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Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142 Samsung 226BW 1680×1050 Custom Resolution for Widescreen

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Ok. I’ve been dicked aroun by EA so many times I figured I’d help all those people with the same issue I was having. This works in Windows XP, Vista 32 & Vista 64.

I’ve got a Samsung SyncMaster 226BW Widescreen monitor. I wanted to play BF2 and BF2142 with wide screen custom settings. The highest non custom resolution you can get in game is in the 1290×960. To get both the 1680×1050 resolution and Widescreen setting you must follow these steps. I assume you’ve already installed the game and have the latest patch installed. These step work in both BF2 and BF2142.

  • Create a Shortcut on say your desktop to your BF2.
  • Edit the shortcut to look similar to this:
  • “C:\games\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe” +menu 1 +widescreen 1 +szx 1680 +szy 1050
  • *note* You only want to add the “+menu 1… ” part to the end of the shortcut.
  • Go to your profile settings. It is in your:
  • C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles (For Vista)
  • C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles (XP)
  • Edit Video.conf files with notepad in each profile. Each profile will look like 001,002 etc. You also want to edit the Default Video.con profile.
  • Find the line in : “VideoSettings.setResolution 800×600@60Hz” or something similar in EACH the Video.con file I just mentioned. Put a “rem ” without quotes at the begining of the line. This removes the command from the config file.
  • Go in the game. Do NOT…. Change the resolution in the game. You can however change setting like Terrain Detail = High etc if you need to.
  • Download and install widescreenfixer from here:
  • Once installed select Bf2 from within widescreenfixer
  • Run game. Once you’ve loaded up a level in the game hit the “;” key to make the screen True widescreen. You can see the difference this program makes here near the bottom of the page:
  • To verify that the game is runing in the right resolution download & install fraps.
  • Run FRAPS program and run game. Hit F10 in the game to take a screen shot to the default FRAPS folder. Verify the picture is the propper resolution.

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