Stranglehold v1.1

Stranglehold, or John Woo Presents Stranglehold, is a third-person shooter developed by Midway Games' Chicago studio, released in late 2007 for Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. It is Midway's first game to use Unreal Engine 3, and was developed in collaboration with John Woo.
The game is the sequel to Woo's 1992 Hong Kong action film, Hard Boiled, and stars Chow Yun-fat in a reprisal of his role as hard-boiled cop Inspector "Tequila" Yuen. Stranglehold is the first project on which Woo and Chow have collaborated since Hard Boiled.

The patched game is not compatible with the FOV hack. For Hor+ gameplay, see Stranglehold v.1.0.

Support summary

	Support	Method	HUD
Widescreen:	Vert-	Native	Proper
Ultra/Super-Wide:	Vert-	cmd line	Stretched
Multi-Monitor:	Vert-	None
4k UltraHD:	Vert-	cmd line	Optimized

Rendered Cut-Scene:	Static Aspect
FMV Cut-Scene:	Static Aspect

Game information

Game status:

Released

Release Date:

Monday, 1 January, 2007

Tested Version:

1.1

Play styles:

Single player, Competitive

Setting:

Police

Genre:

Third-Person Shooter

Developer:

Tiger Hill Entertainment, Midway Games

Links:

Website ⋅ Wikipedia ⋅ PCGamingWiki

Store Links:

Comparison Screenshots

4:3 Screenshot
16:10 Screenshot
16:9 Screenshot
Ultra-Wide (21:9) Screenshot
Super-Wide (32:9) Screenshot
Eyefinity / Surround Screenshot

Solutions & Issues

Baseline (Widescreen) Solution & Issues

The Racer_S hack doesn't work in v1.1 ( only v1.0 ). So don't apply the patch if you intend to use the hor+ hack.
Most native resolutions are supported natively. A few such as 1280x768 are not. If yours isn't, you need to use the command line parameters -ResX= and -ResY=. For instance, if you installed the game to D:\Stranglehold and you wanted to use 1280x768, you could edit the shortcut so that it looks like this:
"D:\Binaries\Retail-Stranglehold.exe" -language=eng -ResX=1280 -ResY=768

Ultra/Super-Wide (21:9/32:9) Specific Solution & Issues

The Racer_S hack doesn't work.
command line parameters -ResX=2560 and -ResY=1080 needs to be added to the shortcut. Gameplay is vert- and hud is stretched.
Only the menu rendered on the game's engine is hor+, tha game itself is vert-

Eyefinity / Surround Specific Solution & Issues

4k UHD Specific Solution & Issues

command line parameters -ResX=3840 and -ResY=2160 needs to be added to the shortcut.