The game is apparently lacking in screen resolution options

Does the game directory happen to have a configuration tool? And if it doesn't or that is no help, is there a good old settings ini you can edit back in Documents?

Not being smarmy.... but you're genuinely using a CRT in this day and age? I cannot understand why, their image quality is inferior to modern monitors, they consume 3x more electricity than a LCD and are simply inferior in all regards (shorter lifespan as well on them, they tend to blow a fuse after 5 years on average)... they are also museum pieces, I can't even find a store that sells them unless I went to a pawn shop perhaps.

Curious why you like CRT monitors.

Pretty good ammo if you have a ballista?

Does it actually look as good? Even scaled down, my first LED monitor looked better than my last CRT. Of course, part of that might have been that I never had to scale the LED far enough down to get as low as the CRT.

I prefer the overall picture quality on CRT, colour depth etc.
Although there are LCD I would accept they cost more than the normal ones.

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Knowing that this day and age was coming? That most if not all gamers now use widescreen, yeah I know that, it have been like that for a while. OTH it is not more work for bioware to include more resolution settings, the worst thing that can happen is that some parts of the UI don't scale correctly if crappy programmed. And from what I've seen of the UI so far I doubt that that would be an issue. They cared in all their other games and all other new games I've played still support the older resolutions (except that mordheim and Battlefleet Gothic have a few UI issues)

The CRT I use is from 2005 and still work with no issue, I even have 3 spares + a broken one

Sony used to make 24" widescreen CRTs but those are hard to come by.

either way I do not like the picture on a LCD I wish the SED (Surface-conduction electron-emitter display) screens would have gotten somewhere instead of those crappy LCD screens. It is like TV when my Plasma breakes I wwill have a hard time finding a decent replacement.

Just because most people are now used to the crappy LCD picture doesn't mean that it is better.

Some people simply have perfectly good monitors that just happen to be 4:3. And are not about to go buy another just because game developers are being lazy and cutting costs.
For example, I have a 10 years old 1600*1200 20 inches LCD monitor, buying the wide one with the same size would be worthless, a bigger one with FullHD would only result in bigger pixels, and anything with a higher native resolution would require a videocard upgrade.
So, I'm very disappointed by BW not supporting 4:3 resolutions in Andromeda.

I just tried changing manually, it just setts it to the default resolution when I start the game,

When under 6% of players use something, is it worth caring about?

By that measure, things not worth caring about include:
- movement-impaired people
- hearing-impaired people
- colour-blind or otherwise sight-impaired people
Yet game developers make concious effort to accommodate those people and their needs within game design by having colour-blind graphical settings, closed captions for in-game sounds, and re-bindable control schemes.

Morals have nothing to do with this, it's all expected profit versus expected costs of development and support. Enabling resolutions that engine already supports so that they show up in configuration tool is very cheap, and I expect it to be done. Increased satisfaction of additional 6% of customers is a worthy reward.

Other issues is textures. lower resolution's require textures that are appropriate to the resolution size, considering that CRT's are hardly ever used anymore outside of retro gaming so they could have decided it wasn't worth the time or resources to downgrade textures for those resolutions.  1080Pp is the standard now and we are going into 4K which require more time and resources to create.