Overview
A small guide to fix the stretched image when playing Beyond Good and Evil in a widescreen resolution.
Widescreen fix
All the information used in this guide comes from the PC Gaming Wiki
http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Beyond_Good_%26_Evil#Widescreen_resolution
I’m just trying to make it easier for people to find this.
A big “Thank you” to the contributors over there.
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Because the game only runs at a 4:3 aspect ratio everything will be stretched when playing on modern 16:9 resolutions, resulting in fat and odd looking characters and scenery.
To circumvent this you will have to do the following:
- 1. Start off by downloading the D3D Injector (It’s a .rar file) from pcgamingwiki:
[link] - 2. Once the download is finished, extract all the file’s contents into the main Beyond Good and Evil folder, which is the same folder where your BGE.exe is located (path should be something like: C:Program filesSteamSteamAppscommonBeyond Good and Evil).
This will result in a new “Redist” folder and a bunch of files being integrated into the Main folder. - 3. Open the newly extracted d3d9.ini with notepad, put your desired resolution in and save the file.
- 4. Open the SettingsApplication.exe in the same folder and select the same resolution you put into the d3d9.ini!
- 5. Click on the “Save” button and run the game through Steam. It should now look something like this:
You’ll notice some very small black borders left and right, which can’t be removed, but the huge black bars on top and bottom of the screen are finally gone same as the stretched image.
- 6. Should you experience problems launching the game with the fix, try running the CheckApplication.exe in Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode, which hopefully will take care of any issues you have.
Enjoy the game!