Getting Custom Display Resolution For Command And Conquer Generals

Well, this topic is going to deviate a little bit from my work. Having quite a stressful week, some old school games would be fun. And this time I chose to start back playing C&C Generals.

Since I'm installing the data files within a VM, the resolution of that VM is 1916x968. Was not able to get the right resolution at first.

Okay, this is what I did. Hope it's going to be an useful reference though.

First, you need to set the resolution within the game back to 800x600 and exit.

Navigate to My Documents after that, look for a folder called "Command and Conquer Generals Data".

Locate the Options.ini file.

Open the file using notepad.

The output you'll see:

AntiAliasing = 3

CampaignDifficulty = 0

GameSpyIPAddress = 0.0.0.0

Gamma = 50

IPAddress = 0.0.0.0

IdealStaticGameLOD = High

LanguageFilter = false

MusicVolume = 55

Resolution = 800 600

SFX3DVolume = 79

SFXVolume = 71

ScrollFactor = 50

SendDelay = no

StaticGameLOD = High

VoiceVolume = 70

I changed that part, and it looks like below:

AntiAliasing = 3

CampaignDifficulty = 0

GameSpyIPAddress = 0.0.0.0

Gamma = 50

IPAddress = 0.0.0.0

IdealStaticGameLOD = High

LanguageFilter = false

MusicVolume = 55

Resolution = 1916 968

SFX3DVolume = 79

SFXVolume = 71

ScrollFactor = 50

SendDelay = no

StaticGameLOD = High

VoiceVolume = 70

And I got what I want:

Cheerio!