Battlefield 1942 and Surround Gaming (Update for Retail)

[gordo-uk]

Originally posted by R0M
That is very weird, ok try this, delete all the profiles in the game. Exit then edit video.con and change it back to 2400 600 0 and then run the game. Click on Singleplay or Multiplay and let me know if it works,

Regards,

Thanks I shall try that tonight.

[Gotcha]

I'll try it and let you know thanks rom.

[albatorsk]

I just tried with "2400 800 16 0" and the game ran in TH. It's just that neither the "HUD" nor the briefing screen works well in TH. They are very garbled, to the point where it's hard to read the map. Is that normal?

[gordo-uk]

Originally posted by albatorsk
I just tried with "2400 800 16 0" and the game ran in TH. It's just that neither the "HUD" nor the briefing screen works well in TH. They are very garbled, to the point where it's hard to read the map. Is that normal?

Well Fk me sideways on a windy day.

Any 16Bit colour TH res works, 2400x600, 3072x768, but not 32Bit, now I am completely confused, would someone like to explain all that to me!

[DGhost]

Originally posted by albatorsk
I just tried with "2400 800 16 0" and the game ran in TH. It's just that neither the "HUD" nor the briefing screen works well in TH. They are very garbled, to the point where it's hard to read the map. Is that normal?

are you running Windows XP SP1? if so then yes, it is. this has been covered in several other threads and i believe Matrox is looking into the problem already.

if you are not running SP1 i dunno what the problem would be.

[R0M]

Huh,
It shouldn't make a difference if it's 16-bit or 32-bit. I don't understand why you guys are having so much difficulty, are all people with problems running XP with SP1? Let me know,

Thanks,

[gordo-uk]

Originally posted by R0M
Huh,
It shouldn't make a difference if it's 16-bit or 32-bit. I don't understand why you guys are having so much difficulty, are all people with problems running XP with SP1? Let me know,

Thanks,

I have not installed SP1 yet, all other updates from windows update are installed though. My XP Pro is a fairly new installation as I got a new hard drive a month ago so every thing is nice and clean, no excess crap.

Apart from loads of games the only other software on my PC is:-

Word 2002
Paint Shop Pro
McAfee Anti-Virus (I did disabled this during my testing).

When I get home tonight I will do a full audit of hardware/drivers and games/software and post it back here, just in case there is some weird combination or something thats tripping this up.

Maybe the others with the same problem can do the same, just in case there is some 'common ground' in our setup's.

[Gotcha]

Im running windows with that new sp1 patch. It doesnt matter, I can get it to run in triple head. I tried un installing and re installing, changed to every res setting and nothing works for me. I have the new game patch and nothing. Im completely lost. I really dont know where I can get that 1900 x ??????? what ever resolution as mentioned above. Whats that all about?

Thanks

[gordo-uk]

Originally posted by Gotcha
Im running windows with that new sp1 patch. It doesnt matter, I can get it to run in triple head. I tried un installing and re installing, changed to every res setting and nothing works for me. I have the new game patch and nothing. Im completely lost. I really dont know where I can get that 1900 x ??????? what ever resolution as mentioned above. Whats that all about?

Thanks

1920x480 is 640x480 on each screen, you wont see any TH res's in the in game menu.

Best thing to do is dump the lot, re-install (full install) then apply the patch, do NOT run apptimizer, run the game, when it gets to the menu, just exit.

edit with notepad, video.con which is in your:-

\Battlefield 1942\settings\profiles\custom

Folder, change this line:-

game.setGameDisplayMode 800 600 32 0

To this:-

game.setGameDisplayMode 1920 480 32 0

Save the file, start up BF1942 do NOT select a profile when the menu starts up, just hit singleplayer, nothing else, then choose a quick battle and it should load up in TH.

If that works, edit the video.con file again with this:-

game.setGameDisplayMode 3072 768 16 0

and see if that works, if it does, you have the same problem as me.

The key thing is to remember only press either the single player or multi player buttons when the game menu starts up.

[gordo-uk]

My full pc audit:-

Matrox Graphic Card: Parhelia
Model #: retail
MGA Bios version: 1.0-4
Motherboard and chipset: Asus A7N266-C (Nforce 415, nvidia drivers 1.13)
CPU: AMD XP1800
Motherboard Bios: 1003
OS: Windows XP Pro (Fully updated with Windows Update, but SP1 NOT installed)
Hard Drive 1: Western Digital 80GB ATA100 8Mb Cache
Hard Drive 2: IBM 40Gb ATA100
Sound card and driver version: Audigy (Driver: 5.12.01.0244)
Monitor’s: Iiyama Pro 451 19” and 2 x AOC 7KLR 17”
DVD-ROM Drive’s: Aopen 16x DVD Rom and Freecom 8x4x32 CDRW
Other: Realtek RTL8139 Network Card
Microlink 56k Fun Modem (serial)

Software Installed

MS Word 2002
Paint Shop Pro 5
McAfee Anti Virus Pro 6.0
MS XP Application Compatibility Toolkit
Win Zip
WinRAR
QuickTime Player

Games

Battlefield 1942 (1.1)
Championship Manager 01-02 (3965)
Deus Ex @ 3072x768 (1112fm)
Civilization 3 (1.29f)
SimCity 3000
Medal of Honor (1.11)
Quake2 (3.20)
Rune (1.07)
Silent Hunter 2 (1.1)
The Longest Journey
Unreal Tournament @ 3072x768 (Creative 4.36 Patch, plus Epic openGL renderer 090602)
Uplink (1.3)

[Gotcha]

I'm lost, I uninstalled and reinstalled, ran patch, ran game to menu and quit, went to change video con file as 1920 480 32 0 as you said, ran game went straight to single player and no triple head, got out changed video custom con also to 1920 480 32 0, ran game this time multiplayer and no th, got out ran apptimizer, ran game still no th. I'm loooossssstttttt!

My system:
video card-parhelia retail version 5.13.01.1000
os-xp home
cpu-athlon xp 2000+
bios verison/date- phoenix technologies, ltd 6.00 pg
smbios version- 2.2
sp1 installed 5.1.2600 build 2600
via prosavagedrr km266 chipset
1024 mb ddr (pc 2100) ram
80 gb hdd
sound card-sound blaster extigy external verision 5.12.01.0038
32x10x40x max cd-rw drive
creative inspire 5.1 speakers
16x max. dvd drive
realtek rtl8139 pci ethernet nic (2 of them)
dsl connection
efficient net works dsl speed stream modem
(2) proview 17" monitor (1) envision lcd monitor
emachines t2080
system model l7vmm
system type x86-based pc


what can I do?

[R0M]

Delete all the profiles, then quit and edit video.con again and change it to 2400 600 32 0. Then run the game again, i am still confused why people are having many problems.

Regards,

[Tony Ostinato]

To AVOID:

1) Plague

B) SP1

[Gotcha]

I do not have any profiles built.

Thanks

what profiles

[R0M]

Ok spent half the day today trying to reproduce your problems with and without the apptimizer and had no luck, the only difference that i was using win2k, i assume everyone who's having problems are using XP, if not speak out please. Tomorrow i'll try it on XP and hopefully will figure it out, in the meantime, the XP SP1 problems are still been looked into,

Regards,