Widescreen HUD

BF2142 was built for 4:3 screens. The v1.51 patch added widescreen support, but it mostly stretches the picture, so the HUD still looks off at 16:9. The Project Remaster team’s HUD fix resizes it properly.

Before

After

Before you start

• Your game folder is where BF2142.exe lives, usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\Battlefield 2142.
• In the steps, <MOD> means mods\bf2142 for vanilla, or your mod’s folder.

Steps

Tip

Using Project Remaster? It’s built in: tick Widescreen Fix and HUD-fix in the Remaster Launcher’s Settings tab.¹ To turn it off, untick both and click Clear Cache on the Help tab.

1. Download the patch from Downloads and extract it. You’ll get two files: Menu_server_hudfix.zip and Shaders_client_hudfix.zip.

2. Copy both files into <MOD>.

3. Back up ClientArchives.con (copy it as ClientArchives_o.con), then open the original with a text editor and add this line at the very top:²

   fileManager.mountArchive Shaders_client_hudfix.zip Shaders

4. Back up ServerArchives.con the same way, then add this line at the very top:

   fileManager.mountArchive Menu_server_hudfix.zip Menu

   Can’t save your changes? Copy the file to your desktop, edit it there, then copy it back.

5. Turn on widescreen when you launch the game:

   • BF2142 Hub: tick TURN ON WIDESCREEN.
   • Remaster Launcher: enable Widescreen Fix in Settings.
   • Desktop shortcut: add +widescreen 1 to the Target field (how).

Downloads

v2

MFBF2142 Widescreen Hudfix v2 (15 KB)Download from MediaFire

Source: GetBF2142

GBF2142 Widescreen Hudfix v2 (15 KB)Download from Google Drive

Source: GetBF2142

What’s new

• Widescreen support for the Commander screen
• Fixed elements that were cut off by the shrunken border

v1

GBF2142 Widescreen Hudfix v1 (9 KB)Download from Google Drive

Source: GetBF2142

Good to know

• Undo the changes before joining Reclamation or other online servers, unless the server uses this fix too.
• Hosting with this fix? Players who join need it too.
• To uninstall, restore your backups and clear the cache.

Credits

• The Project Remaster team for making this fix available @ BF2142 Remastered
• ompadu for figuring out how to install it on vanilla BF2142 @ BF2142 Remastered

Footnotes

1. Widescreen Fix adds the widescreen flag when launching, while HUD-fix makes the HUD display correctly at 16:9. ↩

2. It must come before the original mountArchive line, so the fixed files load first and take priority. ↩