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Overdose Widescreen HUD Fix
By Lemmers
This guide will fix the stretched HUD on widescreen resolutions. This works best for 16:10, 16:9, 21:9, 48:10, and 48:9 displays, but has basic support for any resolution. It includes center screen HUD placement for Eyefinity and NV Surround super-widescreen displays and adds a customizable weapon draw distance, as well as many other features. This does not change any gameplay elements at all, only certain visual tweaks to make this a better experience on modern monitors.

This does not fix the stretched out menus or movies, but it is a huge improvement for the ingame HUD that was designed internally at 1024x768.
   
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Category: Modding or Configuration
Languages: English
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19 Nov, 2013 @ 12:39pm
3 Jul, 2015 @ 5:14pm
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Guide Index
Overview
Installation 
Console Commands 
Preview 
Changelog 
Comments
Installation
  • Download mediafire [dot] com/download/5aev1k5ubahts53 (Current Version is 1.0)

  • Place the \Data\ folder into your \Steam\steamapps\common\Painkiller Overdose\ directory

  • Open the folder that corresponds to your resolution, \16_9\ for example, and move this \Data\ folder into the same \steamapps\common\Painkiller Overdose\ directory. These are resized textures (Boss Health, Startup Screen, Crossbow Scope) that have been properly scaled for each resolution.

  • Go to Options > HUD for easily accessible options. You can use this menu for most things, but certain things (like zoomed FOV) still require using the console or .ini edits.


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    View the README file for more information.
Console Commands
These commands can also be changed by editing the config.ini, but nothing beats the flexibility of the console.

New Console Commands, listed with their default values.
WeaponFOV = -10 Weapon distance to camera, + or - Eyefinity = 0 Centers important HUD elements. 1=On, 0=Off EyefinityAdjust = 0 Fine-tunes HUD placement. Negative numbers push HUD out, positive pulls HUD in. Requires Eyefinity = 1 StakeFadeTime = 3600 Time in seconds for stakes and shurikens to fade. Default time is one hour. CrosshairSize = 0.75 Crosshair Size. 1=Full Size, 2=Double Size, 0.5=Half size PlayStartMovies = false Disables the three splash videos on startup PlayStartSound = false Enables the painkiller-mainlogo.wav on startup

Existing commands that are handy.
FOV = 110 (Changes the Field of Vision) HudSize = 0.5 (Changes the size of the HUD while constraining proportions)

New commands that require a restart to take effect. Useful to avoid .ini edits.
ZoomFOV = 60 Zoomed Weapon FOV
Preview
Default Settings (FOV 95, HUDSize 1, CrosshairSize 1)


Default Settings with HUD Fix installed (HUDSize 0.75)


Tweaked Settings with HUD Fix installed (FOV 110, HUDSize 0.5, CrosshairSize 0.75)



Changelog
Vers. 1.0
  • Initial release. These are the same base edits from my Black Edition mod, but updated for Overdose.
  • The compass icon will now always be the intended brown texture instead of randomly switching to the original silver arrow when you load a midgame save.


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Painkiller: Black Edition HUD Fix - http://cs2bus.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=193714598
Painkiller: Overdose HUD Fix - http://cs2bus.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=196469942
Painkiller: Resurrection HUD Fix - http://cs2bus.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=196994896
Painkiller: Redemption HUD Fix - http://cs2bus.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=212302748
Painkiller: Recurring Evil HUD Fix - Canceled


If the link to this mod expires, just let me know and I'll re-up it. I'm using MediaFire because it doesn't require people to signup. Just don't click on one of the 50 fake download links, you know the drill.


19 Comments
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jebez 15 Dec, 2024 @ 10:50am 
Same as I wrote here https://cs2bus.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=193714598 .
Terepin 2 Nov, 2024 @ 3:07am 
Just a warning: this is incompatible with the unofficial 86.3u patch.
Salmiron 4 Jul, 2024 @ 1:34pm 
Tnx! Very cool! :mrb_ivan:
alif 23 Mar, 2023 @ 7:35am 
Those looking for the fix's files can find it at:
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/786-painkiller-overdose-widescreen-hud-fix/
Kanaree 16 Nov, 2022 @ 3:15pm 
I know this is old as hell but, for me the HUD arrow seems to stretch like crazy whenever it's turned sideways. Any fix for this? I'm running a 21:9 monitor. Thanks!
Хэллоу, Стрэнжир! 21 May, 2022 @ 6:34am 
я один здесь с 2022222 года
NOMAD 2 Aug, 2021 @ 2:18pm 
Thank you for this fix :)
The Slayer 24 Sep, 2017 @ 7:48am 
hi mate, thank you very much for those fixed! very helpful! i hope to see fix also for Painkiller: Recurring Evil some day,
Skrinskas 23 May, 2017 @ 9:29am 
Hey, the link is expried, would you mind reuploading it?
b2007929 20 Sep, 2016 @ 2:01am 
Is this based on original Painkiller mods? The same options are added to HUD section: http://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/624-painkiller-mega-patch/

Correction : Movies aren't stretched, but zoomed in:
4:3 http://i.imgur.com/Y6LcIr3.png
16:9 http://i.imgur.com/sFoOuDJ.jpg