Recent Armada 2 Issue

[dvatreknerd314]

Hey guys! I'm not sure if this the right place to put this or not so if it's in the wrong place, I apologize for that.

Anyway, I recently had an issue come up with Armada 2 that I was hoping someone could help me with. The problem is the game is stretching the display horizontally to compensate for my widescreen monitor. It didn't have this issue until recently (I think installing SWTOR might have changed something), and I have no idea how to fix it. It sounds like this is a commonly encountered and probably easily fixed problem, but again, I'm not sure what to do. Do you guys have any ideas? Thanks!

 

[Majestic]

Have you got your resolution to max on both game and for windows?

 

[dvatreknerd314]

Yep, both are at maximum

 

[Dominus_Noctis]

Stock Armada 1 and 2 do not support widescreen and never have I'm afraid. Unless you are not talking about the UI, but the actual units etc being stretched... which in that case might require a reinstall...

 

[dvatreknerd314]

Thing is, it used to work just fine (it would have black bars on the sides of the screen and display everything correctly). Now, everything is stretched to the sides, and I'm not sure why

 

[Majestic]

Fleet Ops supports widescreen and there is a Stock A2 mod that you can use if you don't like FO.

 

[dvatreknerd314]

Could you point me in the direction of that mod please?

 

[Majestic]

Could you point me in the direction of that mod please?

Just google Star Trek Armada II Fleet Operations.

 

[dvatreknerd314]

Sorry, not fleet ops, but the one for stock A2

 

[Majestic]

It's called Stock A2 I think, It's made by Blade and is posted on the Fleet Ops forums last time I saw. Check out their modification section on the forums.

 

[Dominus_Noctis]

Hi mate, just run a search for "A2 Classic Mod" on Moddb

 

[dvatreknerd314]

I just tried the classic mod and the problem is it throws a fit since I have more than 2 gigs of memory. That's why I use 1.2.5 normally, but for some reason, it decided to stop working with the screen resolution. What all does the classic mod alter?

 

[Dominus_Noctis]

That sounds like you are using the executable that's in the Classic Mod folder. That's just the A2 executable, and will launch your stock A2 game. You'll have to launch Fleet Ops -> settings ->mod settings -> launch A2 Classic Mod/create shortcut.

1.2.5 does not support more than 2 gb of RAM as well, but does allow computers with more than 2gb RAM to run A2. Only Fleet Operations allows more than 2gb of RAM to be used during games.

 

[Majestic]

The classic mod is for Fleet Operations and allows a close to stock install to run on the FO mod and also allows you to use the advanced features of the FO engine and mod. Many members use the stock mod to put A2 made mods playable on FO.