Widescreen Gaming Forum

I've recently been playing Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 and have been having some problems. This is the older retail version, NOT the steam version. Game is patched. I'm running Vista 32 and am using nHancer to run the game on a single GPU (8800GTX) and one CPU core. My problem is that although it seems to have native widescreen support, every time I try and play it widescreen the game crashes. I can play it at 1920 x 1200, but only with view size set to half. If I try and change the view size to full (fills up whole screen), the game just crashes. 3D acceleration is also off (Graphics are very glitchy if it is on). I love this game and if anyone knows how to get this running in beautiful 1920 x 1200 that would be amazing. Thanks!

I don't know if there is a clear solution, the game is just old and finnicky. For me personally it runs great at 1080p with no real tweaks or anything at all. This is on Win7 64 on a GTX 275.

Are you using the latest WHQL drivers? That is what I am using.

Also, I am playing in "3D"... should work fine on those drivers as well, but of course it all depends on conflicts and such.

did you try changing the resolution before you loaded the map? It didn't work for me personally...but on the steam forums I've heard a few success stories like that. I know you have retail, but i doubt there would be a difference in those regards.

Yah I've tried changing it before I load. It doesn't make a difference. It still crashes.

Steam forced the menus to run in windowed mode because of compatability issues... maybe that is what you are experiencing. Try running in windowed mode?

Well I got it working. I just downgraded my nvidia drivers to 186.18 and that seemed to do the trick. Can play widescreen with 3D acceleration no problem now :)

Well I got it working. I just downgraded my nvidia drivers to 186.18 and that seemed to do the trick. Can play widescreen with 3D acceleration no problem now :)

What drivers were you using? I asked before and you never answered... the latest WHQL's work fine with the game for me.

I think it was 190.38. It may have been the newest ones but I must have deleted the executable so I'm not exactly sure