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stitzlein · Mar 11, 2003, 10:12 AM

has anyone played medal of honor on the apple cinema hd? i'm getting one today, and i'd like to play MOH full screen. i know i can create a custom config at 1900*1200, but my computer (1.42+radeon9000) would crawl at that res. what other res options should i try in the config?

thanks ahead of time!

AssassyN · Mar 11, 2003, 07:35 PM

Well with LCD's, they can appear really grainy when ran anywhere aside from their native resolution, therefore I wouldn't recommend running it fullscreen unless at it's native res., or exactly half of it's native res., which will probably be too low. However, you can run it in a boxed window I believe (don't know how, though) at different resolutions, but it won't take up the whole screen. Just try tinkering around w/ the settings! Good luck!

Hydra · Mar 11, 2003, 08:12 PM

Originally posted by AssassyN:
Well with LCD's, they can appear really grainy when ran anywhere aside from their native resolution, therefore I wouldn't recommend running it fullscreen unless at it's native res., or exactly half of it's native res., which will probably be too low. However, you can run it in a boxed window I believe (don't know how, though) at different resolutions, but it won't take up the whole screen. Just try tinkering around w/ the settings! Good luck!

I'm running it on my 20" CD @ 1024x640 widecreen down from the 1680x1050 native rez (too much for my GF3 to handle in some games and not get choppy) and it looks fantastic. I have played Quake3 and MOHAA also at this rez and it looks perfect - I actually had to check my settings to make sure it was running at the reduced rez it looked so good.

The added benefit is that when I played these games on my old Apple 17 LCD @1280x1024 it was more taxing on my system and the big 20" CD in wide-screen looks more visually stunning even though it is running at a lower non-native rez.

-Jerry C

AssassyN · Mar 11, 2003, 09:52 PM

Really?! Wow, very impressive indeed...that's very good news!

Hydra · Mar 11, 2003, 10:51 PM

Originally posted by AssassyN:
Really?! Wow, very impressive indeed...that's very good news!

Yeah, I was just switching from 1680x1050 to 1024x640 on my desktop and I admit it looks kinda fuzzy at the non-native resolution (kinda like a mediocre quality CRT) - but who buys a Cinema Display to go to smaller rez on the desktop. In Games it is almost completely unnoticeable and actually may have an advantage of doing a kinda low-rent AA effect by blurring the distinction between the pixels (LCD's perfectly defined pixels can cause text to look a little blocky while CRT's tend to look smoother because the pixels bleed more and have a less defined border). The short of it is that I think it may actually be an advantage in a game situation.

-Jerry C.

Jansar · Mar 14, 2003, 02:21 AM

Does it really go to widescreen? I have a 23" monitor and games like Quake always scale down. It sucks like that.

DBvader · Mar 14, 2003, 02:35 AM

isnt there a widescreen res in quake 3?

DBvader · Mar 14, 2003, 02:46 AM

there is one, its just super low res...nevermind.

Hydra · Mar 14, 2003, 03:46 AM

Originally posted by DBvader:
there is one, its just super low res...nevermind.

No, you can alter it to any rez available that your card/display combo can handle. In the home folder /library/application support folder you should find a quake 3 folder with a file named q3config.cfg. Make a copy of this config and put it in a safe place (in case you fubar it) and open it in a text editor like BBedit or something.

Pick some rez you have available (I will use 1024x640 as my example, you can use whatever)

Look for the line"seta r_customheight " and change the value to "640"
and then find "seta r_customwidth" and change to "1024"
Next change seta r_customaspect "0" to "1"
Then look for seta r_mode "?" (not really a ? but the number depends on the last set resolution) and change to "-1".
If these lines aren't there you can just type them in at the bottom.

Mine looks exactly like the following:

seta r_mode "-1"
seta r_customwidth "1024"
seta r_customheight "640"
seta r_customaspect "1"

- you can cut and paste it over yours or just add to the bottom if they aren't there. Remember to put your own desired rezes in place of mine.

Save the file and launch Q3A (the intro screen may go away but don't worry you should now have wide-screen in the game. This is a custom rez and it won't show up in the video options and as long as you don't go and futz with the video options it should stick. Be careful as a resolution your system can't handle may cause a crash or something so I take no responsibility for your actions

-Jerry C

Jansar · Mar 14, 2003, 01:31 PM

It works, thank you! (I got your PM, by the way)