Widescreen Gaming Forum

I Also have the Complete Chronicles and was wondering the same thing as asked about the command line and compatability with CC.

anyways, my reason for posting was what I said here in a different thread,

_____Hello, I have recently gotten the UNIWS patcher to get URU running in 1680x1050 widescreen, but in the new dev_mode.dat file it creaters...settings such as coloring are set to 16bit and textures are set to low... I wanted to know if /bow the creater could change the patch so it max's settings out..but I doubt anyone wants to run it with ani/antialiasing on max.. so preferably a few included modified dev_mode files....

*I'm pretty sure most of you were trying it without the added info in the command line therefore it reverts to default settings, the Run c: method wouldn't boot the game *random location not found errors*, so I simply added it on to my URU shortcut on my start menu.*


I know how to do it myself..but I simply can't code worth anything anymore.It's quite sad, I figured if I could look at the defualt Dev_Mode.dat through many conversion I could see what each value is in binary/hex then put mine in after converting them and make my own new file but.. I simply forgot everything about conversions._______

so..summing it all up, we either need to find at way to edit the Dev_mode.dat file for all settings at once b/c when you patch it then go to the config screen to change coloring/texture quality etc.. it defaults back, or i can try to get that urures thing working, b/c logically if that itself can change the rez..then we could select our custom settings in the graphical config menu..then use the program to change the rez...and pinning it to start menu with the -iinit To_Dni line to skip the config menu so nothing defaults..

I know through reverse process of elimination of re converting all defualt hex/binary in the dat file we could figure out what is what then splice in all settings we want at once for it

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O.k... I've got uru Complete Chronicles and I tried using the uniws.exe but although it patched o.k. when I tried to run: "C:uruUruExplorer.exe -iinit To_Dni" It gives me an error: "There was an error initializing your graphics settings, try lowering your resolution" So I guess the "-iinit To_Dni" Doesn't work with uru complete chronicles. Does anyone know what the command to fix this is??? How do I go straight to the game without URU checking the resolution????

Using the Patcher forces the game to use low quality settings for everything, if you read above you will see that.

I saw that... But it doesn't allow me to start up the game at all! when I put that command into the run box, the game should start and it doesn't. it gives me the error then when I click o.k., it exits out!

I simply added that to a start menu shortcut and it worked, but the problem is it's set to low settings. I also have the Complete Chronicles.

When you play the game in 800 x 600 it seems that it is in widescreen format. I undid the patch and played at 800 x 600 it was stretched all the way across my screen. When I do the patch and type in the command : "UruExplorer.exe -iinit To_Dni" it gives me the error and reverts everything back to defaults! So the patch doesn't work on my uru Complete chronicles as near as I can tell! Hopefully someone will come up with a widescreen patch soon!

It does work, you must first set the game to a defualt res, then patch it, then make a shortcut and add that cmd line info. what annoys me though is Uru Live has been patched to work with widescreen lcd's and supports all res/ratio's.. but they won't take 15 mins and patch the non online one to work like that, End of Ages does which runs off the Uru Engine.

That's what I did... I unpatched the game and set everything back to defaults. Then I ran the patch and set the resolution to 1900 x 1280 and added the command C:uruUruExplorer.exe -iinit To_Dni to my start menu chortcut and ran it! i get the same error and the game doesn't start. when I try to run uru from the desktop shortcut, it tells me "Failed to load graphics settings from file, using defaults". Which is exactly what it does! If I remove the patch, that is the same as with the patch on! There is no difference! I'm not sure how you're getting it to work because i cannot.... :(