SOLVED: Can't run the game above 800x600. Upper left corner of the screen enlarged.

[Nettacki]

My game can't run this game above the noted resolution without resulting in the screen being super zoomed into one corner of the screen. Neither 1024x768, nor anything else. This applies with and without the unofficial patch, and for some reason applies to both this high end desktop (i7 3.4 GHz quad core w/ Geforce 660 ti and 8GB RAM running Win7 64 bit) and my laptop with far weaker yet still competent specs (i5 2.8 GHz dual core w/ Geforce 425m and 4 GB RAM running Win7 32 bit). I check the driver info in the system menu and apparently my graphics card is detected as a 3dfx card rather than Directx or Opengl or whatever. Is this normal? How can I resolve this problem? I've reinstalled the game countless times, tinkered with the configs, and nothing works.

I have NEVER ran into this problem in other Q3-engine powered games (Jedi Outcast/Jedi Academy, Quake Live, Xonotic, Warsow, etc.), so me running into this big issue in this game was a big surprise.

EDIT: I FIGURED IT OUT! I found this line named: seta r_glIgnoreWicked3D "0" in the wolfconfig.cfg file in Steam\steamapps\common\Return to Castle Wolfenstein\Main. I changed the 0 to 1 and now I can select any resolution that I please without hassle. I guess the reason why this happened is due to the game detecting my nGlide 3dfx wrapper from another old game that I was running or something.

Anyway, that's how I solved my problem, and if you have a problem similar to mine, maybe my proposed solution will help.

[>M@tEo$<]

Thanks for sharing :)

If some it fixes the issue for several people, it would be good to get it sticky (dunno if it's possible, there's no dedicated moderator here atm) or make a guide :)

[Blackbird]

Thanks dude. I had the same problem.

[Chemischer Kuckuck]

Thanks for the tip, same thing happened to me. Can't remember this from the non-steam version, but maybe I just never played above 800x600 with my crappy PC back then :D

[BigPalooka]

This needs to be stickied

[Gimpmaster]

Did not work for me. Still stuck in the low res corner, also with mouse arrow glued to far left corner. Also tried the unoffical patch 1.42, but no luck. Seems I bought a game that doesn't work.

[Nettacki]

Originally posted by Fekalvolmit:

Did not work for me. Still stuck in the low res corner, also with mouse arrow glued to far left corner. Also tried the unoffical patch 1.42, but no luck. Seems I bought a game that doesn't work.

Sorry to hear that. Does the driver info in the system menu still say 3dfx or some sort?

[durian]

Thank you so much, Nettacki.
I had the same problem.
Problem solved.
Now running full-screen in native resolution on hp G62 (Win7-x64 Home Premium, Core i3 M350, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470).

[SgtRedRock]

Nettacki, this works for both single AND muliplayer modes. Make the same change in the multiplayer config file,wolfconfig_mp.cfg, that is made in the single player config and you're golden. Thanks for sharing this with the community.

Now, to find multiplayer servers...

[Karakan]

thank you

[=M4CZUP=]

Thank you so much :)

[meatee]

Awesome, fixed my game instantly!
(Unofficial Patch 1.42c, Windows 8.1-x64, Core i7-2600, GTX 560-Ti)

[predator_eg]

It worked for me thanks!!!

[Gladiatorpikachu]

Did not fix the problem. Still cant launch with same erros...

[>M@tEo$<]

Originally posted by GladiatorPikachu:

Did not fix the problem. Still cant launch with same erros...

Which errors?

[Gladiatorpikachu]

Wolf 1.4-MP win-x86 Oct 28 2002
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
H:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Return to Castle Wolfenstein\main\mp_pakmaps6.pk3 (81 files)
H:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Return to Castle Wolfenstein\main\mp_pakmaps5.pk3 (35 files)
H:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Return to Castle Wolfenstein\main\mp_pakmaps4.pk3 (52 files)
H:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Return to Castle Wolfenstein\main\mp_pakmaps3.pk3 (83 files)
H:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Return to Castle Wolfenstein\main\mp_pakmaps2.pk3 (47 files)
H:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Return to Castle Wolfenstein\main\mp_pakmaps1.pk3 (34 files)
H:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Return to Castle Wolfenstein\main\mp_pakmaps0.pk3 (21 files)
H:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Return to Castle Wolfenstein\main\mp_pak5.pk3 (77 files)
H:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Return to Castle Wolfenstein\main\mp_pak4.pk3 (5 files)
H:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Return to Castle Wolfenstein\main\mp_pak3.pk3 (76 files)
H:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Return to Castle Wolfenstein\main\mp_pak2.pk3 (3 files)
H:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Return to Castle Wolfenstein\main\mp_pak1.pk3 (308 files)
H:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Return to Castle Wolfenstein\main\mp_pak0.pk3 (783 files)
H:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Return to Castle Wolfenstein\main\mp_bin.pk3 (4 files)
H:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Return to Castle Wolfenstein\main\pak0.pk3 (4775 files)
H:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Return to Castle Wolfenstein/main

----------------------
6384 files in pk3 files
execing default.cfg
couldn't exec language.cfg
execing wolfconfig_mp.cfg
execing autoexec.cfg
Hunk_Clear: reset the hunk ok
...detecting CPU, found AMD w/ 3DNow!
Bypassing CD checks
----- Client Initialization -----
----- Initializing Renderer ----
-------------------------------
Loaded 714 translation strings from scripts/translation.cfg
Loaded 97 translation strings from translations/rocket.cfg
Loaded 86 translation strings from translations/dam.cfg
Loaded 114 translation strings from translations/tram.cfg
Loaded 57 translation strings from translations/chateau.cfg
Loaded 54 translation strings from translations/keep.cfg
Loaded 73 translation strings from translations/icelab.cfg
Loaded 6 translation strings from translations/translation-1_4.cfg
----- Client Initialization Complete -----
----- R_Init -----
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...initializing QGL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'C:\Windows\system32\opengl32.dll' ): succeeded
...setting mode 9: 1600 1200 FS
...using colorsbits of 32
...calling CDS: failed, bad mode
...trying next higher resolution: failed, bad mode
...restoring display settings
...registered window class
...created window@3,22 (1606x1228)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 32, 24, 0 )
...67 PFDs found
...hardware acceleration found
...PIXELFORMAT 2 selected
...creating GL context: succeeded
...making context current: succeeded
...WARNING: fullscreen unavailable in this mode
...setting mode 9: 1600 1200 FS
...using colorsbits of 16
...calling CDS: failed, bad mode
...trying next higher resolution: failed, bad mode
...restoring display settings
...window already present, CreateWindowEx skipped
Initializing OpenGL driver
...WARNING: fullscreen unavailable in this mode
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL
...assuming '3dfxvgl' is a standalone driver
...initializing QGL
...WARNING: missing Glide installation, assuming no 3Dfx available
...shutting down QGL
----- CL_Shutdown -----
RE_Shutdown( 1 )
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GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem