Guide: Playing Patrician III in High Resolutions (Widescreen, HD, etc)

[Raydell]

Dear fellow Patrician III players!

Have you ever wanted to play Patrician III in higher resolutions fit for modern widescreen displays?

If so, please have a look at my guide on how to apply a wide selection of custom resolutions to Patrician III in a few simple steps (or even create your own resolution mods in not-so-few but still fairly doable steps):

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=382413909
Hope it helps!

[wadebren]

tried raydells high res pack but dosent work for me.

[wadebren]

Raydells' res pack totaly screwed up my game. i uninstalled from steam, UNISTALLED STEAM, reinstalled steam and game. checked integrity of game files all is ok. but when game 1st starts gaphics test says that 3 resolutions are not available thereforegame wont start. res patcher is non existant, when i try to download the res pack again, it has option to save to file, but it is empty when i try. to boot game was working great, but i wanted a higher resolution so battles would be more managable. been playing patrician for 17 years, played p2 1st. only problem was patrol crash, patch fised that. now i cant even start game.

[Raydell]

I'm very sorry to hear you experienced problems Wadebren, but the res pack can't alter your game permanently as it doesn't change anything in the Windows registry, it only adds/overwrites some files in the Patrician III folder. If you remove those files and restore the originals, everything should work like before.

To remove the res pack, you just need to delete the "scripts" and "images" folders from your Patrician III directory and replace the pack's Patrician3.exe and MSVCRTD.dll with the originals. If you didn't make any backups of these then just delete them and make Steam verify the integrity of the game files - it will redownload the missing ones.

There's no need to uninstall Patrician, let alone Steam itself. Especially since Steam's uninstallation method leaves newly added files in place, so when you tell it to uninstall Patrician III, it doesn't remove the "scripts" and "images" folders, you need to delete those manually.

Also, when you install or reinstall Patrician, it tends to have issues starting up for the first time but that has nothing to do with resolution pack. Just make sure you try running it through the desktop shortcut created by Steam. In my experience, after a fresh install, trying to launch the exe directly gives an Application Load error. But if you run the Steam shortcut first, then it should work.
If it still doesn't, then try running the P3Setup.exe (in the Patrician III folder) and make it test all the default resolutions. If they're already marked OK, then select the Reset option and make it run the tests again.

That's all the troubleshooting tips I can think of off the top of my head. If that doesn't fix your game then let me know what error you're getting.

[wadebren]

hey thanks for reply. i tried iut all 2x. i just cant get a higher res. if you are in us you can call me at 504-600-4311 24/7 maby hold my hand and guied me. i play now on my pvt game, i have 2 disc. one for 18+ years. been playing for that long. windows 10 is a problem. for awhile i only got the center 1/3 of the screen. than one day, it worked. but i tried your way on steam and my personal game. thanks.

[schmiguelino]

Hey, still active here? Tried the 1920x1080 resolution pack, it works, but then i have no interface in the game :D

[Laborate]

Publicado originalmente por schmiguelino:

Hey, still active here? Tried the 1920x1080 resolution pack, it works, but then i have no interface in the game :D

same issue here

[Death]

Agreed. The resolution works, but not the interface on the right. I can't do anything. For instance, I see the city 1920x1080

I don't know if it can help but the real problem is scripts/screenGame.ini. Without it it shifts to the left with the old resolution, but it still works

[Death]

I tried to "play" with these files but I do not understand anything. From what I can see 1920x1080 seems like going to 2400 or similar when applied. That's why for example the name of the city I am in is not top left but top center (a little bit right).
So for all the stuff like Church etc the image is not in the middle of the screen but a little bit right bottom.
Moreover I tried to change screengame.ini at the start where it says 800 x 600 with 1920x1080. It kinda worked. It showed "empty" spaces in the screen where we should have stuff like the top bar, the minimap, the commands and options in game, so all the stuff on the right. So it was unplayable but it kinda opened the spaces we need to "fill".

Help

[BabyCakes]

is there a 4k version of the res packs?

[Bjørn]

Mine crashes on the opening video cutscene or something, I just reinstalled the game to try this out, installed the mod, but same thing happens, game crashes on start up.
Is it because I run a 4k res screen?

[Aulekkercy]

I love it!! Thank you so much! It changed my graphic like magic!!

[strohhut87]

At 1920x1080 the map on the right side of the window is missing. Is there a fix?

[Grapery]

Just downloaded and it works like a charm! My only problem is, the font size are too small under 1920x1080 resolution and it is killing my eyes when playing. Is it possible to enlarge the font size of in-game text?

[Ender's games]

This was great. It worked perfectly fine for 1440p. Thank you to whoever prepared it.

[northern_cross]

Great Job works like a charm...I modified the files from the http://web.archive.org/web/20061020070725/http://www.ascaron.org/patrician3/Patrician3Patch_v11bBeta.zip (archive.org) link and used your instructions.