weak-ling on 13/5/2008 at 11:24
Hi, this is a widescreen modification for Dark Engine games
Installation Requirements:
- System Shock 2 (version 2.3) or
- Thief (version 1.33) or
- Thief Gold (version 1.37) or
- Thief 2 (version 1.18) or
- Demos of SS2, T, TG or T2 or
- One of four different versions of DromEd
- No SafeDisc copy protection
Installation Instructions:
- Extract the archive to your game installation directory
- Run DarkWidescreen.bat
- Follow the instructions to input your desired resolution
- You will be asked for a fov modification. This allows you to change your field of view. If you don't know what this means just enter 100
- After patching is completed successfully you can run the game's exe to play
While this is called the widescreen mod you can also use it to play in previously unsupported 4:3 resolutions like 1400x1050. In fact you are not limited to standard resolutions at all. If your monitor/graphics card support it you should be able to play in any resolution you want, for example 1337x666:
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http://img229.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1337x666kq3.png)
Inline Image:
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/1285/1337x666kq3.th.pngThe current release is v7, it has support for System Shock 2, Thief, Thief Gold, Thief2, DromEd and all Demos:
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http://www.gamefront.com/files/20475007/DarkWidescreen-v7.zip)
The Magpie on 13/5/2008 at 13:08
OMG.
What did you do?
And it works so well with the SS2MM, too.
I can hardly believe this arrives after so many years... but it's so nice. So nice.
Thank you.
--
Larris
Trance on 13/5/2008 at 13:35
:eek:
This is so ace!
ZylonBane on 13/5/2008 at 15:10
Using an Infinity Engine patcher to modify SS2? Now that's different!
RocketMan on 13/5/2008 at 16:09
I JUST LOVE these people who come out of the woodwork and drop beautiful stuff in our laps. It's like a surprise birthday party thrown by a complete stranger...and the birthday party doesn't suck because there's strippers and tanks, and imported beer and fillet mignon.
Weak-ling you are anything but weak.
Nameless Voice on 13/5/2008 at 19:49
Edit: This turned out to all be a stupid mistake on my part; see below.
This doesn't seem to work with DDFix.
With DDFix, I get reset to the resolution DDFix is set to use; without DDFix, the game instantly crashes on my 8800GT.
It works to some extent, both with DDFix and without, on my laptop (ATI Mobility X300), but I simply get a letterboxed 4:3 resolution, with the bottom part of the screen (most noticably, half the health/psi bar area) cut off.
The menus are badly cropped and hard to navigate if using DDFix.
However, if I take a screenshot, it appears as it should, in true widescreen with working health/psi bar, in the screenshots.
I was using 1280x800 as a test resolution.
The laptop's native resolution is 1400x1050, and the desktop's is 1280x1024 (no, neither of those are widescreen).
The patch does enable 1400x1050 on the laptop, which seems to work.
AR Master on 13/5/2008 at 20:02
Just put some black tape on the top and bottom of your monitor, instant widescreen
weak-ling on 13/5/2008 at 20:28
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
This doesn't seem to work with DDFix.
With DDFix, I get reset to the resolution DDFix is set to use; without DDFix, the game instantly crashes on my 8800GT.
It does work with ddfix. You will have to set ddfix to the same resolution that you entered in the widescreen mod. Here is a screenshot, compare the lighting on the floor with the first screenshot and you will see that it is running ddfix now:
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http://img519.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1337x666ddlq0.png)
Inline Image:
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/3015/1337x666ddlq0.th.pngNameless Voice on 13/5/2008 at 21:03
I did try that. Like I said, it "worked" on the laptop with the ATI card, but not on the desktop with the nVIDIA card (169.21 drivers).
With DDFix on the desktop, it works, but the main menu is still stretched to fullscreen (1280x1024), and attempting to enter the game crashes Thief with the error "Your video hardware is not supported by System Shock 2."
All right, it looks like it does work with DDFix, it just won't work with any non-standard resolutions. It works fine if I set it to use 1280x1024 (which is obviously redundant), but exits with the above error at 1280x800.
And what about the issue of the laptop which will save screenshots at the widescreen resolution without a problem, but doesn't actually render the game in widescreen? I can't think how to show that without taking a camera to the screen...
TheNightTerror on 13/5/2008 at 21:17
Just took a quick peek at this -- looks pretty god damn good to me! Far as I can tell we have true widescreen. Set myself up so I was standing in the same spot as one of the screenies in my walkthrough to be sure, and there's definitely way more picture.
Have you made this mod for all the Dark engine games, or just SS2 so far? It might just be worth replaying at least one of them just to enjoy being able to play without feeling like I have blinders on. :D Oh, and I'm playing with DDFix installed. Just changed the proper .ini file to use the resolution I wanted, and she worked just fine. :)
My only little nitpick is the main menu is stretched. Don't know if there's any way to get around that, but I just wouldn't be me if I didn't complain about something!
