Download both Punkbuster and Battlefield 1942 GameSpy patch v1.61 from the site below, otherwise it won't find any servers. This makes the game load in under five seconds. Guys, keep in mind you'll need to download the Gamespy fix as well before you can play the game online in 2019. 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 1942\BF1942.exe' +restart 1
Just use this as your shortcut command line: Set the file to read-only so the game doesn't override your changes.įinally, to make the game less annoying to run, you can turn off all those unskippable intro videos. Edit the following file in Wordpad:Ĭ:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 1942\Mods\bf1942\Settings\nĮdit the line renderer.fieldOfView 1, and set it to the appropriate fraction for your wider FOV (the default 1 = 4:3). Once you set a widescreen resolution, you need to change the FOV. But that was because I had a custom 75hz resolution selected in the nvidia control panel - at native resolution and refresh rate it made 1920x1080 an option. As this post on EA Answers states, there are some patches that need to be applied in order to play the game (all needed info is on that link).
When I first started to play the game only lower 4:3 resolutions were visible. Since the initial release though, some problems appeared, and were solved with fixes. After two days of playing this, I've found there's an easy way to get this behaving nicely on a widescreen LCD.
