Widescreen Gaming Forum

For some first tests it runs great now! Everything functional on 1280x800.

Thanks a lot!!

Hi all,
nice job with the aoe-wide patch boekabart, you have somehow revive the game :D . It is a pleasure to see that there are lots of guys who still care about AoE2 too, great community.
Now, i was wondering if anyone has tried ATI's eyefinity at all, any "crazy" resolution like 2560*2048 and above for example? just for curiosity's sake!
Thanks, a greek fun :)

Hey all

I have to say a big thank you to Boekbart for this! It is all very exciting! I have been wanting this for a year now as it is about the only old game I am interested in that I can’t get Widescreen. I play all these old games on my Netbook at 1024 X 600. Now I may be a bit of a dunce (its true) I am not sure how to go about installing this!

I get an error that “no original exe found for patch file”

Now I can see that u have to have quite a specific version of the game for this to work and tbh I have no idea what version I have! Is there a way to find out? I have no idea where my original disk is as I used a fixed exe for this game long long ago and put it in a back up folder with all my other old games.

I am looking at your DL page for the various files and there are a lot of files there and I have no idea what I need! I got the age2_x1.exe and replaced mine with it just in case and have the

AoW2Widesetup.msi &
AoE2Widesetup_r40.msi

Which should I have or what should I have. I f u could let me know which files I need that would be great!

Thank you for any help and information you can give me!

Sorry for the quick post. This is the 4th time I have tried to get a message to appear here :( Patch threw out an error when patching but the batch file seems to work just fine! Thing is I am running the game on a Netbook in 1024 X 600 and I assumed (hoped) that I would not have teh grey box to the right of the map and top right of the screen as 1024 width was an original mode for the game. Can the be changed as in have the tool bars or what ever you call them in 1024 whilst using 1024 X 600 res?

Thank you in advance and a HIGE thank you for the patch and your help getting it working for everyone! This has been a long time coming and I had given up on it tbh! I think you sir!!!!!

@Dom01: What you got was a warning, not an error ;) Usability issue on my part.
About your resolution issue: What I think you are saying is that you would like the 1024x768 resolution patched to 1024x600. While I think this should is possible (you'd have to change the source code a tiny bit), you'd actually get LESS area for the game screen: The bottom GUI part of the screen is a lot bigger in 1024x768 than it is in 800x600. So in your case, I'd advise you to use the 800x600 horizontally widened to 1024x600 (just as I do on my netbook, on which I don't play but just test). If I've misunderstood you, please make a screenshot of your current screen (prtscrn) and post a link to it here and explain again what your issue is.

Wow this guy did something legendary if u ask me! I thought I'd never be able to play this game widescreen and I'm here to confirm that in the mist of RTS going to lala, our AoEII is finally in widescreen, thanks to boekabart! Someone also did a Total Annihilation Widescreen Mod also and there are the true RTS compared to today's CNC4 and others that went downhill - thanks to certain big companies.

Much thanks boekabart and thanks to widescreengamingforum for making a way for games to survive the screen format evolution! BTW, M$, AoE3 and its limits sux!

One:

Thanks Man. It worked great on 1.0 version of executable you have provided. I am now able to play on high resolution of 1920 X 1080. It's great to see so much in the big screen.

But its not able identify my 1.0c version of age2_x1. It says it does not match the size as expected. I have checked my cracked age2_x1.exe for version 1.0c. It's of size 2699264 bytes. However AoE2Wide_1.0c.patch has the size 2699309 bytes. That is why It's not patching my 1.0c version executable. Can you please help or provide original 1.0c version of age2_x1.exe also, on which we should run the patch?


Thanks again.

Is this patch compatible also with resolution 2048x1152?

Please ignore my question on 1.0c exe, as I downloaded the BSK version of 1.0c exe from net and it worked.

For those, who are facing the same problem...here is link to the BSK 1.0c version of age2_x1 exe with NO CD crack. You should copy this into AOE-2 main folder before runnning AoE2Wide exe for wide screen patch.

http://www.filecrop.com/4120367/index.html

Donated few bucks to your paypal account Boekabart. Too good a job you have done on this.

Thanks

Can you please help or provide original 1.0c version of age2_x1.exe also, on which we should run the patch?

First of all, thank you for your donation! I'd like for you to send me your executable (rar-ed, boekabart at gmail.com) so that I can add support for it, is that ok?
As for obtainging 'my' version: It'd commonly called the "BsK" version, my best suggestion for you is Google for it, you'll find it. Easier even is to go to gamepark http://www.gamepark.eu/en/Game.asp?H=5 and download the 1.0e there (it's a trainer-disabled version of 1.0c), it's compatible out of the box. Good luck!