How to set CORRECT widescreen resolution for Fallout 2

I tried 1366x768 windowed from f2_res_config.exe, yes. Dialog boxes look pretty small to me (screen is 15")
Not sure if the "windowed" part work correctly though, as there is no actual window around the play area.
 
GuYem said:
Bumping this thread because it looks like my current case and some experts here may answer my situation.

Just reinstalled Fallout 2 with RP, just want to do a new run after all those years. Dont want to mess around with options for a long time, but would appreciate a larger field of view, no distorted image from the original, and dialog and such boxes to be readable.

For now I could not find a good setting to me :
*not sure how to handle both ddraw.ini and fr2_res_config.exe properly
* original 640x480 and 800x600 are stretchy on 16:9 screen and have small field of view.
* weird resolutions do crash,
* any resolution larger or equal than 1024x768 has too small dialog boxes on my 15" laptop monitor.

Anyone could recommend a good setting for me ? I should also precise that my monitor can not handle more than 1366x768.
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If you want large field of view and correct aspect ratio either use exact same values of a 16:9 aspect ratio in both fields this is without the zoom in. Or use equivalent of 768×yyy for ddraw.ini and exactly half of that in f2res. If it does not want to launch use fullscreen windowed mode probably graphic mode 6 as far as i remember
 
PlanHex said:
This may be a video card setting that you can fix if you want to just play in the original resolutions with black bars on the sides.
https://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/old_games_stretched_on_new_widescreen_monitors

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...on-in-43/1e688aa9-24a7-4db3-ad36-455db1512abb
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All good here, black bars on the side are ok with original resolution. Small field of view though.


gustarballs1983 said:
If you want large field of view and correct aspect ratio either use exact same values of a 16:9 aspect ratio in both fields this is without the zoom in.
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Thanks for the input gustarballs1983. I tried this :

* Graphic mode 4 and 1366x768 in ddraw.ini + the same resolution in f2_res_config.exe.
* Graphic mode 4 and 960x540 in ddraw.ini + the same resolution in f2_res_config.exe.

Those are approx 16:9 aspect ratio. Things looks crisp and nice, no stretching, no interpolated pixels as I can tell. However, this is a bit too zoomed out to my (picky) taste ; dialog boxes are small and I get tired quick reading those.
Is there another "usual" 16:9 resolution I could try ?


gustarballs1983 said:
Or use equivalent of 768×yyy for ddraw.ini and exactly half of that in f2res. If it does not want to launch use fullscreen windowed mode probably graphic mode 6 as far as i remember
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There I must say I do not understand the "equivalent of 768×yyy" for ddraw.ini ?
 
no stretching, no interpolated pixels as I can tell.
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Unlikely; there is no resolution smaller than 1366x768 that won't stretch some pixels on a (fixed pixel-grid) screen of that resolution. For "clean" scaling you'd have to go half your native resolution, which won't fit the UI properly if it works at all.

960x540 is already close-ish to the original 640x480 resolution. You could try 854x480 which is basically vanilla but widescreen.
 
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Buxbaum666 said:
Unlikely; there is no resolution smaller than 1366x768 that won't stretch some pixels on a (fixed pixel-grid) screen of that resolution. For "clean" scaling you'd have to go half your native resolution, which won't fit the UI properly if it works at all.

960x540 is already close-ish to the original 640x480 resolution. You could try 854x480 which is basically vanilla but widescreen.
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Now you're right about that after closer examination : 1366x768 is clean, but 960x540 is more blurry which means stretched pixels.

Trying to go half my native resolution of 1366x768 would mean going 683x384. Tried that but f2_res_config does not want to register it : sets the y resolution back to 480 automatically, guess it does not allow to go less than original ?

Well, looks like my weird monitor 1366x768 is at fault here.
Since I would like to play more than to tweak settings, I'll choose a non optimal res setting, but would still appreciate any advice you could give on that matter.
 
Trying to go half my native resolution of 1366x768 would mean going 683x384. Tried that but f2_res_config does not want to register it : sets the y resolution back to 480 automatically, guess it does not allow to go less than original ?
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You can't go lower than a vertical resolution of 480 because the game UI wouldn't fit the screen. That's a hard limit you can't circumvent. You have to either use the native resolution of your screen and have a pixel perfect picture but smaller UI or live with non-integer scaling.
 
Buxbaum666 said:
You have to either use the native resolution of your screen and have a pixel perfect picture but smaller UI or live with non-integer scaling.
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Definite good way of suming up the situation with a 1366x768 screen. I was thinking about changing that screen sometime because some pixel lines are dead, will be sure to buy a 1920x1080 one.

Also I was wondering if someone ever made a mod able to scale the dialog boxes only ?
 
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