I'm trying to get Pacific fighters to work with my Matrox Triplehead2go digital.The TH2go comes with a gaming utility that supports 1946 and Forgotten Battles but not Pacific Fighters.Originally posted by bntravis:
I got it to work. Under IL-2 properties, you have to set the shortcut to run in "normal window" then it takes the settings and runs three wide just fine. Pretty cool.
I have made the changes to my config file but don't know how to "set the shortcut to run in "normal window""
Thx Johnny
i never noticed this before, until i read this thread.
I have a 5:4 aspect screen (says so on the box), and run a 1280x1024 desktop.
when i adjust the config.ini for that resolution, it gives me a view with the black bars on the top and bottom, with a slightly disorted (squished) picture.
Whats weird is when i run il2 in 1280x960 i get a full picture at 5:4, undistorted.
Sometimes the game doesn't always shut down properly and my desk top will still have the 1280 x960, and there is a noticeable difference.
If it aint broke, don't fix it, but i thought i would share that.
In regard to the last post, the graphical shutdown and re/un-sizing problems could be related to having you sytems GFX Options resolution as a different size to the sizes used in the conf.ini resolution sizes. Try to make all equal to cause less problems when 'exiting' a program.
I have noticed as similar thing on other games where the ingame res' is different to the sytem res'.
Also it could be that a few of the conf.ini gfx related numbers/ingame GFX Options are too high for that resolution. Alter the 'Trees' and/or 'Water' to a lower quality , (and if you dont mind it, set '3D Gunners' to '0').
All right, I'm having some issues.
When I originally purchased the game (from Steam) I was running the Windows 7 beta. Followed the directions here and this worked no problem.
Got tired of having issues with certain programs running in 7, so I bought and installed Vista Ultimate. I installed the 4.08 patch and downloaded the AAA launcher to be able to dual launch into 4.08(mods/no mods) and 4.09(mods/no mods/etc).
The game runs, etc. However, I can not get the resolution to stick in the conf.ini. I changed it from read-only, changed the settings, saved it, and then put it back to read-only. This still didn't force the resolution to load. I have no idea why it's not working now, when it was working in Windows 7.
Any ideas?
Edit: I have searched for other conf.ini files and there are none. Also, I know it's reading from the conf file I'm working on, because if I run the game after setting the res I want, but not setting it to read-only, it changes the resolution back to 800x600.
Edit #2: Well, I managed to get it working. Decided to just uninstall. After doing so, I reinstalled it... and started the game before I patched. After starting it and setting controls and what not, then I quit and set the resolution and all is well.
For those with a 19" wide screen (mine is a Samsung 931BW) I was having trouble getting it to run without stretching, (either up or down) and have now got it running correctly. My native resolution is 1400 X 900 and I cannot run 1946 in that resolution without stretching. Here is the cure I used (1946 now runs in wide screen with no black bars even in initial screen).
1 go into conf ini and change width to 1280, height to 960 then save. (make sure EnableResize=0 and SaveAspect=0)
2 Change video mode in "set up" to 1280 X 960
3 Change display settings for your monitor to 1280 X 960 and save
I nolonger have the "Black Bars" showing at any stage and no stretching