Widescreen HUD Stretch Fix?

[Ultimate Cookie]

Anyone know of a fix for the stretched hud in 1920x1080? I tried searching google and came up with nothing.

[10thSubLevel]

Very late reply to this question, but I was looking for the answer to this question today, and this thread showed up in my Google search results. I managed to fix the stretched HUD by using the Quake 4 4X AI Textures mod that can be downloaded from here: https://www.moddb.com/mods/quake-4-4x-ai-textures-by-deeppurple1968/addons/quake-4-4x-ai-texures.

[Ultimate Cookie]

For Quake 4 and Doom 3 I got used to playing in 4:3 and 20+GB just to fix the HUD in widescreen is a bit much. I think I found playing in a 4:3 resolution made mouse aiming more consistant last time I played too.

[hexaae]

Originally posted by 10thSubLevel:

Very late reply to this question, but I was looking for the answer to this question today, and this thread showed up in my Google search results. I managed to fix the stretched HUD by using the Quake 4 4X AI Textures mod that can be downloaded from here: https://www.moddb.com/mods/quake-4-4x-ai-textures-by-deeppurple1968/addons/quake-4-4x-ai-texures.

From the pics on MODDB, the HUD is not aspect ratio corrected for 16:9+ and looks still stretched... ??
"Low-res" (blurred) and "stretched" are two different things.

[Wizzard]

hey, try my hud fix: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UpcK-oSTHGuKXd5EY4xYOnMT_ApGOfMo/view?usp=sharing
I haven't fully tested it, try it and let me know
copy files in Quake 4 folder

[hexaae]

Will it correct also horizontally stretched aspect ratio on widescreen (16:9...) or is just another up-scaled + sharpened texture pack?

[Wizzard]

Originally posted by hexaae:

Will it correct also horizontally stretched aspect ratio on widescreen (16:9...) or is just another up-scaled + sharpened texture pack?

look my screens https://ibb.co/gtKGjhr
https://ibb.co/6ngZmwm

[Wizzard]

but you must undersand, it's not fully tested

[videogamenoob]

Originally posted by Wizzard:

but you must undersand, it's not fully tested

Works great!

[Metal Maniac]

Can´t understand the Problem. I can set the Resolution to 1920x1080 in the Game and it looks like it should....

[Tomle1202]

Originally posted by Wizzard:

hey, try my hud fix: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UpcK-oSTHGuKXd5EY4xYOnMT_ApGOfMo/view?usp=sharing
I haven't fully tested it, try it and let me know
copy files in Quake 4 folder

Hey there! A little bit late to the party but I tried your fix and it worked great. I played through half of the game and no problem was found.

I took the liberty of adding your fix to Quake 4's page on pcgamingwiki.com. I hope you don't mind (I credited your Steam username).

[Wizzard]

Originally posted by Tomle1202:

Originally posted by Wizzard:

hey, try my hud fix: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UpcK-oSTHGuKXd5EY4xYOnMT_ApGOfMo/view?usp=sharing
I haven't fully tested it, try it and let me know
copy files in Quake 4 folder

Hey there! A little bit late to the party but I tried your fix and it worked great. I played through half of the game and no problem was found.

I took the liberty of adding your fix to Quake 4's page on pcgamingwiki.com. I hope you don't mind (I credited your Steam username).

actually need to say thanks to the author of the Quake 4 4X AI Textures mod by deeppurple1968, I just pulled out the necessary files and tweaked a bit, just what I need for Non Stretched UI, not the whole mod

[hexaae]

Originally posted by Wizzard:

hey, try my hud fix: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UpcK-oSTHGuKXd5EY4xYOnMT_ApGOfMo/view?usp=sharing
I haven't fully tested it, try it and let me know
copy files in Quake 4 folder

Copied the files overwriting the originals but can't see differences... UI is still stretched in 1920x1080 including menus.
I play the game in Italian language, maybe it works only for English or some .pk4 overwrite changes? All .pk4 files have a date before 2018...
I expected also fixed menus like this: https://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/45/44819/Quake4_2020_02_22_19_38_04_432.png
Uh, maybe you included only fixed HUD icons (which look proportioned indeed)?

[Wizzard]

Originally posted by hexaae:

Originally posted by Wizzard:

hey, try my hud fix: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UpcK-oSTHGuKXd5EY4xYOnMT_ApGOfMo/view?usp=sharing
I haven't fully tested it, try it and let me know
copy files in Quake 4 folder

Copied the files overwriting the originals but can't see differences... UI is still stretched in 1920x1080 including menus.
I play the game in Italian language, maybe it works only for English or some .pk4 overwrite changes? All .pk4 files have a date before 2018...
I expected also fixed menus like this: https://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/45/44819/Quake4_2020_02_22_19_38_04_432.png
Uh, maybe you included only fixed HUD icons (which look proportioned indeed)?

I can’t say anything, I’m an amateur in this matter, I just did as described above. it was a long time ago, as far as I remember there is a widescreen fix for HUD icons only

[hexaae]

Ok thanks, I'll sort this out

[hexaae]

Found why... I was using a modified autoexec.cfg, these lines seem to be required to make the game load and use the extra textures:

seta image_usePrecompressedTextures "1"
seta image_useCompression "1" 

P.S.
The directories with the textures can be compressed in a zip file renamed zzzpak_hud.pk4