Nameless Voice on 18/5/2011 at 22:56
Unless you want to use the editor, the latest version of DDFix has enough built-in support for widescreen resolutions that this patch should no longer be necessary.
weak-ling on 24/6/2011 at 01:13
DarkWidescreen version 7 is out.
Download:
(
http://www.gamefront.com/files/20475007/DarkWidescreen-v7.zip)
Changelog:
- Modified the horizontal mouse sensitivity to account for different aspect ratios
- Worked around the dark engine bug making the mouselook get stuck when looking directly up or down
- Added a fail message for all the cool people who don't read the readme and try to use this with the copy-protected version of System Shock 2
- Added a complete ChangeLog
(will probably not work with ddfix > 1.5.6)
James Sterrett on 9/7/2011 at 18:47
Unfortunately, when I download DarkWidescreen-v7.zip, I can't open it due to corruption. (Same result using either Window's internal unzipper or 7-zip.)
ZylonBane on 10/7/2011 at 13:01
Just downloaded, opens fine for me with WinZip, WinRAR, and 7-Zip.
Nameless Voice on 10/7/2011 at 13:56
Check that you don't have an over-zealous antivirus which is corrupting the archive because it thinks it's a virus.
James Sterrett on 10/7/2011 at 17:45
Tried again -->
Direct download through the link above -- right-click and "save as" -- equals corrupted download.
Open the linked page, download from the GameFront site, and the file comes through fine.
ZylonBane on 11/7/2011 at 04:02
Quote Posted by James Sterrett
Direct download through the link above -- right-click and "save as" -- equals corrupted download.
Because you were saving
a web page. That's why clicking on it brings up, y'know, a web page.
Constance on 20/5/2012 at 19:33
Hello there .o/
First I'd wish to thank weak-ling for providing us with this great patch, so here I do : thank you a lot, this is awesome ♥_♥
(Do you accept donations ?)
I do however encounter some kind of minor issue with it : perhaps similarly to vorob, Thief 1 and 2 —sorry, can't test with other games since I don't have them— refuse to allow me playing at my monitor's native resolution (2560x1600, that's a Samsung SyncMaster 305T), even though I have no problem setting my desktop or some more recent games to it.
When I use DarkWideScreen to set that up (with "100" fov), any attempt at starting/loading a mission gives me the following message : « The requested screen mode could not be set. », and then the game's actually running at 640x480 with weird colours — though if I generate a screenshot it appears totally normal.
I've actually been having this issue since a pretty long time. If I recall correctly, I had first tried it with some old version of the patch, perhaps version 5, while my main computer was running Windows XP (Home, SP3, kept up to date...) with a GeForce 8800. Then I switched to an ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5k series, still on the same OS, and more recently I've built another machine running Windows 7 x64, with a Radeon HD 6950 : still having the same little problem even with version 7 of the patch.
Well, it isn't that much of a problem to me since I can actually run the games in 1920x1200 or 2048x1536, yet I thought I'd report it anyway, just in case there would be a possibility of fixing it, which would then make this patch even more awesome than it already is :D
So, if you have like a debug version or some testing tools you'd wish me to run and generate some report with, just tell me, and I'll be glad to give it a try :}
ZylonBane on 20/5/2012 at 23:23
If memory serves, DX6 doesn't support resolutions that high.
Kolya on 21/5/2012 at 07:03
While it won't make a difference for these high resolutions, you might be interested to hear that the widescreen mod was later integrated into DDFix, which itself became part of the combined patch program SS2Tool.
Related: (
http://www.systemshock.org/index.php/topic,106.0.html) SS2 Technical FAQ
