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Is there any way to increase the resolution beyond 640×480 in the 3D Enhanced versions of MW2, the D3D versions of Mercenaries or the Titanium Pack?

April 26, 2017d3d Enhanced increase mercenaries mw2 resolution versions

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Is there any way to increase the resolution beyond 640×480 in the 3D Enhanced versions of MW2, the D3D versions of Mercenaries or the Titanium Pack?

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MW2 3D Enhanced (OEM) Editions To date, I honestly have never really spent much time trying to change the resolutions of these versions. Considering the hardware that the ATI Rage, Matrox Mystique and S3 ViRGE versions were made to work on, they are generally not worth trying to change. Perhaps the ATI Rage version at 640×480 or higher would be nice on an 8mb Rage Pro on a decent system, but supposedly it is locked to 512×384@60Hz. The 3Dfx version already offers 800×600 (as does the ViRGE, oddly enough). Now that I think about it, the one that I would most want to increase resolution in would be the PowerVR version, since it is one of the nicest ports and the card supports up to 1024×768. Recently, I found out that using a different MW2SHELL.DLL file for 3Dfx/D3D Mercs unlocked higher resolutions (for details, see below) and this makes me think that I might be able to do this for MW2 as well. The S3 ViRGE edition was the single one that offered resolution changes in the “Combat Variab