BF2142: Finally we get widescreen support!

http://games.softpedia.com/get/Patch/Battlefield-2142-150-Patch.shtml

New patch out 1.50 Click link above for all the details.

Its here after so long we have complained and moaned about BF2142 not supporting native widescreen, but finally in the latest patch the added support in for REAL widescreen. This means if you have a 16:9 or 16:10 monitor your FOV will be increased in the game rather than the only method in the past to fill the screen by chopping off the top and bottom of your screen via overscan (zoom)

Unfortunately I see no such patch for BF2.... but heck I liked 2142 better once I got used to it anyways. I cant wait to upgrade my PC so I can play 2142 in full 16:9 1920x1080 bliss on my 37"!

Edit:
To enable the widescreen support since its considered a "test" right now you must manually add "+widescreen 1" under the target section of your game launcher. Just right click your shortcut to the game and add it after the +fullscreen 1 entry.

 

Surprised BF2 won't be patched. I'm sure it's similar to BF2142 as far as coding. But what do I know?

 

Its not a matter of coding, we had 3rd party cracks to support native widescreen for BF2 & 2142 by some of our great crackers @ widescreen almost right after release. We even shared the code with EA but they said it was an unfair advantage to widescreen players as there excuse and made it so that using the patch would get you kicked from punkbuster. So you could only use it on private hosted games.

I assume they finally gave in with BF2142 due to the MASSIVE load of complaints and our ongoing petitions and its there newer game that is still highly supported. BF2 on the other hand being older maybe they just dont care? or maybe they are testing the waters to see how the diehard 4:3 users take the patch to support widescreen.

The idea of it being unfair was just ludicrous because massively competitive games like counter strike have supported native widescreen for a long time and nobody cried about it there. Plus most of us widescreen users opted to chop off the top and bottom of our screen to fill our entire monitor rather than play with black bars on the sides and we never cried unfair and used that as an excuse to losing. I always got top 3 with a 16:9 aspect chopped and didnt find it to be any noticeable handicap, and vertical FOV is more important than horizontal anyways because all the people below you or above you on rooftops and things.

 

All true except horizontal FOV is far more important. It correlates with the greater width in natural human vision.

 

It has nothing to do with natural vision, this is a game, its a matter of game mechanics. I found more often than not if somebody was shooting me it was because they were above me or below me and I could not see them, Almost always you can see everybody around you with the default FOV.

 

Hey guys, do you have to edit the video config file in order to get it to work in widescreen? At the moment, in the video options menu the highest setting I am offered is 1152 x 864 @60 Hz.

I've got 1.50 installed.

 

Wow i may actually buy it now

 

yeah bf2142 was all in all a pretty good game. the whole widescreen thing was a big issue. i actually haven't played it in a long time because i just couldn't stand it.

not supporting widescreen is sort of like not supported newer faster graphics cards and cpu's because they give higher framerates, and therefore an unfair advantage. at least they understood eventually.

 

Yes I just got done installing the game myself I actually still had my temp files downloaded and just not installed. After you install patch 1.50 right click your shortcut and under the target parameter add "+widescreen 1" without quotes. You do not need to erase +fullscreen 1 just put it after it. Then the widescreen resolutions will be available.

 

Nice one dude!!

 

Just got done playing my first game in so long, just did a 1 player match against bots. Man I forgot almost everything like what key to push to do what and my skills in driving vehicles are really bad now.

Still it was a blast and looked great in 16:9

 

very strange, all my resolutions are still 4:3, the highest one is 1600x1200. my video driver is 175.70.

 

You did read my post and make sure you added the +widescreen option right? and also make sure you installed the 1.50 patch, which I had to get off the web manually it was not in the EA downloader.

 

sorry I missed shortcut tips, so ""C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Battlefield 2142\BF2142.exe" +playNow 1 +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1920 +szy 1200 +widescreen 1"?

 

Great I'm going to start playing this game again. I think 2142 got a bad rap it's a good game, but I still like BF2 better.

 

Thanks for posting this, Vicious. I might dust of 2142 and reinstall it. It has been a long time since I've played it...

 

I'm personally glad they added widescreen support, but I would have been happier if they fixed one of the 200 exploits that still riddle this game. I.e. Pod Surfing, Areas in the game where you can go into walls and shoot anyone on the outside, In titan mode killing your own reactor and &$&$& your team. Etc. I love the game but just so many exploits.

 

according to the totalbf2142 forums from those guys that play every day and live BF2 & 2142 they did fix pod surfing.

I dunno about the others, I have access to those forums as a server administrator so I can usually find all the cheats/hacks/exploits listed under our confidential area, but since the patch is new it may be awhile before I can get accurate feedback.

 

You should not need the forced resolution so take off the +szx 1920 & +szy 1200 and you will see 1920x1200 res in your options in game after adding the +widescreen 1 I had 1920x1080 as an option on my display but my computer is not fast enough so I did 1200x700ish what ever the 16:9 is for that area.