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Hoppycactus
7 years ago

Command and Conquer Generals Resolution Refuses to Change

So I'm getting extremely pissed off at this point. I ordered the Command and Conquer Ultimate Collection in order to play Generals and Zero Hour, and I wanted to play it in full screen, as any sane person would. However, I was unable to change the resolution no matter how much I tried. I want to change it to 1920 x 1080 because that fits my monitor, but it simply will not comply. I've followed every tutorial I could find to the letter and yet still no success, those annoying bars at the sides of the screen are still there! I have tried to change resolution in game, no success. I have gone into the files and edited the resolution in options.ini, no success. I have even downloaded the widescreen patch, guess what? NO SUCCESS. I have even tried other resolutions such as 1366 x 768 but the game refuses to accept that either, it only plays on 800 x 600, which for me, shatters the immersion and is unplayable. It's not just Generals, either. It's Renegade and Red Alert 2 as well, and I'm willing to wager the case is the same with other games. Does anyone have any reason for why the games act like this and do you have a solution to it? Please, I really want to play these magnificent games in full screen on my monitor. If I sound snarky and rude at the moment, forgive me, but please understand that I have been looking for a solution to this issue for upwards of 3 hours at this point. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

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  • Nyerguds's avatar
    Nyerguds
    Hero+
    7 years ago

    @Hoppycactus 

    Do realize that there's a huge difference between playing RA2 in high resolution and playing Generals in high resolution.

    • In RA2, the larger your resolution, the more viewport you get in-game, and the more your units look like ants.
    • In Generals, the larger your resolution, the more you see how low-poly the models are.

    Honestly, I don't understand people's obsession with trying to force games into resolutions they were never made for. Case in point, in C&C1, The maximum map size is only 1488x1488, so playing on 1920x1080 would always give problems.

    That all said... I'm not sure how you can't do it in RA2; it's literally just editing the ini file in the game folder.

    For the rest...

    Command & Conquer 1, Red Alert 1 and Tiberian Sun have all been upgraded with community-created unofficial patches that fix a lot of their bugs and compatibility problems. For Red Alert 2, Generals and Renegade there are some more general patches that solve a bunch of their problems. You can find them here:

    Command & Conquer 1:

    Red Alert 1:

    Tiberian Sun:

    Red Alert 2:

    • I advise installing the CnCNet online play installer for RA2/YR. Even if you're not interested in online play, it comes with a bunch of automatic fixes, and has a configuration tool which offers multiple choices in graphics output libraries, so if one doesn't work you can just try if some of the other options do the trick. Said tool most likely includes resolution stuff too.

    Generals:

    • GenTool seems to be the main patch for Generals these days. The website is kind of vague on what it does besides restoring multiplayer and adding anti-cheat, but I heard it does a lot to make it work better on modern OSes too.

    Renegade:

    • Kind of like the Generals one, I don't really know the specifics on this, but the Tiberian Technologies patch seems to be where most of the Renegade patching is done.

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