How to set CORRECT widescreen resolution for Fallout 2

[NovaRain]

If the desktop resolution is 1366x768, have you tried running in fullscreen windowed?

 

[GuYem]

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.

 

[PlanHex]

original 640x480 and 800x600 are stretchy on 16:9 screen

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

 

[gustarballs1983]

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.

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