Widescreen resolutions

**Dago Red** · January 06, 2010, 07:24 PM

MTW2 support 1920 x 1080?

After 7 years i finally had to buy a new monitor and discovered that you cannot even find a 4:3 aspect monitor in stores now. That was fine since I wanted a 16:9 widescreen anyway but my choices were limited. First I tried a 20" @ 1600 x 900 and everything looked like absolute junk... could barely read any text on ETW (APE :TI)... there's just not enough DPI across those 20"

So I went in for a hi def 21.5 @ 1920 x 1080. Just an extra 1.5 inches but so many more pixels! And it worked... kind of. I've found that MTW2's interface doesn't even seem to support such a high res.... the text is legible and the map looks good but the UI/windows/unit cards/etc are just swollen and blown up to fit the huge screen... is there a way to fix this?

Or a mod that has addressed it?

**irishron** · January 06, 2010, 08:31 PM

When you start the game, in the options, under video, there is a wide screen box you can check.

In medieval2.preferences.cfg, there is a widescreen entry that can be set to 1.

If I remeber right , the last time I installed teh game the was an 16:9 option.

**Dago Red** · January 07, 2010, 12:40 AM

Originally Posted by irishron

When you start the game, in the options, under video, there is a wide screen box you can check.

In medieval2.preferences.cfg, there is a widescreen entry that can be set to 1.

If I remeber right , the last time I installed teh game the was an 16:9 option.

Ah yes i've checked the widescreen box, but the game interface is as i described.... I will look into this preferences file though and see what different values do I guess...

Do you knwo what setting it to "1" means exactly?

thanks!

**irishron** · January 07, 2010, 08:29 AM

Setting widescreen = 1 forces the game into widescreen mode.

Unfortunately, as the game is older than widescreens, how the iu shows up on screen is all this game has to offer.

**Dago Red** · January 07, 2010, 02:11 PM

Hmm, I am having trouble saving the file with notepad after changing the value from 0 to 1.

Perhaps I already have everything the best it can be, but if you have any suggestions on how to force this .cfg fil to save after editing, lemme know! Thanks again.