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Game Information

By: Gathering of Developers, Croteam
Genre: Sci-Fi First-Person Shooter
Release Date: March 23, 2001
Players: 1-16
Version: Retail

Serious Sam is an FPS from Croteam and Gathering of Developers. You play as Sam "Serious" Stone, and do battle with thousands of alien nasties throughout various historical set-pieces, using an array of diverse and enormous weapons.

Widescreen Support

Method

Go to <gameDir>\scripts. Open PersistentSymbols.ini. Find these lines:

persistent extern INDEX sam_iScreenSizeI=(INDEX)xxxx;
persistent extern INDEX sam_iScreenSizeJ=(INDEX)xxxx;

Change them to set your resolution (the first one is your horizontal value, the second is your vertical value).

Now find this line:

persistent extern user FLOAT plr_fFOV=(FLOAT)xxx;

Increase the FOV value according to your preference. The default is 90. 100 is recommended for 16:10 displays, and 105 is recommended for 16:9 displays.

Screen change

This game is Hor+, dependant on your plr_fFOV setting.

1024x768, plr_fFOV=90

1280x800, plr_fFOV=100

Surround Gaming support

Unknown, but most widescreen hacks work for surround.

Method

Go to <gameDir>\scripts. Open PersistentSymbols.ini. Find these lines:

persistent extern INDEX sam_iScreenSizeI=(INDEX)xxxx;
persistent extern INDEX sam_iScreenSizeJ=(INDEX)xxxx;

Change them to set your resolution (the first one is your horizontal value, the second is your vertical value).

Now find this line:

persistent extern user FLOAT plr_fFOV=(FLOAT)xxx;

Increase the FOV value according to your preference. The default is 90.

Known Issues

Condensed detailed report

WSGF links

Detailed widescreen report by The_cranky_hermit:
http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5260

Widescreen solution by Alkaline:
http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=122

External links

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