How to enhance graphics and/or enable wide(er)screen for SC1

[TheJudge24]

Ok, so there is a lot of scattered information across these forums and other places on the interwebs, so in an attempt to consolidate all of this information, I am posting it here in this thread into 10 easy steps. Most of it is copied and pasted. I'm not trying to take credit away from anyone, just trying to put it all in one spot because I spent at least 2 hours scouring/trying to understand everything. So here is the quick and dirty way to do this. Please note however, you may want to tweak some of the below settings to your own liking.

Step 1. Go to the installation directory for Splinter Cell.
Step 2. Open SplinterCell.ini.
Step 3. Replace everything under [D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice] with this:

Translucency=True
VolumetricLighting=True
ShinySurfaces=True
HighDetailActors=True
UsePrecaching=True
UseMipmapping=True
UseTrilinear=True
UseMultitexture=True
UsePageFlipping=True
UseFullscreen=False
UseGammaCorrection=True
DetailTextures=True
UseTripleBuffering=True
UsePrecache=True
Use32BitTextures=True
HardwareSkinning=False
AdapterNumber=-1
ReduceMouseLag=False
UseTripleBuffering=True
; ForceShadowMode flag : 0==projector, 1==buffer, unspecified==auto-detect
ForceShadowMode=1
EmulateGF2Mode=1
FullScreenVideo=True
UseVsync=True

Step 4. Save.
Step 5. Close the .ini and then right click on it, go to properties, put a check in "Read-only", and click "OK".
Step 6. Open SplinterCellUser.ini.
Step 7. Replace everything under [Engine.EPCGameOptions] with this:

AnimatedGeometry=True
ShadowLevel=3
LightMapsLevel=3
TextureLevel=3
Resolution=1920x1080
AmbiantVolume=99
VoicesVolume=99
MusicVolume=99
AudioVirt=0
Sound3DAcc=false
EAX=false
InvertMouse=False
FireEquipGun=False
MouseSensitivity=50
ShadowResolution=3
EnableFadeOut=0
FadeOutNearPlane=1000
FadeOutFarPlane=1250
SFXVolume=99
Brightness=50
Gamma=50
EffectsQuality=3
FadeOut=0
VidMem=2
GraphicsCaps=2
EAX_Capable=False
AntiAliasing=3

(Comment: For Resolution=, enter your monitor's actual resolution or your desired resolution. In this example, my resolution is 1920x1080 so that is what I entered)

Step 8. Set DesiredFOV and Default FOV under [Engine.PlayerController] = to one of the following based on your monitor's ratio:

4:3 --- 75
15:9 --- 87.61661884
16:10 --- 85.2812718522
16:9 --- 91.3154482287

For me personally I have:

DesiredFOV=91.3154482287
DefaultFOV=91.3154482287

For Reference:
15:9 Resolutions
1280x768

16:10 Resolutions
1280x800
1440x900
1680x1050
1920x1200

16:9 Resolutions
1280x720
1920x1080

Step 9. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for SplinterCellUser.ini.

Step 10. Open nVidia control panel (or go to similar location for AMD cards) and enable FXAA either Globally or just for Splinter Cell.

One down side to changing the FOV is that the mouse/cursor becomes misaligned. I have not found any way to fix this. For example, with the keypads that you come across throughout the game, button coverage with your cursor is as follows:

100% - Normal coverage. The entire button has mouse-click detection.
75% - Normal mouse-click detection except for the right quarter of the button.
50% - The left half of the button is selectable.
0% - There is no mouse-click detection on the button. You must click the left area beside the button.

First column
4:3 - 100%
16:9 - 0%
16:10 - 50%

Second column
4:3 - 100%
16:9 - 50%
16:10 - 75%

Third column
4:3 - 100%
16:9 - 100%
16:10 - 100%

[Trivvy™]

|_BATMAN_| の投稿を引用：

What if i am playing from Uplay? Any help :3 cuz i got the game for free as you might understand :D

You do the exact same stuff, just look in the relevant uPlay folder(s).

[Gopnikolai]

I have the normal edition and it doesn't get picked up by geforce, why? I've tried manually selecting the direct game folder, the one that that is in, the one that THAT is in, and the one that THAT is in and tried to refresh my game list but still nothing. It also doesn't pick up Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time (Probably too old but still). Another thing i tried was putting the launcher/exe/game icon onto my desktop and refreshing it again with that as one of the refresh location but that failed too, can someone please help me fix this??

[Vitos268]

thanks you ! c:

[Ricsnake]

Thanks for the fixes man!Your awesome!

[j4ck_fl4sh_3k]

This has made the game look the best it has ever been

[j4ck_fl4sh_3k]

Can we Sticky this plz! thank you.

[Wobb the Great and Terrible!!!!!]

Thanks OP, that worked great for my Uplay version. I can finally play this classic again now.

But does anybody know if pandora tomorrow works well on modern systems? I was thinking maybe not, since even Ubisoft don't sell it any more. And if it doesn't work it's not worth me digging through my old boxes of games to try and find it out.

[manfreds_zorn]

@wobbler:

Yes, it works, at least on Windows 7.
Try it for yourself, you just have to apply this fix: http://www.jiri-dvorak.cz/scellpt/
(latest version 0.05)

[ventross]

help i want to save the SplinterCell.ini but when i click save its says you dont have permision to open this file. the permision can be get by owner or Administrator (only i can use pc, and have Administrator)

[Gruff Donaar]

ventross pvpro.com の投稿を引用：

help i want to save the SplinterCell.ini but when i click save its says you dont have permision to open this file. the permision can be get by owner or Administrator (only i can use pc, and have Administrator)

Try right-clicking the file, and press 'run as administrator.'

[Jaxx]

Thank you. I will try it when I play the game for the very first time.
(Played Blacklist with Ubi account, but never Splinter Cell 1 or the other parts.)
I only will play games with 16:9...

PS: Any screenshots so we can compare? :)

[MarrkuRevan]

Does anybody have a fix for the Game not Saving??

[Jaxx]

Not working...
(I did not Step 10 because there is no NVIDIA whatever...)
But i got error message, game does not start.
"Critical Error
Empty class for object None

History: "

At least I can change resolution to 1920 x 1080 :)

[arhum]

Any way to increase the LOD/ Render Distance? The Model Popping is just terrible here, i see enemies changing forms almost right infront of me, the .inis has no option to adjust this so i guess hex editing the exe is the only solution. but how?

[Xadry]

Hey thx dude, only a question... i don't have any nvidia support, that will ruin my graphic settings?