In my last post I said Grid did not support FullHD mode, but with a little tweaking it does. Grid is an older game, and it probably can’t read all the hardware info from the newer graphics cards. Mine has 3GB of RAM, but the restrictions in Grid won’t allow you to go beyond a width of 1280 when your system has less then 270MB. So Grid must not understand 3000MB.
Here’s how to change the config files. Make a backup of each file first, in case you screw things up.
1) c:\steam\steamapps\common\Grid\system\hardware_settings_restrictions.xml
Find the line containing:
<res mem="270" maxWidth="1280" />
and change the value of maxWidth to 1920.
2) {userdocuments}\Codemasters\GRID\hardware_settings_info.xml
Add the 1920×1080 resolution by adding the following lines:
<resolution width="1920" height="1080" aspect="normal">
<refreshRate rate="50" />
<refreshRate rate="60" />
</resolution>
3) {userdocuments}\Codemasters\GRID\hardware_settings_config.xml
In the graphics_card section, change the resolution settings to something like this:
<resolution width="1920" height="1080" aspect="16:9" fullscreen="true"
vsync="1" oldWidth="1920" oldHeight="1080">
<refreshRate rate="60" />
</resolution>
Start GRID. It should work. It will ask you if you want to keep the new resolution of 1920×1080 and after that you’re good to go. Have fun.
i followed your instructions ad got it to work in 1920×1080 but i can’t get it to work with 5760×1080 🙁 Do you have any idea how to get it work for nividia surround?
I tried removing the restriction line altogether cept for the data potion accordind to WSGF and then thee game won’t even start
I have no experience with resolutions above FullHD, so I’m not sure if the game will support it without further patches or so. But yes, triple width would be very nice! I’ll have a try later, not racing lately (too busy playing Diablo 3).
ah yeah, D3 got good now that Blizzard finally got their act together. Apparently this guy was able to do it both natively and with bezel corrections from Steam
http://steamcommunity.com/app/12750/discussions/0/630800446055147740/
We solved it on the steam forums for Nividia Surround, Apparently Windows 8 does not like running this game with bezel correction I had to switch out of surround to multiple displayed then switch back without bezel correction. and i was able to run it at 5760×1080
the moment i switch to a bezel correction (even if i switch back to native it won’t work unless I switch back and forth from multiple displays.
Thanks for letting me know the solution. This post is requested a lot, so it will be read a lot. Race on!
hi, where precisely in the {userdocuments}\Codemasters\GRID\hardware_settings_info.xml file must i add the
code? must it also be under the graphics_card section?
I had a reinstall of my system and haven’t played the game since, so the setting (in {userdata}) is lost. But I didn’t specifically wrote that it should be in the graphics_card section so I guess it’s not needed.