I recently bought a widescreen monitor and the thought occurred to me. Will it be possible to display AoD in a widescreen format without stretching the 2D interface? Is it even possible to render the game in those resolutions?
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Widescreen?
- Thread starter Bradylama
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Vault Dweller
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I have absolutely no idea. Good question though.
Psilon
Erudite
For that matter, please make sure you properly clip the mouse cursor to the AoD window. GalCiv2 was practically unplayable for a while because every other click went through to the other monitor and basically alt-tabbed me out.
Jed
Cipher
Just give the option to play in a window and your wide-screen woes are taken care of.
Nick
Iron Tower Studio
Yep
This is in.Jed said:
Jed
Cipher
Yay! Currently, and for the foreseeable future, my only computer is a widescreen laptop, and truth be told, most games look like crap on it in fullscreen mode.
Paranoid Jack
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I too use nothing but wide-screen setting lately... since my new monitor is a wide-screen LCD. So if it supports 1440x900 that would be great though some of the higher res settings would also work just fine.
Still very anxious to play AoD. Though CoH has eased that pain and I am now looking forward to G3 more than ever.
Still very anxious to play AoD. Though CoH has eased that pain and I am now looking forward to G3 more than ever.
Admiral Rimjob POOBUM
Arcane
obediah said:Jon said:
what the hell kind of crappy resolution is that? I guess all those 1400x1050 users were clammering for teh widescreen.
1920x1200 or bust babey!
I champion 1024x768.
Psilon
Erudite
Slower frame rates. Video cards don't have infinite fill rates, you know.
whatusername
Scholar
Add an option for windowed mode for the people who have a huge-ass resolution.
Admiral Rimjob POOBUM
Arcane
I retract my previous statement. Today, I've been using 1x1.
'Tis the most beautiful pixel I ever did saw.
'Tis the most beautiful pixel I ever did saw.
fizzelopeguss
Arcane
obediah said:Jon said:
what the hell kind of crappy resolution is that? I guess all those 1400x1050 users were clammering for teh widescreen.
It's the resolution for the best monitor on the market today, The NEC 20wgx2.
Bah
Arcane
Bradylama said:
Another vote for widescreen support. Gothic 3 "supports" playing in a 16:9 or 16:10 resolution, but it still renders the images assuming a 4:3 display, so everything just stretches out. Every new 3D game I've played for the last few years has properly rendered 16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratios, except Gothic III.
On the other hand, I have a CRT, so only being able to play in a 4:3 resolution isn't a super big deal. My monitor just displays the 4:3 picture in the center of the display with black on either side. I thought most LCDs supported doing that too, although I suppose the cheap LCDs might not.
Bah
Arcane
sheek said:
16:9 is standard DVD widescreen format. 4:3 is standard NTSC tv broadcast format.
Or in other word, for 16:9, the width is 1.77~ times more than the height. And for 4:3, the width is only 1.33~ times the height.
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