***FOR ANYONE HAVING PROBLEMS GETTING THIS PATCH TO WORK***
In the other thread, on not being able to click to select any options on the loader, I found the answer...
Like me, you most likely have your taskbar at the top edge of your desktop and screen. Moving it temporarily to the bottom edge not only resolves not being able to click on, and select, options within the loader window, it allows the hi-res patch to work, and you wil see "hi-res" noted in the options once you have access to these.
The result is sweet. Sure, being on a 1680*1050 resolution laptop screen, I still have black at the edges (unless I want to choose a different nVIDIA scaling setting) but now I have a playable resolution.
I'm looking forward to finally getting into this awesome game that I have toyed with in the past but not seriously played - only 10+ years too late! ;-)
Thanks to whomever realised the menu solution, for me to be able to try in order to verify it also as a hi-res patch solution too.
Post edited July 21, 2011 by d3v14n7