Forcing Screen Resolution?

PhydeauxPhydeaux Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10771Members
edited December 2002 in Tech Support
<div class="IPBDescription">Help me force 1600x1200 OGL</div> For some odd reason, Half-Life refuses to save my resolution preference, forcing me to manually set it each time I play. I'd have no problem with this, but it makes using All Seeing Eye impractical, since I end up playing at the lowest resolution.

I've checked lists of command line options, and not found anything (yet) that will force the game into a particular resolution. Ideally, I'm trying to force 1600x1200 in openGL. Any takers?
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  • RokiyoRokiyo A.K.A. .::FeX::. Revenge Join Date: 2002-10-10 Member: 1471Members, Constellation
    Hmmm... I've tried searching around for the specific file that stores your video settings in my hl folder with no luck...

    It sounds to me like whatever file that is has probably been set as read only in windows...

    I would've thought that file would be config.cfg but i couldn't see anything in there along those lines...
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  • FireStormFireStorm Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7390Members
    It's in the registry.

    create a file named res.reg for example (but with the .reg extension) and write this there:
    <!--c1--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1-->REGEDIT4

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Half-Life\Settings]
    "EngineType"=dword:00000002
    "EngineModeW"=dword:00000640
    "EngineModeH"=dword:000004B0
    "EngineModeBPP"=dword:00000010
    "EngineModeCaptured"=dword:00000001
    "EngineMode"=dword:0000000a<!--c2--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--ec2-->

    Now execute the file each time before running HL. Maybe the all seeing eye can do this for you. Try it.
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  • playaplaya Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7007Members
    i see no reason why someone will want to use 1600x1200 (of course unless ur have a 21incher), stick with 1024x768 works fine for me....

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  • PhydeauxPhydeaux Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10771Members
    edited December 2002
    Thanks, Firestorm and Revenge. I will give that a shot.

    Playa, as a matter of fact I DO own a 21 inch monitor. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> But that is beside the point. As it stands, the game defaults to the -lowest- resolution (320 x something), which is unacceptable.
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  • SilentErAsErSilentErAsEr Join Date: 2002-12-05 Member: 10483Members, Constellation
    simple in ase right click on the game/mod your playing move down to custom config add
    -w 1600 to the cmd line happy gameing...i use 1600x1200 witrh a 19 inch mdl graphics so clear woot
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