F1 Challenge 99-02
Posted: 20 Aug 2005, 07:55
Hello all:
Trying to pretend to be the Red Baron, I've began to play F1 Challenge (another one of those EA Sports games) and was wondering if there is a good native widescreen solution to it. In actuality, just by setting my 2005 FPW to stretch mode and then fiddling with the fov values in the games config files, the game looks pretty good. The pit crew look a bit chubbier, but the track looks good thanks to the wider fov and the cars look alright.
However, I saw that someone on the Matrox forums hacked the 3dconfig utility for F1C to give it Parhelia surround gaming resolutions (i.e. 3072x768 so that it fits on 3 1024x768 screens). How their last-gen Parhelias manage to run F1C at that resolution I don't know, hell even my GF 6800 chugs a bit at max res, but they seem pretty happy with the results.
I noticed that they still need to adjust the fov values to accomodate the resolution change to make things look good. So my question is: is their method fundamentally better than just using the stretch function on the 2005 monitor, or is their adding a new resolution to the game, then changing the fov basically the same as my stretch it and change the fov method? And if hacking into the 3dconfig to add a new resolution such as 1680x1050 is a better solution, then could someone give it a shot? Pretty please?
It might be easier to ask the guy who already hacked the file, maybe, but I was just lurking on their forums. They seem like friendly enough people, but maybe not when they find out I've got a gfx card made by the evil empire in my PC :lol: Also, this sort of a fix might apply to other EA sports games that everyone is clamoring about all the time.
That's all. Thanks for any comments or help from anyone, and meanwhile I'm going back to learning the Interlagos track before switching on the tube for the inaugral Turkey GP.
Later!
Trying to pretend to be the Red Baron, I've began to play F1 Challenge (another one of those EA Sports games) and was wondering if there is a good native widescreen solution to it. In actuality, just by setting my 2005 FPW to stretch mode and then fiddling with the fov values in the games config files, the game looks pretty good. The pit crew look a bit chubbier, but the track looks good thanks to the wider fov and the cars look alright.
However, I saw that someone on the Matrox forums hacked the 3dconfig utility for F1C to give it Parhelia surround gaming resolutions (i.e. 3072x768 so that it fits on 3 1024x768 screens). How their last-gen Parhelias manage to run F1C at that resolution I don't know, hell even my GF 6800 chugs a bit at max res, but they seem pretty happy with the results.
I noticed that they still need to adjust the fov values to accomodate the resolution change to make things look good. So my question is: is their method fundamentally better than just using the stretch function on the 2005 monitor, or is their adding a new resolution to the game, then changing the fov basically the same as my stretch it and change the fov method? And if hacking into the 3dconfig to add a new resolution such as 1680x1050 is a better solution, then could someone give it a shot? Pretty please?
It might be easier to ask the guy who already hacked the file, maybe, but I was just lurking on their forums. They seem like friendly enough people, but maybe not when they find out I've got a gfx card made by the evil empire in my PC :lol: Also, this sort of a fix might apply to other EA sports games that everyone is clamoring about all the time.
That's all. Thanks for any comments or help from anyone, and meanwhile I'm going back to learning the Interlagos track before switching on the tube for the inaugral Turkey GP.
Later!
