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Posted July 20, 2013
Hello!

I am considering buying gog version of Settlers IV, but I can't find any unformation concerning screen resolution. Can some one please give me som info about highest resolution and is there any option for window mode?

Thanks and enjoy,
Fleshcrawl
Posted July 20, 2013
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Fleshcrawl: Hello!

I am considering buying gog version of Settlers IV, but I can't find any unformation concerning screen resolution. Can some one please give me som info about highest resolution and is there any option for window mode?

Thanks and enjoy,
Fleshcrawl
I have it on disc and I run it at 1024 x 768 just fine. I think you can go higher but to be honest the people become too small at that point so I forgo a little bit of sharpness for the sake of being able to tell who is who. :D
Posted July 20, 2013
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Fleshcrawl: Hello!

I am considering buying gog version of Settlers IV, but I can't find any unformation concerning screen resolution. Can some one please give me som info about highest resolution and is there any option for window mode?

Thanks and enjoy,
Fleshcrawl
Hi,

I'm in the process of finding the answers to those questions as well even though I already bought the game
These are some of the things i've learned so far:

The game has three available resolutions 800x600 1024x768 and 1280x1024 I've had no luck setting it to anything else (such as1280x800 which is the native resolution of my laptop) thus so far widescreen seems to be unavailable.
Fiddling around wtih the config file also didn't help (..\The Settlers IV GOLD\Config\GameSettings.cfg)

A few notes about the config file
- Playing around with the 'Screenmode' setting (0|1|2|3|4) might unlock the game's third resolution option if its not available for some reason.

- Setting 'Fullscreen' to 0 doesn't seem to have any effect
- Changing 'WindowHeight' and 'WindowWidth' doesn't seem to have any effect
- You need to set the config file to read only, otherwise the game will keep overwriting it on startup

Intro videos cannot be disabled, however you can delete the video files (..\The Settlers IV GOLD\Video\*.bik), but then the game will still flash through each of the missing files, almost as annoying as having to skip through them manually.

That is all, if anyone knows how to change to widescreen, please share.
Post edited July 20, 2013 by btregele
Posted July 20, 2013
Widescreen option is defenitly something the game really really needs indeed
Posted July 20, 2013
some people can't change the three possible resolutions ingame, but you can open pathtoyoursettlers4/config/gamesettings.cfg and change the "Screenmode" to your desired resolution:

Screenmode 1 = 800x600
Screenmode 2 = 1024x768
Screenmode 3 = 1280x1024

I don't really know if its necessary to change WindowHeight and WindowWidth too, i guess you will notice if nothing changes.

for widescreen resolutions, use this
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nw1vk4pj3iuaw80/SettlersIV_Widescreen.RAR?dl=0

i found it a while ago, i take no responsibilty for it as i did not create it, i only added an english translation for non-german users. use it at your own risk.

edit: link fixed
Post edited May 30, 2017 by Oedi
Posted July 20, 2013
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Fleshcrawl: Hello!

I am considering buying gog version of Settlers IV, but I can't find any unformation concerning screen resolution. Can some one please give me som info about highest resolution and is there any option for window mode?

Thanks and enjoy,
Fleshcrawl
I've played it at 1920 x 1200.

I think you need to hack a file to set it that way, if I run across the info again I'll post it.

EDIT:

Here's a link on what you need to do:

http://www.wsgf.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17572

You need to Hex Editor a couple settings in the GfxEngine.dll file - be sure to back up the original in case you mess up.

In case it disappears again:

Open your gfxengine.dll file (located in the Settlers IVExe directory) with the editor and search for the following string:

00 04 and 00 03 represent the resolution 1024x768. Change it to whatever resolution you need.

1024x600 - Replace 00 04 with 00 04 and replace 00 03 with 58 02
1280x720 - Replace 00 04 with 00 05 and replace 00 03 with D0 02
1280x800 - Replace 00 04 with 00 05 and replace 00 03 with 20 03
1366x768 - Replace 00 04 with 56 05 and replace 00 03 with 00 03
1440x900 - Replace 00 04 with A0 05 and replace 00 03 with 84 03
1680x1050 - Replace 00 04 with 90 06 and replace 00 03 with 1A 04
1920x1080 - Replace 00 04 with 80 07 and replace 00 03 with 38 04
1920x1200 - Replace 00 04 with 80 07 and replace 00 03 with B0 04

Save the file and change your in-game resolution to 1024x768.

I've tested it in 1280x720 and 1280x768 and it seemed to work fine. It's pixel based, so the higher the resolution, the more game area is rendered.

Unfortunately the HUD also seems to be pixel based, so the smaller the vertical resolution, the less of the HUD you'll see. The HUD is designed around 1024x768, with 800x600 having one section cut off, and 1280x1024 having an empty section tacked on. So as long as your vertical resolution is 768 or higher, you should see it all. If your vertical resolution is higher than 1024, though, it may do something funky with it, so let me know. If it's between 600 and 768 (like 1280x720 for example) it cuts off part of the bottom section.

1024x768 (4:3)

1280x768 (5:3)
Also, in the link you can see some pics of some new screen area, there is actually a new "feature" enabled by this if you look at the lower left - there is a target tracking window that's not normally there.


Request for 3840x2160 (4k) came in, it should be this following the procedure above :

3840x2160 - Replace 00 04 with 00 0F and replace 00 03 with 70 08
Post edited October 17, 2016 by wanderer_27
Posted July 20, 2013
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Oedi: some people cant change the three possible resolutions ingame, but you can go in the settlers IV folder /config
and change the "Screenmode" to the desired resolution. iirc that are:

800x600 = 1
1024x768 = 2
1280x1024 = 3

for widescreen resolutions, use this https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44316563/SettlersIV_Widescreen.RAR

i found it a while ago, i take no responsibilty for it as i did not create it, i only added an english translation for non-german users. use it at your own risk.
Thanks Oedi,

These DLLs are a huge help!

I figured out that the game has three UI sizes one for each of the built in resolutions :
(800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024)
As we go from lower to higer, each step gives you some additional UI elements

Since the widescreen patch overrides 1024 x 768, you'll miss out on the UI elements meant for 1280 x 1024
(No clipping will occur, the elements will just simply not be there)

This also means that if you use the 1280 x 700 patch or lower, the UI will be clipped off vertically
The 1280 x 800 patch does not work and crashes the game or displays a black screen (at least for me)
1366 x 768 and up should be completely fine

If you are stuck with an 1280 x 800 display like me, I made a version of the patch for 1280 x 768 which is almost perfect, you may download it here
Posted November 07, 2013
SOLVED!

All the hex stuff didn't work in my case, but there is a much easier solution available:

1. In the 'Config' folder find 'GameSettings.cfg'
2. Open it and make the following changes:
Screenmode = 4
WindowHeight = 1080
WindowWidth = 1920
(or whatever your desired resolution is)
Filtering = 1
LandscapeHardware = 1
ObjectHardware = 1
3. Save the file
4. IMPORTANT: Make the file read-only (right-click>properties)
This prevents the game from overwriting the file with the default values every time the game starts.
5. Done!
Post edited November 15, 2013 by Horhew
Posted November 13, 2013
So... Could this"4"screenmode be a custom resolution? Because there's literally no mention about it in the game itself(but I've readen about it a couple of times)...
Can someone confirm this(my games are patched with the file before, so it's already set to 1920x1080 for me...)?
Posted November 14, 2013
The steps by Horhew did not work for me, the game runs in 800x600 instead...
I did make the file readonly and all.

Is there any other settings you need to change? Software / Hardware mode etc?
Posted November 15, 2013
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Harteex: The steps by Horhew did not work for me, the game runs in 800x600 instead...
I did make the file readonly and all.

Is there any other settings you need to change? Software / Hardware mode etc?
Hmm... I tried on 3 different systems and it worked each time, I've no idea what the problem might be on your machine.

In-game, if you look in the graphics options menu, the 800x600 resolution is indeed selected, but the actual resolution is 1920x1080 (or at least it should be). All stuff should be set to 'Hardware' with filtering enabled to get the best details, of course.

Here is my GameSettings.cfg complete contents, you can check it against yours (I also included filtering and enabling hardware, so you won't have to change them each time you start the game):

//
// Automatically generated file. Do not edit!
//

[GAMESETTINGS]
{
AILevel = 0
BorderScroll = 0
ChatMessageFilter = 1
ExtendedTooltip = 1
Filtering = 1
Fullscreen = 1
LandscapeHardware = 1
MP3UserFolder = 0
MsgHistory = 100
MsgLevelMask = -1
MusicEnabled = 1
MusicVolume = 100
ObjectHardware = 1
PlayerName = "Horhew"
PopupAllMsgs = 0
Screenmode = 4
ScrollStepValue = 10
SoundFXEnabled = 1
SoundFXVolume = 100
TextureQuality = 1
Tutorial = 0
VoiceChatEnabled = 1
VoiceChatMicro = 100
VoiceChatVolume = 100
WebHelpMode = 0
WindowHeight = 1080
WindowWidth = 1920
}
Post edited November 15, 2013 by Horhew
Posted November 15, 2013
I copied your settings and used them directly, and it still didn't work :(
It does pick up the name Horhew from the config file, so at least it does read it, but neither the resolution nor the hardware graphics settings are used, the game starts in 800x600 and software anyway.

If I change the software modes to hardware in game, the resolution just stays at 800x600.

I also tried setting back the language to english, but that made no difference.


Anyway, I tried the hex-editing hack, and that works fine for me :)
Post edited November 15, 2013 by Harteex
Posted November 16, 2013
Now that I think of it... What graphics cards are you using?

Because I remember that the games behaves differently to nVidia and AMD graphics cards...
I could confirm this once I changed my desktop's GC to a GTX 660, as the game began to not only be somewhat unstable, but also behave differently to the custom resolutions I wrote in the config file.

For my laptop(HD 6770M) I had to try the"patch"that Oedi posted, because it would simply not recognize any custom resolution written manually.
Posted November 16, 2013
I've got an AMD Radeon HD 6800 series card
Posted November 16, 2013
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Harteex: I've got an AMD Radeon HD 6800 series card
nVidia (570gtx) here...could be an explanation on why it works for me and not for you, but can't tell for sure.
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