problem. When I first downloaded your progam (1.05) and set it up, it worked perfectly. Ingame, I could adjust the FOV by pressing the * button.

However, the next I tried to play the game (about ten minutes later, relaunching the game after I had exited it before), I found that I could not turn the program on/off ingame with the * button. When I minimised the game and went to desktop, I was able to turn it on/off with *. However, upon returning to the game, the FOV had no effect - when I minimised the game to turn the widescreen program on and off, the game FOV did not change at all.

What happened?

dDub · Post by **dDub** » 24 Oct 2007, 03:30

I just released v1.06 of this program. It adjusts the FOV only when you're zoomed out. This gets rid of the panning problem when you zoom in. The only drawback is that when you zoom in, you are getting the horizontally and vertically cropped view. When you're zoomed out, you'll gain the extra horizontal viewing area, though. This should clear up a lot of problems for people and provide a more usable daily solution.

Widescreen Fixer v1.06

With this release dopefish -- brilliant! When enabled in-game it's nearly impossible to notice any change when zooming in, despite the horizontally and vertically cropped view. Hell, without specifically trying to note the zoomed crop i don't notice any difference (prolly cuz i'm used to the default cropping) which makes this app nearly flawless.

The "nearly" issue once again is only due to the fact that i need to use my default keyboard to hit the Keypad Asterisk button since the ZBoard doesn't have this button. Almost a non-issue but it would be nice to be able to choose the button... but if it's as a pain-in-the-ass to code as i imagine, no worries =P

fourpiesaresquare · Post by **fourpiesaresquare** » 24 Oct 2007, 04:50

I like it with the FOV cropped when zoomed. It makes it zoom farther! 8)

TheMadManTom · Post by **TheMadManTom** » 25 Oct 2007, 03:14

Hey... 1st i would like to say that i luv ur program and it is really the best !

2nd i have the follwing question :
Are you aware of any Punkbuster Problems recently ?
e.g. since 4 or 5 days ? I keep on getting kicked from servers with an aimbot violation msg. But i (really and honestly) dont have 1 installed.
so my thought was, it may be the widerscreenfixer which i keep running ...

Any thoughts on that ?!

Don't get me wrong... i am not complaining at all... just trying to limit down my possible problem.

cheers

Tom

dDub · Post by **dDub** » 25 Oct 2007, 06:17

Nope. No kicks here. If you're getting kicked for that, then I recommend checking your system for stuff.

If you get caught with an aimbot once, chances are you are always going to get kicked/banned for it.

Same here. Have yet to get kicked for anything "aimbot" related via PB, but i have been plagued at time by PB for.... well i dunno, it's just random with no message besides PUNKBUSTER and the 'losing key packets' in game. I've yet to narrow it down as nothing is consistent in the fix. You should try all the fixes in the forums and hope to have good like. PB is a bitch, even for non cheaters.

dopefish, as it is now the app is @ the 97% perfect level and if you were able to add both those updates into the app it would be flawless. Of course reaching 100% would be that WS was enabled native in game... so 99% is flawless. :D

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