This game was designed with the 16x9 aspect ratio in mind, but never really got its support.
Normally, if you run the game on widescreen monitor, you have couple of options.

- Obviously, you can run it in 4x3 resolution (with widescreen option turned off), which is how the game is intended to play on Xbox Original, but you'll get double letterboxing (on wide monitor):

- If you disable widescreen option in the INI file, you'll get a squished interface and movies along with actualy normal aspect ratio in game, but with large black bars:
 
- If you enable widescreen option in the INI file, you will get rid of black bars and get fullscreen movies, but the interface will remain squished and the entire gameplay will become stretched:
 
None of this is good. Probably, it would be best to take the 4x3 resolution and somehow crop it to fit a 16x9 screen (16x10 in my case). 🤔

This is where dgVoodoo2 comes to the rescue!
P.S. Don't mind the black bars, it's all my 16x10 monitor, on 16x9 everything should be fine.

- Firstly, find configuration INI files in Advent Rising\System folder, and set Widescreen=False in default.ini, then set ingame resolution to 1280x960 (you can do it in the game or manually in mydefault.ini).

- Download dgVoodoo2 from it's official website.[dege.freeweb.hu]

- Unzip dgVoodooCpl.exe, dgVoodoo.conf from archive, along with all DLL files from it's MS\x86 directory, everything goes to Advent Rising\System folder.

- Run dgVoodooCpl.exe and select some settings:


On General tab select Scaling Method - Centered, keep Aspect Ratio, and set your graphics card, just for sure.
On DirectX tab you should disable watermark, choose anisotropic and antialiasing settings, and set resolution.

Let's dwell on the resolution in more detail.
You need to calculate 4x3 resolution based on horizontal resolution of your screen.
In my case, I have 1680x1050 monitor, so vertical resolution will be 1680/4*3=1260, then my whole new 4x3 resolution will be 1680x1260.

Let's calculate some more:

• For 720p display it will be 1280x960 (obviously)
  
• For 1080p: 1920/4*3=1440, so it is 1920x1440
  
• For 4K: 3840/4*3=2880, so it is 3840x2880

- When you're done with settings, click Apply, close dgVoodoo2 and launch the game.