Widescreen Gaming Forum

I just heard on the Gamefaqs boards that the full game still doesnt have widescreen support and doesnt offer higher resolutions than 1600x1200. I really cant believe such a game like this is being released like that. I was so excited to play this game at 2560x1600, imagine that! I dont know, the last hope would be that Avalanche releases a patch unless someone figures a way to enable that. Im truly disappointed, this sucks.

Edit: Btw, i really didn't think this was going to happen because if you guys take a look at the screenshots at ign.com, some of them are widescreen. So, who knows, there is an alternative way or something.

Hi Ruaviator,

Just edit the file "settings.txt" and set "pc_video_screen_resolution" to whatever you desire.

Please note: I do not know if the game sets the proper FOV yet, but in any case I am pretty sure that you can NOT change it manually.

Well, i tried that with the demo and another guy at the gamefaqs board tried that with the full version and still doesn't work. It seems that those resolutions are locked and there is no way to enable custom resolutions. Have u tried by yourself and it worked?

Well, for a start - the "game config" app doesnt allow you to select widescreen resolutions, im about to go ingame and see if you can select one in there...

Nope, no selection for WS, going to try the config edit suggested now.

ok, it appears to stretch, im running 2 monitors at the moment - the funny thing is, when i was playing it showed up fine on my left monitor and didnt appear to be stretched, but when i take a screenshot it shows it as a regular 4:3 image on the left monitor.

Screenshot:

http://www.oscwork.com/justcause.jpg

Edited by Paddywak : I removed the IMG code ... Please use thumbnails or reduce the size of your screenshots. Screenshots that are so big make it a bit of a pain to read the posts as you have to scroll left and right.

Hmm, so still no way to enable custom resolutions. Well, my only hope is that the same procedure that was done with Need for Speed Most Wanted and some other games to enable custom resolutions that the game doesnt support by standard is gonna happen with this game. Fingers crossed. :D

Ive found out its perfect on widescreen, just wont take screenshots properly - i edited the settings to 1440*900 (even though it worked the same with 1280*1024 selected) and got a photo of it, so you can compare WS to 4:3 above.

Photo:



Graphics are really nice and require hardly any processing power, most of its bloom to be honest, but it looks fancy.

Gameplay, im not too impressed so far - its a little too arcade for me, and a rather obvious console port, but ive only played the intro bit really.

K guys i got it working with Art Money

i followed this http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/node/#comment- how to use Art Money Tutorial to the T except in NFS you could change the res in game and for Just Cause you have to shut the game down and restart it. so after you do everything in the tutorial and you click save at the end of it youll click the just cause running at the bottom of your screen except for me i had a black bar running thru the middle of my screen so all i did was exit to the menu reloaded my save and voila black bar gone and running at 1440x900
and believe me you know when your running in your monitors native res.
next time you want to play the game just follow the instructions like it says and itll take just a couple minutes to get back to playing at your native res and not near the amount of time it took the first time. good luck guys i really hope this helped and if your patient and just follow that tutorial to the T you should be GTG. :D

Great news ... :D
Do you get any more width FOV or is it just the native res that you get ?
Could you post a couple of screenshots from the same place in the game ... one at 4:3 and one in widescreen ?

Thanks ... 8)

K guys i got it working with Art Money

i followed this http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/node/#comment- how to use Art Money Tutorial to the T except in NFS you could change the res in game and for Just Cause you have to shut the game down and restart it. so after you do everything in the tutorial and you click save at the end of it youll click the just cause running at the bottom of your screen except for me i had a black bar running thru the middle of my screen so all i did was exit to the menu reloaded my save and voila black bar gone and running at 1440x900
and believe me you know when your running in your monitors native res.
next time you want to play the game just follow the instructions like it says and itll take just a couple minutes to get back to playing at your native res and not near the amount of time it took the first time. good luck guys i really hope this helped and if your patient and just follow that tutorial to the T you should be GTG. :D

Just tried this myself and he's 100% correct, the game looks beautiful.

Having to exit the game every time is a bit of a pain, but no problem really. When you maximise back in for the last time, like he said, the screen is completly messed up. I had some kind of white blob. Just load/ start a new game and it's all fine again.

Here's a screenshot - CLICK HERE

And here's a quick video of the start of the game ... CLICK HERE

Awesome!

So ...

Great news ... :D
Do you get any more width FOV or is it just the native res that you get ?
Could you post a couple of screenshots from the same place in the game ... one at 4:3 and one in widescreen ?

Thanks ... 8)

BTW ... welcome to the WSGF ... eZ` ... 8)

lol well you can see theres more FOV.

But a bit of proof...

4:3 800x600



and 16:10 1680x1050 ... (re-scaled to same height as first shot)



You can see on the left that theres more of the land, that ring of land round the water. This is taken in pretty much exactly the same place. As identical as i could get em.

And thanks, ace forums really always got an answer on em as soon as i need it. :)

Edit.. Sorry i saw you edited sum1 elses post for big screenshots, i just thought having them on the page together makes them easier to compare. Edit it to links if you dont like them humungofying the forum ;p

Hey buddy ...
Thanks for the screenshots ... :D

In future just edit the widescreen one to have the same height as the first one or better still use thumbnails ... with links to the larger ones ... 8)

Ah, now you've said it that makes a whole lotta sense.
Noted!

On how the actual game is, you have to take it as it is. A gorgeous ARCADE game through fun and varied missions. In a half hour session you can be in a plane, helicopter, boat, shooting missiles from a car, and liberating a settlement.
Seriously fun, and completely unrealistic!

eZ just summed up the entire game :D Fun and very unrealistic, I myself prefer a little less of the arcade style gameplay, but its still fun.. and man is it pretty.

Also eZ, could you upload your artmoney save somewhere? I cant seem to get the values - ends up crashing my system or just not giving proper values at all.

If that's possible yeah .. ill zip it.

Click HERE for it.

Its worth a shot, cheers.

If that's possible yeah .. ill zip it.

Click HERE for it.

How do i use the file with the artmoney profile?

Can you list the steps? :shock:

Your better off making your own file, im working on a loader at the moment so bear with me ;)

uhmm...hmm.. well the editing of the config file does nothing. The artmoney program worked the second time I tried it, how ever as soon as I did the final edits, before even going into the game to see if it worked, I saved the profile. The hack worked but then I needed to quit out to set some graphic quality settings higher, and when I went back in, half the numbers in my saved config no longer matched up, nore did editing them force the resolution. Infact freezing the numbers caused the game to crash. Also the archive posted didnt work either, infact only 4 entrees in it reported back the current resolution.

Your better off making your own file, im working on a loader at the moment so bear with me ;)

Thanks for trying to make things easier :D