widescreen for gaming

[razrbld]

ches
i think this site is gonna b a gr8 help for me if i actually get a hand on a widescreen.
thanx bro. Thank u ppl for ur valuable info. 😀

 

[jadeite]

I went from an old, reliable and big Sony Trinitron CRT to a 24" Acer Widescreen 1920x1200. It works GREAT for old games that use standard resolutions as the monitor automatically streches the games to the borders and there are no black borders! I can't even notice the aspect ratio being stretched. BF1942 looks great on this monitor. Being a gamer and CRT owner I have no complaints about refresh rates or ghosting either. I was very surprised just how good it is. It's an amazing monitor and cheapest in its class at about $500 and dropping.

 

[billdcat4]

I went from an old, reliable and big Sony Trinitron CRT to a 24" Acer Widescreen 1920x1200. It works GREAT for old games that use standard resolutions as the monitor automatically streches the games to the borders and there are no black borders! I can't even notice the aspect ratio being stretched. BF1942 looks great on this monitor. Being a gamer and CRT owner I have no complaints about refresh rates or ghosting either. I was very surprised just how good it is. It's an amazing monitor and cheapest in its class at about $500 and dropping.

Wow, thats great I had no idea the price dropped. For the longest time it was at 650~680 USD. Still, 22 inchers are much cheaper and the only caveat besides being slightly smaller is the odd resolution.

So I assume that you can use 1600x1200 and stretch it. Say you had a 19" lcd with 1440x900 or a 20" one w/ 1680x1050. What 5:4 resolution would you set it to?



I tried to hook up my pc to my Panansonic 720p AE700U Projector and I had a lot of issues getting the screen to work right. Farcry didnt work at all.

But what I did learn is that Rainbow 6: 3Raven Shield will work at any resolution that your screen can display. I ran it at 720p native and it looked quite good. So I guess that the Unreal 3 engine (if im right) or just that game allows for any resolution to be used.

 

[ches111]

Billd,

Many of the newer engines support the "now mainstream" resolutions of HDTV.

720P, 1080i and 1080P are probably supported in every newer engine. They would be fools NOT TO.

PS... I play Unreal Tournament on my Optima H78DC3 at 118" and at 720P res and it looks/plays very well.

Also Billd,

Did you try to set your res in console mode within farcry? You might be able to run custom "full widescreen res" through the console.

I have to set Call of Duty UO this way.. (Lan Parties)

 

[ches111]

raz/billd,

Be advised that some games support a wider FOV when WS displays/resolutions are used. You may have to enable/tweak them for this though.