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Game Information

By: Joymax
Genre: Economic, Historical Fantasy MMORPG
Release Date: October 2005
Players: 1
Version: This report is based on current English/international SRO. As of today, client version is 1.091 and since it's the only client version I can run (otherwise it will just update itself), I didn't test with older (or newer...) client versions.

Silkroad Online is a free MMORPG game. It combines pretty graphics, lots of Engrish and reasonable fun. Your character becomes a Trader, Hunter or Thief and you do your job - leading a caravan, protecting a caravan or ambushing a caravan - in the setting of ancient Chinese Silk Road.

Or you just grind your way to higher levels and better items by slaughtering gazzilions of mythological creatures.... http://www.silkroadonline.net/

Widescreen Support

Method

The game doesn't have any native widescreen support.
I made it my goal to run this game widescreen and succeeded, in a rather strange and hackish way.
This is what you have to do:

1. get a hex editor. I googled and found a free XVI32 which is doing its job perfectly.
2. Use the hex editor to open game's config file, silkcfg.dat. You can find this file in game's program directory (typically c:\program files\silkroad\). You need to run this game at least once to have this file created.
3. Open silkcfg.dat with XVI32
4. At byte locations 8 and 9 there's a little-endian encoding of your horizontal resolution. At byte locations 12 and 13 there's a little-endian encoding of your vertical resolution. Screenshot:
   
   
   
5. Change the resolution to your native resolution. In my case, this meant changing 40 06 to 80 07 (780 hex = 1920 dec). Use windows calculator in advanced mode to quickly convert numbers.
6. Save the file.

If you broke the file or otherwise you're in doubt, start Silkroad's welcome screen, choose "option" and pick a resolution again. The config file will be re-created. There's no risk. Don't forget to reduce shadow quality from the game later on, or it will be very slow.

The outcome is, game runs at your native resolution.

I was unable to run the game at anything but 1920x1200. When given other numbers (1680x1050, 1920x1080, 0x0) the result was quite random and often resulted in 1920x1200, which actually made me write incorrect things in my Solutions thread.

To be precise, this is because silkcfg.dat is not a config file. Config file is setting\SROptionSet.dat. When you modify silkcfg.dat, game notices the change and then re-creates SROptionSet. If you do something wrong, SROptionSet will not be modified. Also, if you make a backup of silkcfg.dat and copy it back later, it will be considered "old" and ignored. Backup SROptionSet.dat instead.

Screen change

Hor +

1600x1200

1920x1200

Surround Gaming support

None known

Known Issues

No idea, under this trick it ONLY runs at 1920x1200 (native res) for the tester. Very likely if you have another native resolution, this other resolution will be used if you enter it correctly.

Condensed detailed report

WSGF links

Detailed Report - http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9303

External links

http://www.silkroadonline.net