Maximum Screen Resolution?

[bornlibra23]

Hello
What is the maximum resolution can I hope to play various versions on? Does it depend on the mod or just the base version of the game?
My base install is running at 1280*something*32 at in non widescreen aspect ratio. How can I fix this?

[GSH]

The bzone.exe version (i.e. the version of the game installed and running) determines your max supported resolution. For best resolution support, use 1.3.5 or up.

-- GSH

[bornlibra23]

Thank you GSH. A quick question if you may humor me, are wide screen resolutions available?

[Nielk1]

I play at 1920 by 1200. So yes.

You need to use a modern patch.

And the menu might look a little funny at certain resolutions because it has to stretch the background. Game looks pretty good though since the GUI elements in game are pinned to specific corners and rendered at 1:1.

[Ded10c]

1080 looks just fine.

[Zax]

1080 looks just fine.

It's all just 4:3 stretched to widescreen format if I understand correctly.

[Nielk1]

1080 looks just fine.

It's all just 4:3 stretched to widescreen format if I understand correctly.

No, no it isn't. Aside from the menu. The menu is 4:3 stretched because it has to be. The in game stuff is fine.

[Zax]

1080 looks just fine.

It's all just 4:3 stretched to widescreen format if I understand correctly.

No, no it isn't. Aside from the menu. The menu is 4:3 stretched because it has to be. The in game stuff is fine.

Yeah, you got me on my bad wording. i was hasty and didn't exacerbate what I meant properly and that one's on me. Below is the corrected, longer exploration.

Still interested in poking around with the FOV to take advantage of the widescreen?

It is fairly safe to say all gamers are using LCD widescreens now, and that giving a wider FOV wouldn't disadvantage anyone. What I mean is the 4:3 FOV is stretched to the widescreen fit, instead of gaining more lateral visibility and really opening up the viewport. BZ2, at least to me, has always suffered from a rather locked in cone, particularly considering most ships have wrap-around windowed cockpits. Should be able to see out the corner of your pilot's eyes, would make flying through base more interesting and dogfights more captivating. With 4:3 aspects of CRT, the effect simply wasn't possible. Widescreen is ideal for that and would be an enhancement I would like to help add, but would definitely require some labor and forehead-to-wall testing.

[Doomer_Junge]

I want to grab this thread again.

I am thinking about buying a 4K monitor. Because I still enjoying BZ2, I tried to play the game with AMDs VSR and increasing the resolution above of my current 1080p monitor. After changing the resolution to 1800p the UI was extremly oversized.

Does BZ2 (1.3.6.5) only support 1080p or is the VSR the issue?

[GSH]

I think 1.3.6.5 has options to rescale the UI from 1.0x to 2.5x (or so). 1.3.7.x allows 1.0x - 5.0x (or so). Look at the bottom of the graphics options page #2.

Also, 1.3.7.x has support for widescreen FOVs as well.

-- GSH

[Doomer_Junge]

I know the rescale option, but I mean the UI in the menu. With VSR I get extremly oversized, overlapping buttons.

Here a screenshot:

I don't know if this has something to do with VSR.

[Red Devil]

the mod maker probably uses custom screens, so he needs to make some to allow for the bigger screen sizes.

[General BlackDragon]

That has nothing to do with VSR. VSR's UI is limited to Extra Option pages.

Do you have any other shell mods installed into addon? The background in that image is from FE mod.

[Doomer_Junge]

I have currently only FE installed ("out-of-a-box") and no other mods. I tested VSR with stock BZ2 and there I had no issues with the shells.

I guess FE has a modified shell, when I remember the 1.2 patch.

[General BlackDragon]

Yea, FE for 1.2 shouldn't be used on any patch other then 1.2.

The 1.3 version of FE doesn't modify addon or anything so it shouldn't effect VSR.