Brothers In Arms: Road to Hill 30

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1 Game Information
2 Widescreen Support
3 Surround Gaming support
- 3.1 Method
4 Known Issues
5 Condensed detailed report
6 WSGF links
7 External links

Game Information

By: Gearbox Software, Ubisoft
Genre: Historical, FPS, Tactical
Release Date: March 15, 2005
Players: 1
Version: Demo

Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 is a WWII themed FPS/Strategy game hybrid from Gearbox Software and Ubisoft. You are assigned fire teams, assault teams, and/or tanks to command, and must utilize them effectively in order to accomplish your tasks.

Widescreen Support

Method

WARNING My preferred method requires that you perform these steps immediately after installing the game, but before launching it even once. The standard Unreal Engine game method works, but this game has a nasty habit of resetting your FOV to 63 seemingly randomly. My method prevents this. If you have already installed and played the game, uninstall it, making sure you choose to delete your saved games and profiles. You may want to manually back up your saved games first. But if you do, do NOT back up any of the *.ini files that are in the same directory as your saved game.

Now for the method:

Install the game, and do NOT click "play." Go to <gameDir>\system, and edit DefUser.ini, preferably using textpad. Find these lines:

DesiredFOV=63.000000
DefaultFOV=63.000000

Change the "63" in each line to your desired FOV. I recommend 75 for 16:10 displays and 80 for 16:9 displays. Save it. Now launch the game, create a profile, and set your resolution to a widescreen one from the menu.

Screen change

Hor+

1024x768, FOV = 63

1280x800, FOV = 75

Additional Details

The game keeps profile specific user.ini files that are written over the user.ini file in the game directory when a profile is loaded. The user.ini file in the game directory doesn't actually get "reset", it's just copying in the values from the profile specific user.ini which the above method does not change (direclty). The above method works because you're setting the default before you create any profiles, so all new profiles you create will have that FOV. This is a roundabouts way of doing things though, you can just edit the profile specific user.ini directly. The profile specific user.inis are kept in the following directory: C:\Documents and Settings\[WindowsUserName]\Application Data\Gearbox Software\Brothers In Arms\[ProfileName] Where [WindowsUserName] and [ProfileName] name are replaced as appropriate. You just need to change the same two FOV values there.

Surround Gaming support

Method

Surround is supported in the Matrox SGU

Known Issues

The FOV only affects first person mode. The tactical mode is vert -.

Although the FOV change does affect the environment view, it does not affect the player's in-view gun/hand, so it's not perfectly hor+.

Condensed detailed report

MGL Classification	Hor +
Widescreen method	.ini
Resolution support	Full
Singleplayer anomalies	Major
Multiplayer support	(Uncertain)
Aspect ratio support	Full
HUD stretch	Stretch
Cut-scenes	Rendered cut-scenes
Rendered cut-scene correction	Vert -
Calculated grade	C+