Lord Athlon
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Originally posted by: Mem
Originally posted by: n7
No, no it doesn't.
See, something most people seem to be blind to is the fact that most online multiplayer fps games do not actually support widescreen, regardless of what the resolution is set to.
So then you get a lovely stretched distorted picture, no bigger or better than if you weren't running WS...
I heard so much hype about WS before i got my WS display, & now that i have one, i can say that WS gaming isn't all that.
Unless you happen to be lucky enough to be playing games that actually support WS.
As for BF2 there is a way round that to support WS mode ie....
Widescreen Support
Method
BF2 gets it's WS support through a Command Line edit:
"C:\Games\Battlefield 2 Demo\BF2.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1920 +szy 1200
So even that is not a problem.
It's still a problem because it's not true widescreen.The game is VERT - (crop the top and bottom) instead of HOR + (extra view to the sides without cropping) and the HUD is stretched with the command line/shortcut trick.There is also no possible way to adjust the FOV via the ini.The bottom line is that someone with a 16:10 monitor actually see less on the screen than someone using a 4:3 monitor.
It would be easily fixable in a patch but DICE/EA refuse to do so.They claim that adding true widescreen support would be an unfair advantage for those using a WS monitor due to the extra viewing area.That's BS because 1) WS users are now at disavantage compared to the 4:3 users and 2)It's like saying that the game shouldn't support joysticks because it give an unfair advantage to the jet pilots.So lik i said they are indeed retarded
Now sorry for the rant but i feel better