Quote Originally Posted by BDC
How can I force this? I change it in preferences and it just changes back to default.

Someone mentioned though that it can be done in the patch thread, but it still doesn't work. As a result I'm still playing with a fuzzy game because I'm on an LCD monitor...

Must be specific to your system, because I can do it with preferences.txt. If you try to check it in game it will probably reset because it won't recognize the mode. When I tested it it would show something like 800x600x16 in the resolution menu, but it clearly wasn't and I used my monitor's OSD to confirm that I was indeed in 1280x1024.