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I just got a Dell Studio 15 with a 1336 x 768 resolution, and the games look very stretched horizontally trying to fill the space. Is there any way I can shrink the x-axis resolution on the playscreen so the games don't look so stretched? Black bars are fine, I just don't want to see an oval for a minimap. Forgive me if this is an easy, stupid, or obvious question, but I'm not very familiar with the graphics part of a computer.

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You'll want to take a look at Dopefish's Widescreen Fixer here =
http://imk.cx/pc/widescreenfixer/

Read the full instructions :onethumb

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How do I edit the shortcut?

My shortcut is this: E:BF2BF2.exe +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1920 +szy 1200

Obviously yours will be different (like C:Program FilesEA Games...etc)
You edit it by right clicking on the shortcut and selecting 'properties'. Modify the target line to add the szx and szy that your resolution is.

Also the v1.5 patch for BF2 that is due very soon will include WS support and will negate the need for the fixer. If it is like the BF2142 support you still need to add the res to the properties to get it to work though.

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Got it working, though it's still stretched. It's squished from the top and bottom, not the two sides, so the thing didn't help much. Just allowed me to see more, but the circles are still ovals. I was hoping for something that would put some black bars on the side so the screen is square. I somehow got BF2 to open in a window where it was perfectly square and straight, but it was a bit too small.

They did a better job for BF2, editing the shortcut is unnecessary (1440x900 is my max res, the game has displayed bigger resolutions on bigger monitors):

Got it working, though it's still stretched. It's squished from the top and bottom, not the two sides, so the thing didn't help much. Just allowed me to see more, but the circles are still ovals. I was hoping for something that would put some black bars on the side so the screen is square. I somehow got BF2 to open in a window where it was perfectly square and straight, but it was a bit too small.

Widescreen Fixer changes the FOV so that it's not zoomed in when using a widescreen resolution. It does not prevent the HUD from stretching at all. With +widescreen 1, the game will display widescreen resolutions, but the HUD is still stretched even there.

If you want black bars, and you have a nVidia card, set the game to a 4:3 resolution, and then in the nVidia control panel set the monitor scaling to fixed-aspect ratio.

You can create a custom resolution if you want the 4:3 res to take up the whole vertical part without scaling vertically.

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