I found a way to avoid CTD with forced resolutions, instructions are bellow,
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY.
It seems that PR is using old BF2 way of detecting hardware (limited) thus it can see only certain specs and use for example one core (amd) or 2 cores (intel) and clamp ram use as well as resolution use.
There is a way to force this but it involves some very risky modification. So before we proceed...
WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS IF YOU ARE UNFAMILIAR WITH COMPUTER HARDWARE AND YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW YOUR HARDWARE OPERATES IN GAMES AND APPLICATIONS. USING MODIFICATION FROM BELLOW CAN CAUSE SERIOUS PROBLEMS. IF YOU DO USE THE MODIFICATION YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ARE USING IT ON YOUR OWN RISK.
You can "unlock" new resolutions for any device your system is connected to with a display by disabling EDID/E-EDID or HDCP.
What is EDID/E-EDID, HDCP? In laymans terms it's factory settings limiter installed by manufacturer to prevent users from using unsafe settings. It's basically speed limit choke for bikes, except for monitors. This standard is most common in VGA and DVI monitors but is also used in HDMI.
IMPORTANT FACTORS:
Changing resolution isn't that simple, there are key elements that can determine durability of your monitor and can it actually perform the tasks.
1. Monitor plug (VGA, DVI, HDMI) they're all different and behave differently.
2. Monitor panel form (LCD, TFT, LED, AMOLED, whatever else is out there) they all behave differently with pixels and refresh rates.
3. Your processing and gpu power, if you can't run PR with standard resolutions
DON'T EVEN TRY WITH EXPERIMENTAL ONE, YOU CAN MESS THINGS UP.
4. Everything has limits even if pushed outside of boundaries, just because your monitor/hardware can perform higher doesn't mean it will do it properly.
SAFETY FIRST:
1. Make sure you're familiar with modding of settings else just use standard stuff.
2. Test on hardware that you own for more than 6 to 12 months and are comfortable with (ie you can fix if you break)
3.
DO NOT under any circumstances use highest settings past the EDID/HDCP barrier,
EVER.
How to disable and tweak EDID/HDCP:
ATI
1. Open Radeon Settings and go advanced settings, or CCC.
2. Click on My [Identifier here, it can be what your monitor is, ie VGA, DVI, HDMI etc] Settings.
3. Find where your resolution settings are and untick EDID/HDCP box to disable use of it, click apply, if nothing goes awry click ok.
4. Get back to the window you found EDID/HDCP in and find resolution selector.
5. Select new resolution limit. This is your new MAXIMUM resoltion, again
DO NOT USE HIGHEST SETTING select some reasonable barrier, say 1.5 or 2x scale of what your standard resolution is.
6. Select refresh rate, just like with resolution
DO NOT USE HIGHEST SETTING. Safest refresh rates for both your eyes and monitor range from 60 to 140hz, again different monitors have different settings. 60hz is not recommended, specially for older monitors.
7. Click apply, if everything is normal, click OK.
8. Exit the CCC settings.
9. Use resolution options instructions from bellow.
nVidia:
1. Sorry, I don't own nVidia never did actually so have no idea how to do this, but I am sure nVidia got some sort of settings for this.
Resolution Options in PR
WARNING: This is for PR ONLY, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE NON-STANDARD RESOLUTIONS AS YOUR DESKTOP NATIVE, IF YOU DO AND YOUR MONITOR DOESN'T SUPPORT IT YOU CAN GET LOCKED OUT AND WILL NEED TO USE ADMIN TOOLS TO RESTORE IT (!!!)
1. Launch PR launcher ( (Punny) D-D-D-D-D-Double punny ).. puns within puns... #punception xD
2. Go to Options.
3. Select your "new" resolution (DON'T GO TOO HIGH)
4. Click Apply.
5. Click Play.
6. If your "new" resolution works and game doesn't crash you're good to go.
7. If you see a black screen or your monitor is not responding, try to ALT-TAB and close the game from Task Manager, if you can't do that, do a soft reset (system restart button)
So there you have it, PR with higher resolution
This way I managed to force 2K for the game (2048?1080 and 1998?1080 for me) and also tried 4K (4096?2160 , 4096?1716 and 3996?2160 for me) but there are problems I faced - With some of them input of keys doesn't work, refresh rate is lower than what I wanted and the resolutions ate so much of ram memory, PR would crash randomly within 5-15 minutes use or sometimes not even start, and game FOV would be waaaaay messed up making UI items super tiny or out of boundaries and the player hands would be 1/4 of the display instead covering normal near edge-to-edge the way it was meant to be. Those weren't safe for me so I found a sweet spot a bit lower than 2K native and I'm using that now in PR, works brilliant
I don't know about your specs but when I tested those resolutions I found out that:
1. Processing power barely jumps past 12%.
2. GPU heats up and eats ram more.
3. RAM memory is used more.
I hope this helped you and that you didn't break anything. To restore settings just switch EDID/E-EDID, HDCP controls back on and use old resolution in PR.