Battlefield Modding Tutorials BFMODS

Gah! I bought a widescreen samsung 20" today since I've been borrowing my bro's 19" and he's moving. Normal work I do on the PC is great...but BF is of course stretched out a bit. I've tried messing with some videodefault.con and video.con settings, but its still stretched, to the point where it almost makes me sick to my stomach.

My bro has a 42" plasma for his monitor (lawl), and when he runs BF1942 its basically surrounded by black bars, and kept with a normal aspect ratio. Is there any way to force these settings?? I would be perfectly happy with black bars, so long as everything wasn't stretched.

Help!

there should be some settings for that with your graphics card, i think something like keep aspect ratio or sumthing.

Ah! I think I got it. There's actually a setting in the monitor control panel (the buttons on the side), and I could choose image size. I chose 'normal' instead of 'wide', and voila! 800x600 with bars on either side. I alt+f4'd to windows, and it was 1600x900. Sweeet.

goodie


there is some tricks to change some settings so it looks ok in wide to, i can see if i can find it if you want

It's something like, Settings/Profiles/Custom

video and videodeafault files in there. You open one of them and change the resolution line to what you want it to be and save. You only need to change one of them. Can't remember which one exactly.

I'll check when I get home.

You can change your field of view and stuff in there too.

http://www.tweaktown.com/guides/420/6/b ... index.html

Edit - Videocustom.con

I just set up my custom resolution in the Video.con of my profiles used (I have 1680x1050), and added fieldofview 1.1 to videodefault.con

Changing the video.con to the proper resolution makes the proportions working properly (no more fat guys etc. ), but the way BF42 applies resolutions you get a VERT- instead of a HOR+. That means instead of seeing more to the left and right (thus, a higher FOV), you see less up and down than 4:3 players...but you see everything bigger/zoomed in...

Changing fieldofview to 1.1 slightly counteracts this problem by increasing your left-right-FOV slightly. Best is to stand next to a straight line ingame and check if it is displayed straight. If it is distorted, your FOV setting is either too high or too low...

Also, you should try out a setting of 25 or 0.1 for fun . Then just enter a plane and fly around a bit. That will really get you sick . If the value is too high, camera will be turned upside down and every object will be displayed in very bad LODs due to the heavy distortions....and aircraft carriers seem to be several kilometres long

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