This is a great guide for those having trouble with this game. It has some helpful tweaks to get the game running properly as well as some strategy guides to help the landlubbers. Enjoy!

Sea Dogs Guide

For those that want widescreen, just edit the engine.ini file with your desired resolution. I'm running at 1920x1080. Cutscenes and gameplay are scaled correctly; fonts scale correctly, menus and HUD are stretched (but tolerable).

Is the FOV / camera angle really true and the picture just gets horizontal + ??
If I think back to Sea Dogs 2, 16:9 resolution was just and zoomed-in 4:3 picture, which I didn't like.

Look this video to understand what I mean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbICu6BcYmA

From my untrained eye it does adjust FOV slightly but also zooms in. The 16:9 resolutions chop off the top and bottom (vertical) slightly but extend the FOV to include a little bit more on the left/right (horizontal). It's a bit of a compromise but definitely playable. Way better than AOP2: CoAS where it was a straight up zoomed version of the 4:3. I'll try and post a screenshot comparison. This one does NOT chop your Captain's feet off.


Edit: now with pictures

The links were broken in the original post in this thread, but you can get Hosehead's SEADOGS INFORMATION & STRATEGY GUIDE direct from GameFAQs.