Widescreen Gaming Forum

Hey guys. I have a problem - I can't get BF2 to run in wide screen. I tried:

- Modding the CFG file in my documents to rez of 1680x1050
- modding my shortcut to "P:Battlefield 2BF2.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1680+szy 1050
- Modding both at the same time
- Uninstalling and re-installing the game and trying all steps again
- deleting the video.cfg file and leaving the shortcut modded

none of these settings work. my system is fairly good.

7800gt
amd 64 3200
2gb OCZ 3200
my monitor is a viewxonic 2025wx 20.1 inch widescreen

Any suggestions? Please help.


Edit: I forgot to say that whenever I modd the shortcut it tells me my monitor is out of range. I am SURE my monitor supports 1680 by 1050 as all my other games work just great.

maybe just a typo but you need a space between 1680 and the +

Yes, I did that.... nothing happened.

K. guys, I got it to work, thank god. I read throught he forums for like 2 hours.

What I did, was take someone's advice and switch my DVI connector to my other DVI output. For some reason it worked. Can someone explain why?

Anyway. thank you for the help.

I just bought a Viewsonic VX2025wm and also get those "Out of range" messages with my 7900 GT. I was so looking forward to Battlefield 2 at 1680 x 1050.

If *anyone* knows *anything* that can help I'd be eternally grateful (switching DVI port only results in a black screen).

video.con file in your documents and settings, delete that and see what error's you get.

Makes no difference I'm afraid, just reverets to 800 x 600.

you make sure your HZ was down to 60hz?

Well, I'm thinking that could be the problem - BF2 is trying to launch at 1680 x 1050 @ 75hz which isn't supported. That's the only reason I can think for an "out of range message" (apart from the sesolution being to high).

Is there any way I can check that screen is not trying to run at anything higher than 60hz? Or better yet, can i *force* BF2 to launch at 1680 x 1050 @ 60hz?

by using the hack in the config files you should be able to.

Go to your documents/BF2 folder/config.con or something

in there you should find it. I'm at work otherwise I'd post mine.

No sorry, that doesn't work either - the game just crashes to the desktop. Peh, what a pain, and the worst bit is that I'm getting used to things looking stretched now.

Try this ...
I think the problem is that the game makes more than one video.con ... :wink:

Do a search for ... video.con ... delete all that you find ... the game should re-create them once you start the game.

Then once it is working try changing it to your desired res via the shortcut.

This ...
"C:Program FilesEA GAMESBattlefield 2BF2.exe"
becomes ...
"C:Program FilesEA GAMESBattlefield 2BF2.exe" +menu 1 +widescreen 1 +szx 1680 +szy 1050

Hey guys,
I am new here. I just bought a Dell 2407 monitor (A02 revision) and I got a problem with BF2.

BF2 worked fine before using this monitor.

I loaded the BF2 SF game for the first time since using the 2407. Went into video setting to change the resolution to 1600x1200 @ 60 hz. I tryed connecting to a multiplayer game, chose a bf2 standard map so the game restarted to load bf2. Then it crashed upon showing the central Bf2 loading square. and now it crashes at that point everytime I try to load either bf2 or sf.

I tryed deleting video.con files and it didnt work so i restored them. I tryed disdabling aspect scaling on my ati control pannel for my x800 platinum card, didnt work. I tryed using a desktop resolution of 1600 x1200 @ 60 hz instead of 1900x1200 like i am running now: didnt work either

Any ideas?

BTW, great website, it convinced me of going Widescreenh.

how much ram do you have. it sounds like its crashing b/c there is not enough ram.

i heard the 1.3 patch made it even worst.

I have 2 gigs of Kingston 400 Mhz DDR ram.
Athlon 64 bit, 2,250 MhZ
Asus a8V deluxe MB

I doubt I am missing RAM as the game worked fine when I was using a gig of Kingston Hyper X 433 Mhz. I have played the game since then and it worked fine with 2 gigs as well.

It might be a corrupt profile? Or a scaling issue?

I fixed the problem temporarly by deleting a single video.con file in my profile instead of all of them. I then changed the resolution in game to 1280 x 1024. Now it crashes still. (I deleted the same video.con file and it still crashes.) Go figure.

EDIT: i redeleted the file and rebooted and it loaded the game at 1600x1200. then i set the game at 1280 x1024 play a match, quit the game, try and reload the game, same error. Weird.

That's crazy. What's up with this game? I have a Dell 2405 and I run Battlefield 2 (latest 1.3 patch, on XP 64 no less) in 1600x1200 and I've never had any problems from the game. I've never had to mess with config files or delete anything. I have my 7800GTX set to monitor scaling and my Dell 2405 set to aspect scaling. Works fine.


Also, I would NOT recommend running BF2 at 1600x1200 on an X800, unless you really want to crank settings down (don't even try AA at that res). BF2 is very unfriendly to any video card that's not current-gen. Maybe that's changed with the patches, but when the game came out I found that unless you have a 6800 Ultra or the best X850 you couldn't run the game at high settings, and even with those two cards you had to keep AA off at 1600x1200. Current gen cards seem to handle the game really well though, my 7800GTX runs it very smoothly at 1600x1200, maxed settings, 4x AA, and 16x AF...

Im able to run 1920x1200 on my 2407WFP with my 7800GTX, high settings and low AA and AF.

All i done was delete the video.con files, then edit the shortcut to 1920x1200 widescreen, and it works fine.

cheers paddy for that by the way :)

Yeah my video card is getting a bit old, but it worked fine before trying to use the 2407.

I just bought a Viewsonic VX2025wm and also get those "Out of range" messages with my 7900 GT. I was so looking forward to Battlefield 2 at 1680 x 1050.

If *anyone* knows *anything* that can help I'd be eternally grateful (switching DVI port only results in a black screen).

I read from ALOT of people that they have scaling issues with LCD's and 7900GT cards (the 7900 line up in general) I dont think there's a fix yet :(