Widescreen Gaming Forum

For some reason I could not reply to http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2687

So consider this an addendum to that post.


In the game's installed folder (CodemastersSecond Sight) open up secondsight.cfg

Find these entries:
scr_height=
scr_hz=
scr_width=

As far as I know they are the only ones related to screen resolution.
Second Sight should be considered a fixed aspect game. (4:3)
Although you can set
scr_height=1080
scr_width=1920
it will stretch, I'm not sure what engine they are using (might be fully custom)

My advice is to use your graphic card's "keep aspect" scaling or your monitor's equivalent if it has such a mode.
Then use values like this.

For 1920x1080 use:
scr_height=1080
scr_width=1440

For 1680x1050 use:
scr_height=1050
scr_width=1400

In other words, for any non-4:3 aspect, take the height of your screen native resolution, divide by 3 then multiply by 4.
enter you screen's native resolution height as the scr_height and the width you just calculated as the scr_width.

If all goes well then the game should now be pillarboxed. If not then it's time to mess with you monitor's aspect settings or your graphic card's aspect settings.
The key is to look for the "keep aspect scaling" (or whatever it's called in your case).
Since the scr_height is the same as the native resolution and the scr_width is less than your native resolution no scaling is needed
and the GFX card or monitor should automatically center the image horizontally and pillarbox it.

This is the only way I'm aware of to play this game without stretching and without scaling.