Widescreen Gaming Forum

@JarHead: Set your external screen (1920) as MAIN DISPLAY in 'Screen Resolution' settings. Old DDraw apps only use the MAIN screen. Nothing I can do about that...

I would very much like to see this for Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds as well.

i try 1900 x 1080 and is too lag
is problem in my graphic procesor ?

dude this is for 1.0 we need 1.0c pls fix for 1.0c i will donate to you. and i use 1900 x 1080 and was too lag is because of my graphic or something else? i use intel 965 mobile graphic adapter. thanks

we cant use this because is for 1.0 version. can you make for 1.0c?? i will donate for your job. and i have lag in 1900 resolution, because of my craphic card??

we cant use this because is for 1.0 version. can you make for 1.0c?? i will donate for your job. and i have lag in 1900 resolution, because of my craphic card??

I'd say, donate! because as it reads in the first post, it works for 1.0, 1.0c and 1.0e - as longa s you have a known NoCD version.
Re the lag: I'd think that it should work fine even on a modern day IGP, since the game was developed for 'normal' 1999 graphics cards, and the resolution is only about 200% higher....

Hello boekabart, first of all thanks for the great work you do!

I have a somehow crazy problem with the widescreen mode:
I have a 16:10 notebook with 1280x800 ratio.....in erlier posts i read something about that there is an issue with that resolution and that it`s not fully supported..is that true for the actual files?
I have Win7 32 bit and i play with the conquerors files in the main directory of the game all on 1.0c (otherwise it doesnt work on win7 as you know), i use the self created 1280x800 batch file to quit the explorer.exe (I use the 1.0c version from bsk and there is no error when installing the widescreen patch on 1.0c).
Everthing fine for now....but when i play a random game with the teutons or saracens for example the game crashes..BUT as chinese everything works fine with widescreen gaming! there is no logic behind that for me...maybe you know more. It also doesn`t matter which setting i use on random game, and i tested it several times with these 3 civilizations, always the same ending. Also only a few campiagn missions work.As a test, when i play 4:3 everything works fine (campaigns, multi, random..).

The thing is that on 1280x800 in 4:3 mode, age of empires is very tiny :lol:

Thanks and Greetings,
gabsman

Hi,

I also can't get it working on my 16:10 1280x800 notebook, running XP.
I have tried with 1.0 and with 1.0c (with the BsK patch).
I notice that the mouse cursor changes to 1280x800 when loading in to a game, but then it crashes without going further than the black loading screen.

Cheers, I very much appreciate what you have done

1280x800 crash confirmed. Working on a fix!

1280x800 crash confirmed. Working on a fix!

Fixed: The problem was that resizing the background image horizontally was sometimes wrong.
Broken were all resolutions 1280 x (smaller than 960), but also (amongst others):
1536 x all, 2048 x all, 2560 x all. So you people with huge resolutions now can play again!

Another improvement in r40: It's no longer killing explorer to fix the palette, but using a (included) program to suspend and resume it. Less artefacts to be expected, and it works for everyone I suppose since it's included!

Files now available at a 'real' domain:http://www.boekabart.net/aoe2wide/
Latest installer: http://www.boekabart.net/aoe2wide/AoE2WideSetup_r40.msi