4:3 aspect ratio

[Charlemagne]

I've been playing this game for years with my 1920 x 1080 widescreen monitor. It is fine, except it is STRETCHED. I recently installed it on a laptop, which also has a long screen, however for performance reasons I had to choose a smaller resolution and the one recommended by the game was a 4:3 ratio. The game has two black bands at each side, but besides being a bit tiny, it looks awesome. Crisp and not stretched.
I've been trying to set a 4:3 ratio on my desktop, but when I choose a 4:3 ratio the game still fills the screen. When I tried setting it to 1440:1080 in preferences.cfg, it is still stretched and occupies all the screen, and also looks worse. Question: How can I set a true 4:3 ratio (black bands on the sides and all?)

[Şeyma]

when i swapped to a nvidia gpu it stopped stretching so i guess there is some setting in the graphics card that can change it

[Inardesco]

Have you changed the widescreen= 1 line in tge cfg?

If you change it to 0 it should bumpfrom 16:9 to 4:3

[Charlemagne]

I have tried that, but for some reason on my desktop the game always expands to fill the screen no matter what resolution, the only thing that changes is that it looks more or less stretched across, and also looks wuzzy on some resolutions.

[Inardesco]

You sure you havent'changed when it was on read only?

Also, try looking in your Nvidia GPU panel because it may override your .cfg settings.

Aside from that, you should also be able to find the aspect ratio setting within the games options. EDIT; Nvm, aspect ratio doesn't sit within the games option, there is the ability to tick widescreen on and off again though.

[numetalkid]

I was finally able to fix this using a workaround.

At first the problem was that the UI behaves completely independently from whatever you put into your preferences.cfg. Those lines only affect in-game resolutions, not UI. What the UI in fact does is it'll stretch to fit any aspect ratio that's wider than 4:3. Meaning, if you wanna get rid of UI stretch, your native resolution has to be 4:3.

So I did that on my Mac (which, natively you can only do 1024x768 but it's no problem because I think it's the base resolution for 2006's M2TW). And UI stretching was gone. What's more is if you don't enable widescreen at this resolution, in-game graphics as well as movies run in the correct aspect ratio as well.

So now the whole game is stretching-free, which happens to be one of my worst pet peeves ever. Yay.