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    Battlefield 2 at 1366x768 fullscreen?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Tinderbox (UK), Oct 9, 2009.

  1. Tinderbox (UK)

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    Just wondered if i will have any problems running fullscreen on one of these 16:9 screens.

    Thanks.
     
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    nope (10 char)
     
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    On a INTEL 4500MHD ?
     
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    yes :) (10char again)
     
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    [​IMG]

    well although it says fail, i am playing it lol (lowest settings, but textures and lighting medium)
     
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    thanks for that.

    do you play the full games or the demo , as i have the deluxe version but i prefer the demo?
     
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    full (10 char)
     
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    The 4500MHD should be able to run it fine. It's about as powerful as the old Geforce 6200 even though it lacks dedicated video memory.
     
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    It has 64mb of GDDR2 i think, the rest it uses from the system memory.

     
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    do you already have the notebook in question?

    if you have the demo that may be your best bet to just try it in there and see if it works, i think the latest battlefield 2 patch gave full support to widescreen resolutions, if not there are three ways to "get" it to work.

    first is to add "+widescreen 1" to the shortcut placed on your desktop when you install the game, which will force widescreen instead of fullscreen mode. you can change this by opening up the properties of the shortcut on your desktop. That by itself should work with the new bf2 patches.

    if that doesnt work you can try and force the resolution by adding "+szx 1366 +szy768" for example, that is if your resolution is 1366x768. that will force the resolution if the option isnt available in the game settings when you use +widescreen 1 by itself.

    Alternatively you can try a program called Widescreen fixer which works with a multitude of Ea games, though ive never had to really use it, since the other fixes worked for me.

    Unfortunately while this will give you native resolution, it wont fix your POV as that will stay the same for a 4:3 ratio screen instead of the 16:9 you are hoping for. so stuff still may look a little weird, ie stuff stretched, or models messed up like floating hands and whatnot.

    Good luck man, enjoy bf2.
     
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    Or he could just install patch 1.5 (It adds widescreen support).

    Yes, you will be able to run it, but not in 1366x768. Your GPU is not powerfull enough to handle it. I will guess you can run it on low settings and an OK resolution.

    But try it! Maybe we will be surprised!
     
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    An emulator program and more RAM would help in playing BF2 but seriously its a crap card not designed to play and games and the only good thing it can do is play HD videos...
     
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    It is an Acer Timeline 5810T , INTEL SU9400 cpu and 4gb of DDR3

     
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    Not good enough a TG with 4330HD Radeon would have been perfect.