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Has anyone been able to test this on a triple setup like a TripleHead2Go or an Eyefinity? I have the hardware, but not the game.

Been frantically looking for my CD to test just this, but all I can find is Age of Mytho & AOE3 :cry:
The screenshot 3 posts above is a good omen anyway. Excellent stuff !

@FatJacky: I have the feeling that it shouldn't be very much harder than patching another version of the executable for the expansion pack. I'll let you know when I've had a chance to do this analysis.
@Ibrin: That should work as long as your windows is in Hor/Ver span mode, which Vista and 7 don't support anymore. DualView (TripleView) won't work as each of those screens has their own resolution and AoE just handles 1 (the primary) of them,
@Cornettes: Run the new (age2_x1_1680x1050.exe) executable. I dont' know where it has to be, but it could be that it has to be in either the main folder or age2_x1 (that's the 2 locations I know that work).
@everyone wanting to donate: My paypal account is boekabart@gmail.com . As much as I appreciate all the positive reactions here, tangible support is welcome, obviously (might help me explain to my better half why I spend so much time on this :P )

AND ONCE AGAIN: ALWAYS GO TO OPTIONS AND SET THE RIGHT RESOLUTION!! (1280x1024 for anything 960 or higher, 1024x768 for other)

The Matrox TripleHead2Go and the ATI Eyefinity present Windows with one large single display, so this should work in Surround or Eyefinity.

Posted this one the home page, and posted your PayPal link.

Has this been tested for 2560x1600? I'm about to test it myself over the weekend, as work permits.

Congratulations to Boekabart though!

Has this been tested for 2560x1600?

Vertical resolutions larger than 1536 are not supported yet because of the way the vertical stretching works, by the way!

Working on it...

Update!
[list]* Support for 1.0c and 1.0e executables. No support for version without expansion pack (yet).[/list:u]
[list]* Support for vertical resolutions higher than 1536 (I think unlimited). Proof below in the form of a 1680x2100 screenshot[/list:u]
[list]* Fixed vertical position of top-left text[/list:u]
[list]* AoE2Wide creates a batch file in the game folder and the desktop that allows you to easily start a widescreen version of the game, without having to check the resolution in the options screen all the time. Also, on Vista an win7, this will try to kill explorer.exe before the game, and start it again afterwards, in order to fix the palette issue (which is not a patch issue, by the way).[/list:u]
[list]* Created an MSI installer. http://boekabart.dyndns.org/aoe2wide/latestpatcher/AoE2WideSetup.msi[/list:u]
[list]* UAC: AoE2Wide.exe now requests elevation, and is therefore able to write directly to the game folder. Note that it will not overwrite any original files, nor abuse the elevation for something else.[/list:u]

Little note about the support for different versions: If you have multiple versions alongside each other, AoE2Wide will find them all (all supported, that is) and create multiple patched exes, one for each version. Also, the batchfiles will be duplicate. If you name the executables, for example, age2_x1_1.0e.exe and age2_x1_1.0c.exe, the 'suffix' will appear back in the patched-exe and shortcut names.

Known issues:
[list]* Only expasion pack (conquerors) works at the moment[/list:u]
[list]* The vertical position during recorded game playback seems incorrect[/list:u]
[list]* The background and especially the Load/Save dialogs don't look good yet due to the way the images are stretched now[/list:u]

If you want to support the past and future development of this patch, please visit http://boekabart.dyndns.org/aoe2wide/donate.html where you can find a PayPal donate button. Thank you very much!

Thanks man

Works very well!

Now I enjoy my full res 1920x1200!

As I promised at AOK Heaven, here is the FullHD gaming @ 46" Samsung LED :rockout :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:




Thanks for the patch. You can use the photos for promoting the patch, thus getting more donations :)

Edit: It would be better if you add pskill.exe to the patch.

Thanks

It would be better if you add pskill.exe to the patch.

I don't MS allows me to redist their programs just like that....