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    Age of Empires 2 on widescreen?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by vshade, May 12, 2007.

  1. vshade

    vshade Notebook Evangelist

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    Hello,

    I just bought a notebook, a HP pavilion DV8000 and where I live we like to play age of empires 2 and quake 3, I want to know if there is a way of playing these games in my native resolution, 1440x900

    Thanks
     
    vshade, May 12, 2007
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  2. CeeNote

    CeeNote Notebook Virtuoso

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    You'll be able to play AOE2 on your laptop though it will stretch the game because there is no option to select a widescreen resolution. You will probably have to play AOE2 with 1024x768 resolution. I don't know about Quake 3 though.
     
    CeeNote, May 12, 2007
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  3. nukec

    nukec Notebook Consultant

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    that is correct,.. i have 1440x900 native resolution and i paly it on 1024x748... it is really the best game there forever ;) aoe2 is game of my life.
     
    nukec, May 12, 2007
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  4. TomTom2007

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    or try run it in windowed mode, then you can pretty much stretch whatever size/resolution you want.

    (How? right-click on the short-cut to the game.exe, then add " -w" or " -windowed" (with a "space" in front of the dash) to the "Target" command line, all the way after the file directory line.
     
    TomTom2007, May 12, 2007
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