Widescreen Gaming Forum

Hey everyone at Widescreen Gaming Forum!

For years, I've been playing one of my favorite games ever created: Urban Chaos! It's probably the first "true" sandbox game, and it set the path for games like GTA. It works on all operating systems today, but unfortunately, it doesn't work with ATI's drivers. All of my Nvidia computers play the game fine. However, with my widescreen monitor, this game looks pixelated and just looks downright ugly. Does anyone know how I could get it to display my native widescreen resolution? I know Urban Chaos is a DirectX 7 based game. In terms of trying to get it to display using a widescreen resolution, I've tried the ureschanger patch, but it didn't work. I've looked for registry settings, but there are none, and this game was made in 1999. However, I have tried hex editing the fallen.exe executable, and I have found some entries regarding resolutions and settings. Here's my config file for the game:



I believe the video mode is set by the video_res=4 entry in the config.cfg file. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find where this setting is read or set. I can change a couple of numbers as to the video modes it will display on the launch screen, but it does not actually change the resolution; it only changes the text. If I could find the entry for video_res 4, I might be able to change it to 1920 x 1080. I've attached a couple of screenshots regarding what I've changed using the hex editor.

The executable can be downloaded here:

http://www.dinofly.com/files/urban_exe.zip

Can anyone help? There must be a way to play this game using a widescreen resolution. Any help is appreciated.

Attached files

This game is still one of my all time favorites, I have tried for a long time to get this to work in 1920 x 1080 but still no luck. I'll try to figure something out.

I'll try to figure something out.

Thanks, thats really nice. :twothumb

I modified exe file to support higher resolutions. Files available from the PC Gaming Wiki Community Files (search there)

For 4:3 resolutions
Supported resolutions:
1280x960
1400x1050
1600x1200
1920x1440
2048x1536

For 5:4 resolutions
Supported resolutions:
1280x1024

For 16:9 resolutions
Supported resolutions:
1280x720
1360x768
1366x768
1600x900
1920x1080

For 16:10 resolutions
Supported resolutions:
1152x720
1280x800
1440x900
1680x1050
1920x1200

I modified exe file to support higher resolutions:

Rage3D's jackfuste ? Welcome on board m8 ! :twothumb

I'll give it a shot tonight! Thanks a lot for this! I had lost all hope, until now! This is so cool. How did you do it? I had tried so hard myself.

Works perfectly. Thanks jackfuste! I really appreciate it! It would be cool if you could tell us what you did. :)

I'm in your debt...

Added a Detailed Report for this game, thanks again to jackfuste.