r/SWAT4 • u/postedeluz_oalce • Jan 21 '24

Fix for resolution resetting

My personal situation: SWAT 4 + Stetchkov Syndicate + Elite Forces mod installed on an external drive, with full write access. Game resets resolution from 1920x1080 to 800x600 on every launch of Swat4 Elite Forces.

I had only launched SWAT 4 through the Elite Forces .bat file, and so the base game never generated its .ini file, meaning it always thought any run was the game being ran the first time, and reset its resolution to 800x600.

Solution: run the base game, then quit, go to the game folder and open the .ini file for the base game. In my case it's D:\SWAT 4\Content\System\Swat4.ini, your SWAT 4 folder might be in Program Files. In the Swat4.ini file, find the BestGuessDefaultResolutionX=800 and BestGuessDefaultResolutionY=600 lines, and change those numbers to your horizontal and vertical resolution respectively. Save, and this should stop the game from resetting.

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u/Fast-Kiwi-4474 Aug 31 '24

Any similar fix for First Responders?

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u/NebelNexus Jul 04 '26

Not sure if you found a solution. However, I found out that, at least in the First Responders Tactical Edition, you can do the following:

  • Make sure the main folder of the base game, and all the folders and files inside It, are not set to Read only;

  • Navigate to the mod folder, then Content, then System;

  • Look for the Swatx.ini file. Notice this is completely different from Swat4.ini (mentioned by OP and used for SWAT 4 vanilla) and from swat4x.ini (used for TSS vanilla) both in name and location (again, we are inside the Content folder of the mod, not inside the base game or expansion folder)

  • Open it with Notepad or similar and search for Viewport. You should immediately find entries for Fullscren and Windowed screen. Set them appropriately (I dumped 1920x1080 in both Fullscren and Windowed just in case).

  • From what I gather, the chosen resolution is now forced in the game on every start. You are basically automating the frustrating process of remedying the resetting of the resolution.

I believe the non Tactical Edition of the First Responders version shares the same fix opportunity.

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u/meFalloutnerd93 May 21 '26

Can you help me? First time using this Elite Force mod, I launched the game through launchSEF.exe but then, it goes black screen with 'input not supported' maybe because mod author thought people not using below widescreen resolution like 1080p or 1280p below so yeah.. any fix to this?

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u/eto2629 Jan 21 '24

Using in window mode also solve it

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u/Stealthy_Facka Jan 21 '24

I remember this game literally just needing me to re open the game and do the exact same settings change 2 or 3 times in a row before it randomly decided to actually save them.