Instructions for running fullscreen with resolution-Windows

[3dbricks]

To all those having difficulty with running Warzone 2100 in full screen with windows here is how to do it. I know that the readme makes no sense to the common reader so I took the time to type up the steps.

1.) If you do not have a shortcut of warzone2100.exe already, make one.
2.) right-click on the shortcut and click Properties
3.) Click on the tab called Shortcut
4.) Go to the box with the label before it called Target
5.) You should have a line that reads something like this (Note: it should read the location you installed WARZONE 2100 at): "C:\Program Files\Warzone 2100\warzone2100.exe"
6.) Change it so it reads: "C:\Program Files\Warzone 2100\warzone2100.exe" --mod grim.wz --fullscreen --viewport widthxhight
7.) Replace widthxhight with your desired resolution. For example: 1280x1024
8.) Your path for Target should now read like this except with your specified resolution:
"C:\Program Files\Warzone 2100\warzone2100.exe" --mod grim.wz --fullscreen --resolution 1280x1024 (Note: Before 2.0.6 you must use "--viewport" instead of "--resolution")
9.) Now click Apply and OK.
10.) Run warzone 2100 using the shortcut and enjoy fullscreen resolution (or whatever you set it at).


I Hope this helps a little. Brought to you by: 3dbricks

Feel free to add this info to the readme and wiki.

[Cmdr]

to some, depending on hardware, you may wish to add

  --noshadows

into the mix.

My current path is

"C:\Program Files\Warzone 2100\warzone2100.exe"  --mod grim.wz --fullscreen --viewport 1024x768

Probably a no-brainer - but make sure your GFx Card and Monitor can handle the res you set

[DevUrandom]

Thanks for the effort... Will put this into the readme when I got time...

[Kamaze]

Feel free to add this info to the readme and wiki.[/i]

You can add this by yourself with your forums account

[steelblade]

Its aint working for me... :'( i'm using windows 2000 maybe this is the issue?my bad...nvm i'm a damn noob who made a spelling mistake..LOL

[Giel]

Stickified this for now.

[Kamaze]

I updated this to make it 2.0.6 conform.
(--resolution instead of --viewport)

[psychopompos]

running high resolutions is great & all.
but at 1280x1024the menu tab buttons become annoyingly small in game, so i cant imagine what they would be like @ 1600x  ::)

couldn't res settings, shadows etc. be put under gfx options in game?

[ZeosPantera]

My brothers computer has a widescreen 1680x1050 resolution and the game simply doesn't even try to start with that in the launch. Are odd/widescreen resolutions not supported?

[kage]

My brothers computer has a widescreen 1680x1050 resolution and the game simply doesn't even try to start with that in the launch. Are odd/widescreen resolutions not supported?

i run 1920x1200 (16:10 -- same ratio as your brother's) and that works perfectly fine.  warzone doesn't *try* to find a good resolution to start it. it just runs with a global default until you tell it otherwise -- this default may be 800x600 -- i cannot recall.

assuming you're using a recent version of the warzone resurrection binary, you can just append "--resolution 1680x1050" to the commandline options (without the quotes).  information about doing this with windows shortcuts can be seen earlier in this thread or on the wiki.

[Giel]

My brothers computer has a widescreen 1680x1050 resolution and the game simply doesn't even try to start with that in the launch. Are odd/widescreen resolutions not supported?

Warzone supports _any_ resolution larger than 640x480 that OpenGL can deal with.

i run 1920x1200 (16:10 -- same ratio as your brother's) and that works perfectly fine.  warzone doesn't *try* to find a good resolution to start it. it just runs with a global default until you tell it otherwise -- this default may be 800x600 -- i cannot recall.

640x480 is the default resolution used (we're considering increasing this to 800x600 or 1024x768).

[ZeosPantera]

Warzone supports _any_ resolution larger than 640x480 that OpenGL can deal with.
640x480 is the default resolution used (we're considering increasing this to 800x600 or 1024x768).

I would recommend that for several reasons but the most important is the first impressions. I sent the download for this to a dozen people and the first thing they all said was... "Why does it look like crap?" Then came the long emails and chat convos..

Perhaps If you added a plethora of resolution shortcuts to the programs list similar to the original it would help.

Warsoze2100>Resolutions .. Then they could just drag the right one to their desktop like I use to do

[Per]

In trunk (future 2.1), you can now change resolution from the options menu.

[EvilGuru]

Warzone works on widescreen monitor resolutions, although there are a few minor issues (mainly related to selecting units on the far left or right of the viewport).

I, however, have successfully run the game at 3360x1050 and 3200x1200 (dual 1650x1050 and dual 1600x1200) and it has mostly worked fine.

Regards, Freddie.

[timmer]

To all those having difficulty with running Warzone 2100 in full screen with windows here is how to do it. I know that the readme makes no sense to the common reader so I took the time to type up the steps.

1.) If you do not have a shortcut of warzone2100.exe already, make one.
2.) right-click on the shortcut and click Properties
3.) Click on the tab called Shortcut
4.) Go to the box with the label before it called Target
5.) You should have a line that reads something like this (Note: it should read the location you installed WARZONE 2100 at): "C:\Program Files\Warzone 2100\warzone2100.exe"
6.) Change it so it reads: "C:\Program Files\Warzone 2100\warzone2100.exe" --mod grim.wz --fullscreen --viewport widthxhight
7.) Replace widthxhight with your desired resolution. For example: 1280x1024
8.) Your path for Target should now read like this except with your specified resolution:
"C:\Program Files\Warzone 2100\warzone2100.exe" --mod grim.wz --fullscreen --resolution 1280x1024 (Note: Before 2.0.6 you must use "--viewport" instead of "--resolution")
9.) Now click Apply and OK.
10.) Run warzone 2100 using the shortcut and enjoy fullscreen resolution (or whatever you set it at).


I Hope this helps a little. Brought to you by: 3dbricks

Feel free to add this info to the readme and wiki.

Will this still work if you have other things in the target box, i.e. --cheat