Widescreen Gaming Forum

Hi, is possible to change or patch resotution to widescrean?
1680x1050 or 1024x768

Caesar II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_II

Caesar III
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_III

The Settlers II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Settlers_II

The Settlers III
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlers_3

The Settlers IV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Settlers_IV

nobody can help? :?:

Until someone with the games has the chance to dig around in them to look... no one can help. :(

I've not got any of them. Well, actually, I think I've got Settlers III somewhere, but I've not got a clue exactly where it is.

I only got "the settlers 2 10th anniversary edition"
best game in the series for me
though I have not played it since acquiring my widescreen because the vert- really impairs the total view of the field

just got a shot at looking through files
and it seems there's a few xml files in a "settings" folder but unfortunately they are encrypted...
so unless someone knows how to decrypt them .... no luck here

I am glad of it at least some hope

I messed around with the Settlers IV demo and I may have come up with a solution. If you'd test it out for me with the full game I'd appreciate it.

To add widescreen support to this game you'll need a hex editor such as Be.HexEditor. Open your gfxengine.dll file (located in the Settlers IVExe directory) with the editor and search for the following string:

00 05 00 00 bb 00 04 00 00




00 04 and 00 03 represent the resolution 1024x768. Change it to whatever resolution you need.

1024x600 - Replace 00 04 with 00 04 and replace 00 03 with 58 02
1280x720 - Replace 00 04 with 00 05 and replace 00 03 with D0 02
1280x800 - Replace 00 04 with 00 05 and replace 00 03 with 20 03
1366x768 - Replace 00 04 with 56 05 and replace 00 03 with 00 03
1440x900 - Replace 00 04 with A0 05 and replace 00 03 with 84 03
1680x1050 - Replace 00 04 with 90 06 and replace 00 03 with 1A 04
1920x1080 - Replace 00 04 with 80 07 and replace 00 03 with 38 04
1920x1200 - Replace 00 04 with 80 07 and replace 00 03 with B0 04

Save the file and change your in-game resolution to 1024x768.

I've tested it in 1280x720 and 1280x768 and it seemed to work fine. It's pixel based, so the higher the resolution, the more game area is rendered.

Unfortunately the HUD also seems to be pixel based, so the smaller the vertical resolution, the less of the HUD you'll see. The HUD is designed around 1024x768, with 800x600 having one section cut off, and 1280x1024 having an empty section tacked on. So as long as your vertical resolution is 768 or higher, you should see it all. If your vertical resolution is higher than 1024, though, it may do something funky with it, so let me know. If it's between 600 and 768 (like 1280x720 for example) it cuts off part of the bottom section.

1024x768 (4:3)


1280x768 (16:10)


I'll look at the Settlers 3 demo later. I had a copy of Caesar II but I can't seem to find it. I sure hope I didn't toss it out.

[Edit]

I tested it in 1440x900 and it works as well, though that computer is newer and the message boxes are sometimes black (but that happens with the normal resolutions as well so it's probably not an issue with the fix).

try Caesar 3

Caesar 3 Portable.rar (72.29 MB)

thanx for advice for Settlers 4 wide i tested it on Gold Edition works perfectly

I can confirm that this works for 1920x1080 apart from a small bug in the extra space under the panel. Other than that it works great.

Hello!

It doesn't work for me. My native resolution is 1440 x 900, but when I change to that I can only see the cruisor changing between the resolutions over a black background untill i terminate the game. The only widescreen resolution working is 1280 x 720, and that's to narrow for my screen. I've tried with other resolutions at that ratio (1440 x 810) but that doesn't work either.

I have a GeForce 9600M GT card and Vista 32 bit, and compablilty modes doesn't resolve the issue. Could it perhaps be related to the black box problem?

It would be really nice if someone could give me some tips!
/Gösta