Widescreen Gaming Forum

Howdy

I'm looking to get the widescreen fix for Age of Empires 2 (Conquerors stand alone expansion). I searched this board many times trying to find it, but apparently the post with it was removed and is no longer available.

Can someone please help me and post the fix to get widescreen on this classic game?

I just got a 1280x800 trubrite screen and it's great. Widescreen forever.

That isn't the only topic that's gone AWOL... interesting.

The Age of Mythology method should work: they use the same engine, after all... :)

For some reason it wont let me choose the "1280x1024" option. Also I dont see any "play in window" option either.

OK, try this instead:



Not sure if this will work, bit it's worth a try. Add xres=xxxx and yres=yyyy on the end of the target line of the shortcut you use to start the game. Replace 1680 and 1050 with your wanted values,

Those values cause a crash on my XP Home laptop

OK, so what resolutions can you run on your laptop?

Does the readme give you any hints as to commandline switches?

And you shouldn't have used 1680 and 1050... they were just an example. You should have used the values relevant to your screen. Try it with 1280 and 800.

I also have Age of Empires II and these ideas don't work for me. In fact, the executable file is not "aoe2.exe" but is actually this on my system:

"C:Program FilesMicrosoft GamesAge of Empires IIempires2.exe"

and when I try this in the desktop shortcut:

"C:Program FilesMicrosoft GamesAge of Empires IIempires2.exe" xres=1680 yres=1050

it looks no different than the regular 1280x1024 which is to say that things are stretched. I have the new Gateway 21" widescreen 2185 panel (which I must say is awesome).

So maybe AOE2 is limited to 1280=1024 or the settings shown in this forum don't seem to work.

Okay, none of these work. AOE2 does not use the same engine as AOM or AOE3. This game came out like 5-6 years ago, no one had widescreen monitors. There is no run-in-window option and the game only supports three resolutions no matter what. If your monitor doesn't support one or two of those three resolutions they are just greyed out in the menu.

The command-line options don't work. I couldn't find anything else to even try... except a post that said that at one point there was a fix... I would really really really like this fix. I've searched all over the place.

If you have Age of Empires II: Age of Kings then the executable name is empires2.exe, if you have the The Conquerors add-on then the executable name is age2x.exe

For other resolutions, you will have to work out the math youself. 768 pixels divided by 10 and multiplied by 16 equals 1228.8. (I have a 16:10 aspect ratio). Also, if you have tried the "Digital Flat panal Scaling" tab and get garbled screen for everything, I would recommend changing to a 1024 x 768 resolution, then trying to alter these settings. I still find that these don't work properly, so maybe nvidia will correct this.

This fix is by no means perfect. Sometimes it resets it self, and you will notice that instead of black bars, the screen will stretch and you will see triple on the left side. To fix this, just mess around resolution, or reset the setting in the game. ( go to 800 x 600, then back to 1024 to 768). In AOE the main screen is in 800 x 600, so it will be stretched, but once you load up a game it works fine. Its better than nothing though. GL." alt="" />

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I wish I had an nVidia video card. My laptop is where I'm having troubles, and I have Intel 945GM video.