Widescreen Gaming Forum

Hi.

I'm trying to get American McGee's Alice to run in 1680x1050, but the solution to edit the config doesn't work at all for me. As soon as I start the game, all the lines that I added to the config disappears.

The config looks a bit messed up too. Is there some config editor that I'm supposed to use, or am I just incompatible?

Go to Alicebaseconfig.cfg

open it with wordpad and change the Lines too:

seta r_customheight "1050"
seta r_customwidth "1680"

Yes, that's what the detailed report says, but the config does not save what I edit. At all.

First, if it looks "messed up," try using Textpad to open it. Window's default Notepad only recognizes newlines that follow standard formatting, and it's possible that this file uses either non-standard format or Unix-style newlines.

Next, is your *desktop* set to 1680x1050?
Also, is it possible you're mixing up the height and the width? A lot of people do that by accident, especially for games where the config file puts height before the width.

I got it to work yesterday.

I hadn't done anything wrong at all (afaik) but it just wouldn't work.

Now it does work, all except the bind m to fov. That one is a big no-no.

The TextPad tip was great. Very good editor. Tnx alot.

I'm so confused. I loaded this game for my wife (she bought it a long time ago and never played it).

Then I loaded it and noticed it doesn't support widescreen.

We have a 23" monitor 1920 by 1080.

I looked for this config file and I can't find it. My computer is running Vista ultimate 64-bit.

There is no config file in the base directory?

Any ideas?

it is hidden. unhide everything.