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Posted August 16, 2021
Please excuse my shameless plug but I wanted to make a post about a program that I have been working on for a few weeks now: The Zeus & Poseidon Resolution Customiser.

It is a program that essentially allows you to create a modified copy of the game's EXE that has all of the fixes that are present in the various widescreen mods and let you choose almost any resolution values you want the game to run at (except ones that cause bugs or are physically impossible to support). I designed this as a replacement for the various widescreen fixes that are available for this game. It currently supports only the Steam and GOG versions but I would like to add support for as many distributions and languages as possible.

You can find the program here: https://www.nexusmods.com/zeusmasterofolympus/mods/1

The source code is available here: https://github.com/XJDHDR/impressions-resolution-customiser
Post edited September 16, 2021 by XJDHDR
Posted August 17, 2021
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XJDHDR: Please excuse my shameless plug but I wanted to make a post about a program that I have been working on for a few weeks now: The Zeus & Poseidon Resolution Customiser.

It is a program that essentially allows you to create a modified copy of the game's EXE that has all of the fixes that are present in the various widescreen mods and let you choose almost any resolution values you want the game to run at (except ones that cause bugs or are physically impossible to support). I designed this as a replacement for the various widescreen fixes that are available for this game. It currently only supports the GOG version but I would like to add support for as many distributions and languages as possible.

You can find the program here: https://www.nexusmods.com/zeusmasterofolympus/mods/1

The source code is available here: https://github.com/XJDHDR/impressions-resolution-customiser
Thank you
Posted August 17, 2021
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XJDHDR: You can find the program here: https://www.nexusmods.com/zeusmasterofolympus/mods/1
Many thanks for this, I'll definitely be using it on my next play through. Thank you.
Posted February 17, 2022
I draw your attention
The widescreen patches (by JackFuste, 2012) has a bug that prevents Zeus (and Emperor) from switching to Windowed mode.
(And it has nothing to do with Color Rendering not 16bit)

web.archive.org/web/20190910005136/www.wsgf.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=14149&start=160#p144990

@vempire_ghost
The problems runs on Zeus with Posseion on a 2.1 version.
Now after I apply the fix to my resolution (i have both pcs, one in 1980x1020 and another 1280x1024) I cannot put in window mode anymore, only if I set the 800x600 resolution, or revert back to the original .exe and use a 1024x728 standard resolution.
It depends on the value of only one byte.
When I noticed the difference in CRC32, XJDHDR explained the reason to me:

@XJDHDR
JackFuste found a problem where EXEs that he had patched were no longer able to be switched into Windowed mode (they were locked to Fullscreen). He then released a patching program that was attached to the forum post linked above which fixed this problem and made it possible to switch into Windowed mode again. I'm not sure why it works but the program replaces a "jump forward 0x6F bytes if EAX is less than ECX" into a "always jump forward 0x6F bytes" command. My widescreen pack, as you observed, come with this fix pre-applied whereas the other packs you found don't.
Outdated patches without patch "noWindowed" bug
community . pcgamingwiki . com/files/file/1767-zeus-widescreen-fix/
www . moddb . com/mods/zeus-and-poseidon-full-hd-enfr/

XJDHDR Customiser with patch "noWindowed" bug
www . nexusmods . com/zeusmasterofolympus/mods/1

Now, if you're can't switch to Windowed Mode, then you know why.
Use a resizer from XJDHDR or apply a patch to the old ones.
Thx, XJDHDR!
Post edited February 18, 2022 by Telariust
Posted August 22, 2024
This doesn't work for me plus your instructions aren't clear my dude.

I installed a fresh copy of Zeus + Poseidon
Downloaded and ran the Widescreen customiser
Selected the Zeus.exe from the main Zeus folder
Created my patched files
Copied them into the Primary Zeus folder
Ran the game aaaaaand nothing.
I get a really small black box appear for a second and then nothing.

Your instructions on here and on your readme aren't clear at all, all you say is 'run the program and drop he .exe into the location of the installed game' but doing that doesn't work.

Any help would be appreciated.
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