Posted April 15, 200916 yr Question: How do I run Battlefield 2 Project Reality on my widescreen monitor? Answer: The ingame video settings does not include widescreen resolution settings. The solution is to make a custom shortcut. Create a shortcut by right clicking and selecting New > New Shortcut Use the following as your location of target. "C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe" +modPath mods/pr +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +widescreen 1 +szx 1680 +szy 1050" "F:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe" +modPath mods/pr +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +widescreen 1 +szx 1680 +szy 1050" +modPath mods/pr - Runs to Project Reality mod contained in the folder /Battlefield 2/mods/pr. +fullscreen 1 - Runs the game in fullscreen. Change the 1 to a 0 to play in windowed mode. +widescreen - Expends the field of view of what the player can see. This is the reason people call widescreen gamers, cheaters. +szx 1680 - The X axis of your resolution. Change the 1680 to yours. +szy 1050 - The Y axis of your resolution. Change the 1050 to yours. Edit: To get BF2 to match the aspect ratio of your monitor try Widescreen Fixer. Use the installer. Once the fixer is open, select Battlefield 2 1.40 - 1.41 and launch BF2 PR. Join a server and spawn on the map. Now press the ' ; ' (Semi-colon). You should see a difference . Found this little program on the PR website. http://imk.cx/pc/widescreenfixer/ Its not officially approved, but EA and Evenbalance are aware of it and said you wont be kicked by PB gives you a wider FOV. May be worth checking out. i'll be trying this tonight, but if anyone else wants to give it a go let me know what its like. This is an example of what it does. http://imk.cx/pc/widescreenfixer/comparison.jpg Edited April 15, 200916 yr by Neville Fuckin' Bartos [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
April 15, 200916 yr We have had a number of threads about how to do this but seen how yours is so accurately named and simple I guess I'll sticky it for you. http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/VisOne_Photo/Signatures%20and%20Banners/VisP.png
April 15, 200916 yr +widescreen - Expends the field of view of what the player can see. This is the reason people call widescreen gamers, cheaters. roarr ban roarrrr... (secretly edits bf2.exe)... raoor ban ban raoor http://www.bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/spambot.bmp http://www.bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/whatthe.bmp The Bee Zed Zed
April 15, 200916 yr +widescreen - Expends the field of view of what the player can see. This is the reason people call widescreen gamers, cheaters. I have been running 1680*1050 for a while. It's not really that much of an advantage. I suppose the whole "peripheral vision" thing where the fog is lifted could be useful but as most of the action happens in the center of your screen, widescreen just makes stuff look prettier. All my soldiers and scopes were somewhat squat and chubby @ 1280*1024. "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
April 15, 200916 yr Author We have had a number of threads about how to do this but seen how yours is so accurately named and simple I guess I'll sticky it for you. Its not like asked for a sticky . It was just hard to find it in the search. So I started my own. Spread the love! . Edited April 15, 200916 yr by Neville Fuckin' Bartos [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
April 15, 200916 yr I don't believe you get any extra vision, there is no widescreen support in bf2. It just stretches the image. You won't notice it on PR, but on vanilla it is easy to spot as your minimap is slightly distorted (slight oval shape). [sIGPIC]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e176/Bundy_BE4R/nsofbundy2.jpg[/sIGPIC]http://www.combatsimsint.com/images/csi-gallery-header.jpg
April 15, 200916 yr Why not take it one step further and get the short cut to skip and videos and automatically login for you. "C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe" +modPath mods/PR +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1680 +szy 1050 +playerName whitty91 +playerPassword ****** +restart 1 put your password were the ***** and it will do it for you. Whitty91 [WC] Lieutenant ----http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/4300/usarmyltgf2.gif http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/opagamahons.jpghttp://img403.imageshack.us/img403/4816/sniper.pnghttp://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/medicalspecialist.bmphttp://img210.imageshack.us/img210/7617/generalsilverstar20tl0.png
April 15, 200916 yr I don't believe you get any extra vision, there is no widescreen support in bf2. It just stretches the image. You won't notice it on PR, but on vanilla it is easy to spot as your minimap is slightly distorted (slight oval shape). Going to widescreen with the shortcut/log-in properties as above *stopped* things from being distorted/oval on my machine... it seems to have given them their proper proportions. Widescreen (supported or not) does not help all that much because by the time you can see them they most certainly have seen you anyway and you are likely under fire. That said, again - it makes things look nicer on a widescreen monitor because things are not stretched and squashed anymore (on my system, anyway). "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
April 15, 200916 yr Fix your field of view with Widescreenfixer: http://www.imk.cx/pc/widescreenfixer/Widescreen%20Fixer%20v1.32%20Installer.exe Gives you the correct FOV for 16:10 or 16:9 http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee94/psyrus_uraya/awards-1.png QFT: Your computer is smart man. It tells you not to play the second worst PR map [burning Sands] (first is Wanda Shan). QFT: if you dont get pissed off when you lose you dont care enough
April 15, 200916 yr http://www.bigdgaming.net/showthread.php?t=3039&highlight=Widescreen http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff136/paulwar_photos/735c4e74-282e-49b6-99c3-6c443f8c759f.jpg MSI970A Gaming Pro Carbon - AMD FX-8350 - 12GBytes - GTX 750 Ti 2GBytes
April 15, 200916 yr Author Nothing looks squished on my screen without usng that exe program. Mines 16:10. What exactly does the program change. I like to understand what programs do exactly to my games. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
April 15, 200916 yr Nothing looks squished on my screen without usng that exe program. Mines 16:10. What exactly does the program change. I like to understand what programs do exactly to my games. http://imk.cx/pc/widescreenfixer/comparison.jpg http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee94/psyrus_uraya/awards-1.png QFT: Your computer is smart man. It tells you not to play the second worst PR map [burning Sands] (first is Wanda Shan). QFT: if you dont get pissed off when you lose you dont care enough
April 15, 200916 yr http://imk.cx/pc/widescreenfixer/comparison.jpg Psyrus... you boffin. "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
April 15, 200916 yr Well. The program works great and so does the widescreen fixer. Thanks. getting mad for peoples amusement
April 23, 200916 yr Sweet thanks for this! http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/VisOne_Photo/shuffle34.jpg “No point in mentioning these bats, I thought. Poor bastard will see them soon enough.” Raoul Duke.
April 23, 200916 yr Sorry I can't do the diagram thing but here is what it does for me: Original 1440 x 900 - ?? http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t136/varan92/screen032.jpg Widescreen Fixer 1440 x 900 - 16:10 http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t136/varan92/screen033.jpg http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t136/varan92/sc_ii_2.png
April 23, 200916 yr Doh.. Just figured out up till now I had been running widescreen fixer and never pushed the ";" key, so never enabled it.. slaps head in disgust! Can't wait to give it a proper go over weekend! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
April 23, 200916 yr Well apparently the new BF2 patch 1.50 has wide screen options anyway so we won't have to worry about this for much longer. http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/VisOne_Photo/Signatures%20and%20Banners/VisP.png
April 23, 200916 yr Well apparently the new BF2 patch 1.50 has wide screen options anyway so we won't have to worry about this for much longer. Nope... all it does is do the exact same thing as +szx & +szy... which means the FOV will still be screwed up. http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee94/psyrus_uraya/awards-1.png QFT: Your computer is smart man. It tells you not to play the second worst PR map [burning Sands] (first is Wanda Shan). QFT: if you dont get pissed off when you lose you dont care enough
April 23, 200916 yr Well that eats balls dam you EA dam you all to hell. Edited April 25, 200916 yr by chambersAUS http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/VisOne_Photo/Signatures%20and%20Banners/VisP.png
June 14, 200915 yr Well apparently the new BF2 patch 1.50 has wide screen options anyway so we won't have to worry about this for much longer. You posted: 24th April 2009 Its almost July DAMN EA! Edit: I have a question, can/should I run the Fixer with "+fullscreen 1 +widescreen 1 +szx 1680 +szy 1050" in the shortcut? Edited June 14, 200915 yr by Tactical_Kiwi http://www.clan-tea.com/sigs/flames/Poncho-Temp.png Orders starting with SOMEBODY usually wind up being completed by NOBODY.
June 14, 200915 yr Just make a copy of the short cut before you try it,so if it doesn't work you can use the original one. http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee118/bahlye/bahlye007/mouse_zps73307fb2.gif
June 14, 200915 yr You posted: 24th April 2009 Its almost July DAMN EA! Edit: I have a question, can/should I run the Fixer with "+fullscreen 1 +widescreen 1 +szx 1680 +szy 1050" in the shortcut? That's what they said about the 1.41 BF2142 patch supposedly having 'widescreen options' my rear end it did. It doesn't do much then, and EA is going to still screw up the WS option on the 1.5 patch as well. Call sign: 'GLORIA' Me: Boss, So you're dead dead down dead? Buzzsnr: Yes, I'm down down dead down. Dead.
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