Computer challenged person seeking help changing screen resolution

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I have a new monitor that runs at 1600x1200, and I want to play EUII at that resolution. After a lot of searching (using google - how come no search function on this forum??), I found a third party mod by a person named "unknown" that is supposed to change the resolution, but being computer illiterate, I can't figure out his directions in the readme file. If anyone out there is familiar with this resolution changing mod and is willing to take the time to spell it out so a dummy like me can understand it, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

[unmerged(19150)]

Anyone? Bueller? Did I mention that I would appreciate it?

 

[unmerged(52192)]

Anyone? Bueller? Did I mention that I would appreciate it?

lol! ferris! classic!

anyway, basically what you do is (at least how i did it)
1. copy your greschanger.exe into your EU2 folder, which is usually something like C:\Program Files\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis 2
2. go into C:\. go to Windows folder. go to system32 and find something called cmd.exe. copy it. go back to your eu2 folder and paste it.
3. now, double click the new cmd.exe . type : "greschanger.exe EU2.exe 1600 1200"
4. you should be done!

i've asked a few questions that haven't been answered, i felt i'd start the spirit round

 

[ForzaA]

ofcourse, asking the question in the right forum WOULD have helped... (that would be either tech support or general discussion- I'd guess the latter)

 

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ofcourse, asking the question in the right forum WOULD have helped... (that would be either tech support or general discussion- I'd guess the latter)

FYI, I did post it in the tech support forum first and was told by a moderator to post it here instead.

 

[unmerged(19150)]

lol! ferris! classic!

anyway, basically what you do is (at least how i did it)
1. copy your greschanger.exe into your EU2 folder, which is usually something like C:\Program Files\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis 2
2. go into C:\. go to Windows folder. go to system32 and find something called cmd.exe. copy it. go back to your eu2 folder and paste it.
3. now, double click the new cmd.exe . type : "greschanger.exe EU2.exe 1600 1200"
4. you should be done!

i've asked a few questions that haven't been answered, i felt i'd start the spirit round

Thank you for your help! I was successful in doing what you said, but when I started the game, it CTD'ed. I then looked in the readme again and the first step says the following:

1) You have to prepare load_user.bmp which size must be the same with the
resolution of your choice. You must put the bitmap file to
(\installation)\gfx directory.


Huh? What does this mean? I didn't find any load_user.bmp file in the GFX directory. I'm confused as to what I'm supposed to do here. Once again, thanks for your help and look forward to hearing back.

 

[jdrou]

Thank you for your help! I was successful in doing what you said, but when I started the game, it CTD'ed. I then looked in the readme again and the first step says the following:

1) You have to prepare load_user.bmp which size must be the same with the
resolution of your choice. You must put the bitmap file to
(\installation)\gfx directory.


Huh? What does this mean? I didn't find any load_user.bmp file in the GFX directory. I'm confused as to what I'm supposed to do here. Once again, thanks for your help and look forward to hearing back.

When it says "prepare load_user.bmp" it means you need to create it by resizing one of the existing load_xxxx.bmp files and saving it as load_user.bmp. You can do this with MS Paint if you have no other graphics program. I believe it's done using Attributes under the Image menu. You may also need to use Stretch/Skew; it's been a while since I did it.

And the forum this should be in is "Scenarios, Events and Modifications" not "User made scenarios and mods"; this subforum is intended to be only for people posting mods for others to download.

 

[david101]

I've just recently decided to play EU2 again after a few years of absence. Where can I get that resolution changer? I've tried going to 'unknown's' website, but I think the site doesn't exist anymore or has exceeded its bandwidth limit, whatever the Japanese Yahoo message is saying. Is there a mirror for that resolution changer?

 

[jdrou]

No mirrors that I know of (could check the HoI StonyRoad.de website; the same program works on EU2/HoI/CK/Victoria I believe). The program to look for is GResChanger.

If you want to try it manually:
Create gfx\load_user.bmp in the resolution you want by resizing one of the existing load_xxxx.bmp files.
Make a backup copy of eu2.exe
Open eu2.exe in a hex editor.
Change the following addresses to 0x90:
0x001B5CFF-0x001B5D12
0x001B5D21-0x001B5D34
0x001B5D37-0x001B5D4A
Convert your resolution to hex. e.g.
1600 = 0x00000640
1200 = 0x000004B0
Enter the horizontal res at address 0x0023A4DC with least-significant-byte-first. e.g. 40 06 00 00
Enter the vertical res at address 0x0023A4E0.
e.g. B0 04 00 00
Put the string 'load_user.bmp' at the following three locations:
0x0023B1B9, 0x0023B1CD, 0x0023B1E1
(overwriting load_1024.bmp, load_1280.bmp, and load_800.bmp)
These addresses are only for EU2 patch 1.09.

Another option might be Lord Ederon's "Pegasus Hexa Wizard": http://www.ederon.net/program.aspx?id=40004&grp=51

 

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Can someone pleas upload the greschanger program somewhere

 

[Havard]

FYI, I did post it in the tech support forum first and was told by a moderator to post it here instead.

"Scenarios, Events and Modifications", not "User made scenarios and mods". This forum (as explained in the two only stickie threads here, *This Forum is for uploading mods and scenarios only, not for discusions* and *** Upload Forum Rules - Read Before Posting ***) is only for uploading mods and scenarios. Nothing else.