All thanks here go to Bowenac.  We have been waiting for the Black Ops fix for the stretched screen resolutions for Surround:
 
http://www.widescreenfixer.org/
 
The fix for Black Ops was posted last night with an update today on how it detects Steam.  Good gaming my friends...now if they can only fix the stuttering bugs!
 
 
 
 
 

This works fantastic!!! Just make sure you follow the instructions to the letter...
 
The gaming experience is amazing with this... I plan to PayPal this fella some $$...

Is it bannable in MP?

Afterburner


This works fantastic!!! Just make sure you follow the instructions to the letter...

The gaming experience is amazing with this... I plan to PayPal this fella some $$...

 
Just got it working here too, it's awesome!  I will also send this guy some money.  Maybe Treyarch should also.
 
 

Yup good stuff, ATM I would use at your own risk...

Bowenac


Yup good stuff, ATM I would use at your own risk...

 
Think it might get flagged by VAC?
 
 

Johnny_Utah

Bowenac


Yup good stuff, ATM I would use at your own risk...

Think it might get flagged by VAC?

 
Not sure I am just going to give it some time see how it works for others hehe... not worth getting my game banned so I am playing on single screen for a little while first.

Well seems to be ok, have not heard of anyone getting banned yet... dopefish made a comment on steam about how he has used it for hours and hours with previous COD titles as well as many other people and does not know of anyone that had got banned before. I would say it seems pretty safe to use.

what settings are you guys using? I can get the fixer to work, but I cannot click on the play screen ....eeerrrrr

cableguy619


what settings are you guys using? I can get the fixer to work, but I cannot click on the play screen ....eeerrrrr

 
If you mean can't get your mouse to click, then just hover over it and hit enter.

The subject of video tweaks like this and banning comes up a lot. Even a drag out knock out here when BFBC2 came out. When the gaming company was asked.. They said it is not considered a hack, anymore than a person using 1680x1080 RES instead of 1920x1200 res. Simple as that.
 
This does not mean if a person messes with other things or it becomes corrupt that this could not happen. Or for that matter if folks forget (Like I did last year) to tell Precision or Afterburner to use "Stealth"...

Afterburner


The subject of video tweaks like this and banning comes up a lot. Even a drag out knock out here when BFBC2 came out. When the gaming company was asked.. They said it is not considered a hack, anymore than a person using 1680x1080 RES instead of 1920x1200 res. Simple as that.

This does not mean if a person messes with other things or it becomes corrupt that this could not happen. Or for that matter if folks forget (Like I did last year) to tell Precision or Afterburner to use "Stealth"...

 
I don't think that is what raises the question or concern, it is how widescreenfixer is detected if it ever is... it is not just setting your res and playing. I mean it has to have something to do with the game files in order to over ride the stretched res.
 
Now I get your point about it not being a hack, and of course if they would just enable this by default then sure no different then 1680X1050 vs 2560X1600 etc... but it is the process of getting it to work correctly that raises the question if it is considered a hack that could result in a false ban.
 
But again from what I have read from dopefish on steam forum, no one as of yet has been banned from using widescreenfixer on any game that he knows of.
 
I personally think Steam should start selling this app for dopefish on steam haha, they would get a cut, and he would make some money haha. Just boggles my mind how a whole dev team "s" can't get surround/eyefinity right in games but it takes dopefish only a couple days to get a game working right.

I do know that a few thousand players got banned by VAC for widescreen fixer in MW2.
 
Black Ops uses VAC just as MW2 did so, I would be very wary running this program.
 
Just saying.

dwoodward


I do know that a few thousand players got banned by VAC for widescreen fixer in MW2.

Black Ops uses VAC just as MW2 did so, I would be very wary running this program.

Just saying.

 
And your full of crap and have no proof, the author of the program even stated he knows no one that has ever got banned, says he gets emails every day saying how much they enjoy his program, and has never received anything from anyone saying they have been banned.
 
I think your one of those people who dislikes triple screen for some reason so are trying to get people worried. I had heard about bans, did some research and came to the conclusion it was all rumors and false.
 
And just from what dopefish said, I can tell you have no idea how the program works if you think it is detected by VAC. And this is not a hack.

Here is what dopefish said on steam to someone else telling people they will get banned hehe... And the link, If you read through the whole thread the person he is explaining this to thinks it is cheating so he is just spreading rumors basically...
 
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=18502523
 
"I am the author of Widescreen Fixer.

I would like to know where you are getting this information and why you have so much hostility towards the application.

Myself and many, many others have all logged countless hours of playing CoD4, CoD:WaW, CoD:MW2, and soon CoD:BO and have yet to receive any kick or ban. I have hundreds of emails of people telling me it works great and not one email of someone saying they were banned because of it.

You said it directly writes to the .exe file. This is not true. It overwrites several offsets in memory. The offsets it edits are offsets that naturally get modified by the game itself based on your settings.

To top this off, you have no first-hand experience using this application. You "claim" that you have friends banned because of it. You have no actual proof of it triggering a VAC ban. It sounds more like you have some vendetta against the application than any valid reason.

While I will not guarantee anyone risk-free usage of Widescreen Fixer, myself and countless others have been using it for quite a long time and have yet to receive any ban.

I am interested in knowing why you feel the way you do about the application and, if you happen to have a NVIDIA Surround/AMD Eyefinity setup, that you at least check it out yourself. It really provides a whole new, enjoyable experience."

dwoodward


I do know that a few thousand players got banned by VAC for widescreen fixer in MW2.

Black Ops uses VAC just as MW2 did so, I would be very wary running this program.

Just saying.

You know, or are you regurgitating information a troll posted as fact? All I can say is NTHUSIM does a heck of a lot more modification to screen rendering than something like this does and it has zero instances of VAC problems either.

Yeah this is NOT going to get you banned by VAC.

I have played all of the COD games using it and no ban.. but someday it could happen..

dwoodward


I do know that a few thousand players got banned by VAC for widescreen fixer in MW2.

Black Ops uses VAC just as MW2 did so, I would be very wary running this program.

Just saying.

 
Please show evidence of this or stop posting.  This is just the type of nonsense that creates problems.  This guy is trying to help those of us using Eyefinity or Surround since the morons at Treyarch cannot seem to implement this for us natively.

Hmmm no more comments from dwoodward thats odd.

Bowenac


Hmmm no more comments from dwoodward thats odd.

 
Perhaps you noticed I was 24 hour banned from the forums.
 
As far as my comment. I don't need to comment to you. I'll see you when your banned.
 
Buh bye!

dwoodward

Bowenac


Hmmm no more comments from dwoodward thats odd.

Perhaps you noticed I was 24 hour banned from the forums.

As far as my comment. I don't need to comment to you. I'll see you when your banned.

Buh bye!

 
Yea I did notice that, but noticed you were still posting as well, I don't think I will be getting banned, have not done anything wrong so... thanks for assuming though. And thanks for posting your thoughts on surround, and eyefinity.

Bowenac

dwoodward

Bowenac


Hmmm no more comments from dwoodward thats odd.

Perhaps you noticed I was 24 hour banned from the forums.

As far as my comment. I don't need to comment to you. I'll see you when your banned.

Buh bye!

Yea I did notice that, but noticed you were still posting as well, I don't think I will be getting banned, have not done anything wrong so... thanks for assuming though. And thanks for posting your thoughts on surround, and eyefinity.

 
And thanks for assuming I have something against surround and eyefinity. I have nothing against the two setups at all. It's treyarch's fault it doesn't work, not the user. That said, I was simply posting because I remember when the VAC forums lit up about 4-5 months ago with a ton of posts about Widescreen Fixer causing a MW2 ban. Flame me all you want, I have nothing against multi screen setups, I am just looking out for the average gamer. VAC is a nasty system, and according to Valve, has no false positives.

VAC is trash and won't detect anything running outside the game folder.  I can almost guarantee those that lit up the Steam forums were using something other than the Widescreen fixer

Here is a thread on [H] forums.  I don't think anyone has any info since the VAC will not respond to the authors of the fixer.  Interesting read though:
 
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1560055
 
Also, I don't bear ANYONE any ill-will.  I just highly object to posting information that cannot be substantiated.  Hey, if you have proof, please show us!
 
 

Ok Folks... I got some responses to my inquiry on this conversation. The official response was...

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This question has come to our attention from many angles. Our standard response at this time is as it was when we first dealt with in in 2007. Regarding this particular program; At this time, we are not considering them to be malicious and they are not breaking anything that would trigger a violation, so go ahead and allow it for the time being. If this changes, we'll make the appropriate announcements.

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And after some digging I found those exact same words here... Interesting...
 
The other response I got was a simple.
 

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No this does not make changes to the actual games' software. This only deals with the end-users viewing options. Similar to those choosing to play a game with no AA or 4x AA.
 

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Take it for what it is worth. So far not an issue... YMMV...
 

Ok.......I will admit Imma noob when it comes to multi monitor gaming. First off.........How in the hel* do you get this widescreen fixer to work? Do you have to have 3d surround to do it? I can get the game to change resolution in game and it makes it skinnier looking but it wont span to the other monitor. Please inform me as to what Im doing wrong......lol. Ive tried COd2, MW2, and black ops and all games change resolution but wont span to other monitors.

You setup your surround like normal in Nvidia Control Panel...
 
Then Launch widescreenfixer... select the right mode SP or MP.
 
Then launch game, select correct res from settings. Then you hit * to activate WSF.