Playing SC4 in widescreen resolutions through EA's Origin

[CitizenCecil 0]

Hey all, have a question that maybe someone has an answer to. I'm playing SimCity 4 with EA's Origin service, and would love to play it in widescreen. I know the original SC4 has a workaround with the extension, but with Origin the files seem locked-up or non-existent. Does anyone have a solution? Is it possible to play SC4 through Origin with widescreen resolutions? Thanks in advance...

[Piteri 17]

Hey all, have a question that maybe someone has an answer to. I'm playing SimCity 4 with EA's Origin service, and would love to play it in widescreen. I know the original SC4 has a workaround with the extension, but with Origin the files seem locked-up or non-existent. Does anyone have a solution? Is it possible to play SC4 through Origin with widescreen resolutions? Thanks in advance...

If you can make a shortcut to the .exe file then you'll be able to run the 'extensions' like the rest of us do.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I don't know this from experience, but doesn't the Origin platform give you a place to put command line arguments? I read somewhere that the Steam version does. Both of these snoopware outfits have too much control to suit me.

[nukeu123 307]

the moose is right orgin DOSE NOT allow these short cut hacks just through a exe. shortcut as for now i found a file openable by note pad (or any texteditor ) that displays a huge lists of gfx options one of them being resalution size however i was only able to run under ubuntu os

  Edited May 22, 2012 by nukeu123  

[Ac1dDra90n 0]

Simple answer is not to use Origin to start the game. Look on your c:/ drive for "origin games" (I think it's in the program x86 file, I don't use the standard install location). Open SimCity 4 file, open Apps file, you'll see the sc4.exe file. Shortcut it to the desktop. Right click, properties, and it'll show you the command string. Add the start-up mods that you want the program to use after the ".

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I am glad ii is that easy to bypass the Origin snoopware. How about Steam? Anyone tried this end run?