Phenomenal.

Thank you so much for this!

One of my favourite games now looks even better :D

Okay now I have to ask, is there anyway to get this working with Dark Conspiracy?

NEVERMIND, I altered the bat file.

Any help for doing it at 1920x1200?

EDIT: Thanks void!!!

Yes :)

I have made a simple program which can make Ground Control run at any resolution. If you can, please also upload it to some more reliable sources so it doesn't get lost.

http://www.wsgf.org/f/u/contrib/dr/25411/hacks/resolution_changer.zip
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByuikmI4uhzXeTlGLUJxa0JGams/edit?usp=sharing
http://www.moddb.com/downloads/ground-control-1-resolution-changer

Much more detailed information can be found at
http://www.wsgf.org/dr/ground-control/en

How do you do that? Don't you just hate it when people post that they found a solution without explaining how? Geeze Louise, what a tease.

Good Question it was like a year ago, but the bat file is the file used to run the game, if i remember. I think i edited it in Notepad so it would load the expansion instead.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

Well, another year later...
I made an improved resolution changer which has a few advantages:
* You don't get the resolution selection dialog on every launch.
* No launcher bat file is necessary; that means any desktop/start menu shortcuts will work as expected plus you can launch the game from Galaxy, if that's your thing.

Download:
bitbucket.org/fk/gc-resolution-changer/downloads/resolution-changer-2.zip

Source:
bitbucket.org/fk/gc-resolution-changer

See the included readme for installation info etc., but in short:
* revert to a vanilla no-cd gc.exe
* delete data/gcvideo.dat
* run resolution-changer-2.exe, choose your resolution
* run the game, select 800x600, exit and restart the game

Hi all

I recently got a new computer and cannot get GC to work (could play it fine on older machine). I followed the steps as detailed in fk's post and the read me to no avail.

Here are is what I tried
Installed GC (with expansion) using GOG installer v2.0.0.6
Copied GC resolution-changer-2 into installation directory
Ran the file (as administrator), selected 1600x900 resolution
Launched the game (as administrator), screen goes dark, then I get a CTD with the following error message


Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: gc.exe
Application Version: 1.0.1.1
Application Timestamp: 3a19640b
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.18798
Fault Module Timestamp: 5507b3e0
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00033236
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: c518
Additional Information 2: c5186d6c269c8d99ee26cbeb36848163
Additional Information 3: 3241
Additional Information 4: 324146a2f5fa1e260de58c5b0615abc9


I attempted to troubleshoot by running the gc.exe in compatability mode for WinXp/Win98 to no avail. Tried changing to lower and higher resolutions (using the resolution-changer-2) nada. Tried reinstalling a couple of times and following the steps outlined above, and once just running the game with no modifications, all to no avail. The error message is always the same.

Any suggestions?

Computer specs
- OS: Win7 x64
- CPU: AMD A10-7700K APU (with Radeon R7 graphics)
- RAM: 8GB
- Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 2343NW, running at 2048x1152

And for our two-yearly update, we have a new version that also supports the French and German GOG versions of the game.

Download:
https://bitbucket.org/fk/gc-resolution-changer/downloads/gc-resolution-changer-2.1.zip

Source:
https://bitbucket.org/fk/gc-resolution-changer

See the included readme for installation instructions.

Dark Conspiracy, yes (IIRC you just do the steps for Ground Control and Dark Conspiracy will just work). Ground Control 2, no. But that has native widescreen support (again, IIRC).

Works well, thank you for the tool.

I did however try to set it at 2560 x 1440 which is my monitor's native resolution but I get an error when I try to launch the game. It seems 1920 x 1200 is as high as it wants to go.

Any chance to make it go higher than that?

Later edit:

I did some searching and it seems games running Direct X 7.0 are limited to a maximum resolution of 2048x1536. So unless someone has a different idea or the game gets remade on a more modern API we're pretty much stuck at 1080p for workable 16x9 resolutions.

Well I tried the Resolution Changer Mark II and it worked great :) Tanks fk and too chrix to an extent :)

Anyone that can still run this game?
Can't get it working in Windows 10 with a GTX 980 TI card, anyone with a dated high-end card that can run this?
Tried with XP SP2 compatibility mode and with fk.'s resolution changer, still getting CTD and "Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll " in Windows Event Viewer.

Strange, i have also Win10 but a GTX 980. Works perfectly fine for me (Played only 1 Mission atm)
One Thing for me is, that i formatted my Win10 last Week