Ground Control II is a real-time tactics game set in a gritty science-fiction universe. The explosively fast game play focusing on combat tactics with full use of the 3D battlefield, with weather and other environmental effects affecting the unit's performance on the battleground. In the war torn year of 2741, Captain Jacob Angelus of the Northern Star Alliance (NSA) becomes the central figure in the fight against the warmongering Terran Empire. In an attempt to crush the NSA permanently, the Terran Empire sends in an alien race of powerful warriors - the Virons. It soon becomes apparent that the situation is bleak for the NSA and that their only hope is to embark on an Exodus to another part of the galaxy. Jacob Angelus must find a way to let his people survive.

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Using this patch you can run Ground Control 1 at any resolution.

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Ground Control 1 resolution changer
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Raygoza
Raygoza

Hey Voice, nice resolution fix, there is just one thing that bother me, I can´r run Ground control dark conspirety in full screen, but apart from that this does acctully work.

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Raygoza
Raygoza

And when it comes to the icons and hud screen like the maps and the units card, they stay small like in the picture.
Is it possible to make them bigger? It whould make the game alot more user friendly.

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voice_))))) Author
voice_)))))

I'll see what I can do. No promise though :)

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Raygoza
Raygoza

ok, but let me know if you come up with something to fix this, the game deserve it ;)

I tried to fix this on my own but ended up to make ground control DC unable to run, I guess that I have to reinstall the DC epansion pack :(

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voice_))))) Author
voice_)))))

Hmm, 1.0.1.1 [ENGLISH] Cracked EXE page (search google) says that it works fine also for DC. It does indeed work fine by itself, but when I apply my patch to it I get this error:
D3DX Error
D3DXERR_INVALIDMODE
Just checking - do you also get this exact message?

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voice_))))) Author
voice_)))))

Also weirdly enough it works at 1366x768.

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Raygoza
Raygoza

No what i get is that despite it suppose to run GC DC the game run the main ground control game only GC and no full screen :( that happen when I try to run DC with the shortcut...

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voice_))))) Author
voice_)))))

If you want DC, you should start it via shortcut placed in start menu/desktop. Alternatively, you must pass "-mod DARKCONS" as command line argument.
EDIT: Ok nvm.

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Raygoza
Raygoza

my computer screen res is 1600x900

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Raygoza
Raygoza

yes, I did that, still wont work...

I wouldn´t come in contact with you if it was that simple, but nevermind, the game is atleast playable. and It feels kind of offensive to ask you do more.
But i whould appriciate if you atleast give it another go.

By the way I found this fix by accident, it whould be nice if you upload your fix to other webites so it reach to more people. This GOG (good old game) game deserve it.

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kschang777
kschang777

Got it to work... on the primary monitor. :)

I have a laptop, one's the native display (1600x900) and I have a monitor hooked up and it does 1680x1050.

I tried declare 1680x1050 and GC just crashed going "huh? What res is that?" (well, not the exact error, but basically DXRes failed or something like that)

Then I realized it probably used primary so I patched again with 1600x900 and it worked.

So this brings up the question... is there a way to force the EXE to come up on the 2nd monitor? (20 inch vs. 17 of the laptop) Do I like pick the 2nd video card from the res change dialog? Does that have ANY effect? :)

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wagner21br
wagner21br

Also got it to work with Ground Control: Dark Conspiracy. I was getting the D3DXERR_INVALIDMODE error, but the following steps worked for me:

-Clean installation of Ground Control v1.0.0.7;
-Clean installation of Dark Conspiracy. The DC installation patches the game to v1.0.1.1;
-Executed the resolution_changer.zip steps described in the readme file, but using gc_cracked_type1.exe (v1.0.1.1) instead of _type2.exe (v1.0.0.8).This solved the D3DXERR_INVALIDMODE issue for me, though the resolution_changer application still ends with an error after I input my custom resolution (I just ignored the error).
-Modified the launcher.bat file to add "-mod DARKCONS" as command line argument for gc.exe;
-Ran launcher.bat and I got Ground Control: Dark Conspiracy running at 1680x1050 in fullscreen :)

FYI, my setup is a single monitor, Windows 10 64-bit, GeForce GTX 550 Ti. To get the best graphics, I tweaked Nvidia 3D graphics properties of gc.exe in Nvidia Control Panel to force Anisotropic filtering 16x and to deactivate Anti-Aliasing (AA activated made things all blurry).

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Lasercar
Lasercar

Try using the latest version from gitlab: Gitlab.com

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Lasercar
Lasercar

This should really be removed or updated. Seems like many people fall into the trap of using this version when the latest one can be found on gitlab.

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Lasercar
Lasercar

Which I forgot to add, is found here: Gitlab.com

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