Very high resolution and widescreen gaming for Freelancer (Write up)

[tazuras]

Modifying pretty much anything having to do with the display or UI of Freelancer will not be picked up by the anti-cheat software so feel free to play away. Otherwise I can help ya, so good luck.

---

[Varyag]

1650X1080 is as high as it will go

---

"I looked up and all I saw was green death"

[Eternal]

1650X1080 is as high as it will go

Eh ? How do you do that , I can't see it in my options.

---

[triple88a]

Negative ladies and gentlemen, i DID get it to 1920x1080. And it works well only the menus are big so i will have to play with those. Here check this out. Posting full size pic just "fo sho"

Click the link to download. I dont want to upload it to photobucket since it will shrink it which is the opposite of what i want to show.

Left is 1024x768 right is 1920x1080.

Look at the size of the pixels. The left image is resized to fit the benchmark scale.

http://postdownload.filefront.com/13536156...961e1eab7946f94

Once i get it to work i will post instructions on the how to assuming it will not ban us.

[spec]

Yes it can be scaled up to 1920x1200 though it doesn't show this on the options page.
You've to modify the config file directly. I'm also at 1920x1200
Though the problem with playing at such a reso is that the targetting box and the weapons box comes slightly inwards, as such it does obstruct your view. If there are 4-5 contacts your target list, then the fonts are not a perfect fit - they sometimes overlap.
All other boxes - such as the servers list, etc on other screens in the game are also skewed a bit.

---

<span style="font-family:Century Gothic">Spec - Independent Trader</span>
Small Transport - Hauling without earning

Current Status: Inactive - Too Much Work and Travel

[triple88a]

Yes sir, i saw that. This is what i'm trying to fix. I'm trying to fix and scale the rest of the stuff



Edit:
From the looks of it, I gotta say thumbs up.

[spec]

Yes sir, i saw that. This is what i'm trying to fix. I'm trying to fix and scale the rest of the stuff
Edit:
From the looks of it, I gotta say thumbs up.

Good Luck to ya mate...
I did try a few things myself and got to change the fonts, but didn't have enough time to investigate further...
Hope you are successful - Let us know if you reach there.

Gaming in Full HD:)

---

<span style="font-family:Century Gothic">Spec - Independent Trader</span>
Small Transport - Hauling without earning

Current Status: Inactive - Too Much Work and Travel

[triple88a]

Alright so far i have figured out the fonts. everything is good. Currently there are only 2 known problems.

also warning, The pics are high resolution so they are around a mb each which is why i made them as clickable links.

#1
When you first launch the game, the menu is screwed up. Once you launch into space, the menus will realign and be alright until you restart the game (meaning until you shut down freelancer completely to windows and then turn it back on again).

You can do a load or if you have storymode disabled you can just press new game which will show your ship in space and it should be alright.
http://files.filefront.com/screen27jpg/;13...;/fileinfo.html

#2
i do not know how to move the menus to the sides or adjust the thing in the center/bottom of the page. Either way the graphics are amazing. You can barely notice the pixels now.

Anyhow i think it looks good.

*******************************************************************************
Now the real question. Will this get me banned? i have modified perfoptions.ini, cameras.ini, freelancer.ini, fonts.ini, and rich_fonts.ini.
*******************************************************************************

http://files.filefront.com/screen28jpg/;13...;/fileinfo.html

http://files.filefront.com/screen29jpg/;13...;/fileinfo.html

(Realigned menus)
http://files.filefront.com/screen30jpg/;13...;/fileinfo.html

No more pixelated explosions!!!
http://files.filefront.com/screen31jpg/;13...;/fileinfo.html

http://files.filefront.com/screen32jpg/;13...;/fileinfo.html

http://files.filefront.com/screen33jpg/;13...;/fileinfo.html

[Cyclops]

Here is what working for me.

Now, go to:
My Documents\My Games\Freelancer\
and edit PerfOptions.ini.

Look for these lines:
[Display]
size= xxxx, xxx
color_bpp= 32
depth_bpp= 24

Change the numbers after "size" to set your resolution. (1920, 1080) <- be aware of the space before 1080

Next, go to gameDir/DATA and edit cameras.ini

You'll want to change the first FOVX value, or the game won't be playable. I recommend 63.36 for 16:10 resolutions and 68.88 for 16:9 resolutions. 1920x1080 is 16:9.

EDIT: you HAVE to start a new game after you edit theese. or else it looks like the .ini's are beeing overwritten.

[triple88a]

i tried 69 for fovx cam which seems to work perfectly

Let see what the admins say and i will be glad to post my files online.