Does BF2 support 1280x 1024(LCD)

[nealh]

I just installed the game....but when I go to video settings..I see max setting of 1280x960.....

I really hate to run my LCD in incorrect resolution....

 

[goota]

click on properties on the shortcut and paste this into the target box.

"+szx 1280 +szy 1024"

 

[Bateluer]

BF2's default resolutions suck. Honestly, this is 2005, lacking out of box support for any resolution below 2k x 1.5k is unacceptable.

 

[imported_DarkPenguin]

Or you can have your video drivers center incorrect resolutions rather than resize the screen. You'll have a 32 pixel border on the top and bottom of the screen. Hard to notice.

 

[Tremulant]

Originally posted by: DarkPenguin
Or you can have your video drivers center incorrect resolutions rather than resize the screen. You'll have a 32 pixel border on the top and bottom of the screen. Hard to notice.

I don't think you can do that with ATi drivers.

I know you can with Nvidia, but I never could do it with my 9800 Pro (even with updated drivers).

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: DarkPenguin
Or you can have your video drivers center incorrect resolutions rather than resize the screen. You'll have a 32 pixel border on the top and bottom of the screen. Hard to notice.

That might be a better option. I think I'll check that on mine.

 

[nealh]

thanks..I will give these ideas a try

not sure on the one since I am using ATI X800XL..although I use Omega drivers..may need to go back and install the res app he has

 

[Auric]

Oh dear not again.

There is no incorrect resolution but a maximum just as with a CRT. A 1280x1024 application forced to fill a 4:3 CRT results in distortion (horizontal stretching) just as a 1280x960 application forced to fill a 5:4 LCD results in distortion (vertical stretching). The BF series only supports 4:3 so 1280x960 is correct and allowing or forcing it to stretch to the maximum on a 5:4 LCD will be incorrect.

Many panels do not offer scaling options. ATI and NVIDIA do offer driver scaling options when connected by DVI (limited and comprehensive, respectively). For ATI, it may be disabled from the Displays Tab under the FPD button.

For whatever reason, some folks choose to force cropping and/or stretching simply to fill a given screen area (can you say Pan & Scan?). But I don't see the point, especially when the image size is large enough in the unmolested aspect ratio. Even with an analog panel sans scaling options one may as well let the panel stretch for "free" rather than burdening the graphics system with it. But really, how can blank space bother one more than Distort-O-Vision?

 

[nealh]

but doesnt running an incorrect resolution affect the panel...my panel does not natively support 1280 x 960...

I am ignorant on this issue..sorry

 

[Auric]

Using less than the maximum addressable pixels will not harm it.

 

[nealh]

thank you

 

[erikistired]

Originally posted by: Auric
Using less than the maximum addressable pixels will not harm it.

however it doesn't look nearly as good...

 

[Auric]

Originally posted by: fisher

Originally posted by: Auric
Using less than the maximum addressable pixels will not harm it.

however it doesn't look nearly as good...

I contend that it looks as good as possible -i.e. original, unmolested and perfect.

Please explain the reasoning that it doesn't.

 

[ahurtt]

Originally posted by: goota
click on properties on the shortcut and paste this into the target box.

"+szx 1280 +szy 1024"

Ok here's the question on this solution. . .Does doing this actually cause BF 2 to really run the game at a true 1280 x 1024 or does it just cause the game to stretch the 1280 x 960 image vertically to fill the extra space? Or I guess in other words, are you really any better off by doing this than by just running the game at 1280x960 and letting your monitor scale the image to take up the whole screen? I just wonder because somebody else stated that BF 2 only really supports resolutions of 4:3 and not 5:4. I think I would rather have small black bands at the top and bottom of the screen than have the game image stretched vertically to take up the whole screen.