Custom Screen Resolution

[Swaffy]

Instead of 800x600 resolution, can I edit it to be 1600x1200?
I'm hoping it can make the game have somewhat better graphics...

[Senshi]

That's quite a basic...Google ftw.

I'm surprised you never did that change before. It's usually one of the things people change long before they start modding. Especially because of windowed mode...

http://www.widescreengaming.net/wiki/Battlefield_1942

[Swaffy]

Oh. Wait, didn't you just post that somewhere else?

[Edit] I read the line ...
game.setGameDisplayMode 1440 900 32 60

What does the "32" and "60" mean?

[archer]

The first one is the color depth: 32 gives you more colors, 16 should give you a few more FPS at the cost of image quality.
Beware: Changing the second number to invalid values may damage your screen.
The second one is the refresh rate. If you have an LCD screen, you should stay with 60, if you have a CRT screen, read its manual to determine supported refresh rates.

As a curiosity, under the rules of Battlefield 1942 Leauge, using the method from WideScreenGaming is considered cheating. While I can't think of any reason why just increasing your resolution would be bad, changing the aspect ratio (and thus field of view) definetly gives you an unfair advantage of seeing more than the others.

[Swaffy]

Well, I changed the "800 600" to "1600 1200" but nothing happened. So that idea fell in the toilet.

[archer]

You probably don't use the "Custom" profile. You have to edit Battlefield 1942\Mods\bf1942\Settings\Profiles\<your profile name>\Video.con
You can recognize that you are editing the right file when the numbers say your actual resolution chosen from the options menu, instead of the default 800x600.

[freddy]

in my case i usually have to set the video.con to write protected or the game resets the values. even tho (on win xp) my game did put a video.con in my documents folder and reset the values there, a change there to and write protect on that file to and it finally worked. it doesnt do this on my win7 tho.

edit: lol! just checked and there is a bf42 folder in my documents here on win7 to, it doesnt seem to affect anything tho.

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rem *** Generated ***

game.setGameDisplayMode 640 480 16 60