Anyway to play X2 in widescreen without stretching?

[pixel]

I remember I tried this a while ago and the game stretched so gates were oval etc.

Is there a way around this or do I just need to play 4:3, assuming I can with a widescreen monitor I just need to pick the right res?

Thanks

[pixel]

just to add, got it working in windowed mode 4:3 just fine. Looks great to be honest for a 12 (?) year old game. Remembered how to invert the mouse. Now just got to get used to no thrusters (x-treme start )

But if anyone knows how to get this game in full widescreen mode with no stretching, pray tell

[Alan Phipps]

If you want to browse some past threads on this topic then just put 'widescreen resolution X2' into this Egosoft Forums Google Search.

[pixel]

Thanks Alan, already did that. The first result is x2 and useless, the rest are x3.

Which is why I posted here? Sorry if you can't help.

[RAVEN.myst]

I recently re-visited X2, and faced the same issue - the widescreen resolutions offered by the game aren't true widescreen, but rather stretched 4:3 or 5:4 resolutions (as you have discovered.) I also searched high and low for a way to fix this, but apparently the engine is utterly incapable of it, so I ended up lumping it and playing in a 5:4 or 4:3 res (even though it didn't match the vertical res of my LCD in either axis.) The game still looked fine - at least circular things were circles, and not ellipses There's a site I often checked for widescreen res mods/patches to old games, but I forget its name - you may want to check there (I can't remember whether I bothered to in this case - I suspect you won't have any joy there either... sorry!)

EDIT: I think the site I mentioned above is http://www.wsgf.org/