Topic says it all. I am curious as to whether this game supports widescreen resolutions or can be run in windowed mode. My moitor doesn't display fullscreen 4:3 very well and I haven't been able to find a way to make it so that it doesn't crop the top and bottom off the screen.

Its not my graphics card that does the scaling... Its my monitor... I currently use an HD TV as my monitor and it doesn't support scaling ect. And when it gets a 4:3 image, the monitor itself crops the top and bottom off. As far as the PC knows, the full image is on the screen. And was just wondering if that was in the original game or not.

And you have no settings for ratio? What brand is it?

That's very strange. Samsung is supposed have good enough ration control. Sorry you can't control it.

I can't control it from my PC and none of the options on the TV itself seem to help. If this game works using DXwnd or D3Dwindower to window it, that would be great.

Or if it will run through WINE in Linux...

That surprises me, my Samsung has it both under the menu and on the remote as well.

I play this on my wide screen gaming PC, and honestly, I was surprised by how unstretched the game looked, it looked very natural.

Agreed...on my 23 inch Asus All-in-one touch screen, it looks unstretched even when I set the in-game resolution to 1028x768. Colors are brilliant. My graphics are Radeon HD 6470M. Seems many of the problems are related to the NVidia card.

Saddly both DXwnd and D3Dwindower not work here :(

While it's an old topic, I wanted to play this game again, and I had the same issue - as in I wanted to run this in windowed mode. Couldn't find the solution anywhere, but I managed to get it working myself with DXwnd, so if anyone stumbles across it, here is how I did it (I am on Windows 7 64 bit).

You have to set both game.exe (note - it's game.exe in the ~/Desperados/Game/ subfolder, and NOT the Desperados.exe) and DXwnd itself to run as an administrator, also set game.exe to run in compatibility with Windows XP. Make sure the window size in DXwnd is correct (so probably 1024x768). Side note: if you are messing with the settings in DXwnd, remember to kill the game.exe process in task manager if it is running, otherwise the game won't start.