[Help] Playing Star Trek Armada 2 in modern HD resolutions eg 1080p

[Blake00]

Hi guys,

I've been having no luck getting Armada 2 to run just in simple HD 1920x1080 resolution. When I used the Armada 1 1.3.0 fan patch on that game I got all the lovely newer resolution options yet the popular Armada 2 1.2.5 fan patch doesn't seem to do that and I'm stuck with old smaller resolutions up to 1280x960. I've been hunting through many forums for help on this issue and I can see a few posts here and there but no working solutions. So I'm guessing either no one cares OR the game just doesn't like my built in Intel graphics chip and nearly everyone else out there with better graphics cards are getting more options lol. Is that whats happening here? Are you guys all getting access to HD resolutions in Armada 2?

Seems so strange that the fan patch for Armada 1 upgrades the graphics options yet the Armada 2 one doesn't I saw an old thread on the Fleet Ops forums about them making a separate patch that allowed modern resolutions in original armada 2 but the thread went dead years ago.

I saw advice over on armada fleet command about editing the prf file to be 1920 1080 instead of 1280 960 but as soon as I started the game it reverts it back to default 800x600 so that doesn't work.

I have Armada Fleet Ops which is great for multiplayer and I've even tried the Armada 2 Classic project and Upgrade project mods for Fleet Ops that puts the A2 campaign in there however I've seen people posting about various bugs/glitches and I couldn't get the intro video working either. After playing Armada 1 campaign in HD I really want to play Armada 2's campaign in HD and would rather do it in the original game if I can!

 

[Lutz]

Thats an interessting question. Is there a solution for this problem? I wanted to stream stock Armada 2 with OBS but I never had luck with that either. I always supected the screen resolution is the main problem for OBS.

 

[Rifraf]

I did the Upgrade Project mod for FO and I would be interested and appreciative if you know of any bugs to send them my way. Also, I believe I removed the intro videos to save download size. Those files added a lot of extra size. I think they are the .bik files. You can take them from stock A2 or the Classic mod and put them back in if you wanted to.

 

[Blake00]

The FO A2 Classic mod allows the campaign but drops all the videos and I've seen posts over on other forums about bugs in certain missions that I'm not sure if they were fixed.

Your FO A2 Upgrade mod is super cool, has the gorgeous models and gets those videos back in and working however it uses all the what I guess can only be described as 'HARDCORE mode' lol stuff from the original upgrade A2 mod where the AIs are crazy aggressive and stuff in missions is changed (eg the bird of preys in the opening missions and 50 thousand borg ships coming down at me despite me selecting the easiest mode possible lol) and different from the original.

Video of what I mean:
youtube dot com/watch?v=0aI5UTwV-OU&t=2646s
(forum keeps converting it to a embeded video that loses my timestamp grr lol)

Or play this and jump to the 44:06 mark

All I wanna do is play vanilla unmodified Armada 2 campaign in HD but judging by all the threads and confused people I find in different forums it's sadly not possible.

It's so strange that at this point in time no one can play Armada 2's vanilla campaign in HD without something important missing or messed with. Yet we can all play Armada 1's vanilla campaign in HD no probs lol.

 

[Lutz]

I allways thought that A1 and A2 are working with the same engin. By that I mean you can find some thinks left from A1 in A2 for example ships and stations. Isn't there a config file you can edit somewhere in the game? That trick works with Elite Force so I was hoping it would work with A2 too.

 

[Blake00]

I allways thought that A1 and A2 are working with the same engin. By that I mean you can find some thinks left from A1 in A2 for example ships and stations. Isn't there a config file you can edit somewhere in the game? That trick works with Elite Force so I was hoping it would work with A2 too.

Yeah I think it's even the same fan patch team that did both the Armada 1 and Armada 2 update patches so its really weird that they added modern resolution support in A1 but not A2.

Yeah there's a prf file with A2's graphic settings you can edit in notepad however the moment you change the resolution in there it reverts back to 800x600 when you start the game. So that trick suggested on some forums doesn't work sadly.

 

[Lutz]

Hm, interes
ting. Did you tried a NO CD patch? With one my reselution is in real 4:3, without it is wierdly stretch. I allways hoped that the NO CD patch had something fixed...

 

[Blake00]

Stretching of old 90s 4:3 resolutions is not the problem (things like that can be adjusted in video card and screen settings). We just want 1920 x 1080 which is 16:9 and the game doesn't allow that resolution.

Can't select it, can't force it in config files, and no fan patch addresses it. It's just so weird that this problem exists. Why fix A1's resolutions but not A2's...

 

[Lutz]

My idea was that the NO CD patch would fix the problem, that resetts the config file too.