Widescreen fix

[Fantômaz]

Is there a way to increase the resolution to 1920x1080 while maintaining vanilla graphics?

[Gequi]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/9010/discussions/0/846960628329529873/

or

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Return_to_Castle_Wolfenstein#Widescreen_resolution

[Kritzburgh]

Assuming you're in the middle of a playthrough, the Knightmare 1.42 patch I'm pretty sure will let you use your current saves and autosaves while also giving you widescreen and native resolution support. If not, you can load into the level you were on using the /spdevmap command followed by the levelname (example: /spdevmap tram), which you can find in this cheat guide under the heading Map List: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=166020845

To download the 1.42 patch, all you have to do is extract the files into your Return to Castle Wolfenstein folder under Steam/steamapps/common. When you boot up the game again, you should have modern resolution settings to choose from in your in-game settings.

Of note, you'll probably see some outdated advice telling you that you can simply change the resolution through the wolfconfig.cfg file. I don't recommend doing that, as it causes crashes at the end of many different levels throughout the game. It's technically doable as long as you change to an older 4:3 resolution like 1024x768 right before you exit a level, but it's a pain as you can imagine to constantly have to switch back and forth just in case there's an end level crash.

The only stable way of playing at a modern resolution like 1920x1080 is through fan made source ports like the Knightmare 1.42 patch mentioned above, the ioRTCW source port[github.com] which is vanilla as well, or RealRTCW mod, which is very faithful to the original game as well, though not 100% vanilla like the other two.

Hope that helps.