How can I set a widescreen resolution?

I am trying to play Command & Conquer: Generals on a laptop with a native resolution of 1600x900 but the game doesn't appear to support any custom or widescreen resolutions. All of the resolutions in game appear to have an aspect ratio of 4:3, leaving large black bars down either side of the screen.

How do you run Command & Conquer: Generals in a custom widescreen resolution?

Solution 1:

In order to set a custom resolution, simply perform the following steps;

• Start the game for the first time
• Change the resolution from the default 800x600
• Exit the game
• Inside your My Documents folder, you will find a Command and Conquer Generals Data folder
• Inside this folder you will find a file called Options.ini, edit this file
• Find the line that says Resolution = and change the value from whatever it is to whatever you want

For example, for a resolution of 1600x900, you will want to set the Resolution = line to Resolution = 1600 900.

Solution 2:

Or you can modify shortcut path.

Something like this (for full hd resolution):

"C:\Program Files\EA Games\Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour\generals.exe" -win -xres 1920 -yres 1080

you can also add command -quickstart for skip intro playing every time... or -win for run game in windowed mode...