Wide Screen Support?

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Has anyone managed to get Battlefield 1942 running at 1920 x 1080 resolution? It's not an available option for this older game.

I just picked up a new high-res HD monitor with a native resolution of 1920 x 1080. I'm driving it with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti video card. I've done a bunch of online searching and found recommendations to edit the video.con and videocustom.con files, but the game runs at 800 x 600 even after editing those files to use "game.setGameDisplayMode 1920 1080 32". Any thoughts?

-- Mon Mar 31, 2014 9:26 pm --

I found something that seems to work:

http://www.wsgf.org/dr/battlefield-1942" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

There's a 7Zip archive in the "Solutions & Issues" section that contains some modified DLLs and a modified version of BF1942.exe that includes additional resolution values. All seems to be working fine after installing those mods and selecting the appropriate resolution. My desktop icons sometimes get scrambled after running the game, but I can live with that.

[[JiF]ALargeWoodenBadger]

1280x960 32bit 60hz is the best I've been able to achieve (my monitor resolution is 1920 x 1080 (16:9)). I know this is still a 4:3 resolution but I've never been able to get the others working.

I found instructions similar to what you've noted but with a little more detail at http://www.widescreengaming.net/wiki/Battlefield_1942


Good luck.