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Offline OOZ662

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« Reply #15 on: August 18, 2007, 08:51:40 AM »
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It's a fair trade.  You lose some vertical image and gain horizontal image.


Incorrect. The image you are seeing is a 4:3 image that has the image "stretched" past the top and bottom limits of your monitor. Those pixels are simply not shown.

It's as if you took a poster, cut a piece the size of your monitor out, and pasted it on.
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« Reply #16 on: August 18, 2007, 09:32:16 AM »
I recently got a 22"LCD wide screen. I love it.
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« Reply #17 on: August 18, 2007, 10:08:07 AM »
What 00Z said.  I love my widescreen viewsonic for my web work and other stuff, but I'm still getting used to the lack of the normal vertical display.  I fly the yak alot and I used to be able to see all gauges in the forward view, now I miss the bottom row entirely and most planes I have to page down or look forward down to see the gauges.  Had I known that I would have stuck with a non-widescreen LCD.
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« Reply #18 on: August 18, 2007, 10:51:03 AM »
I just bought a Westinghouse 22 WS inch last week.  It has average performance with a contrast ratio of 700:1 and a refresh ratio of .05 ms or whatever.  It’s replacing a decent flat 19” Viewsonic CRT.  I absolutely love it even though its average.  I bought it because it was on sale for $180.  I’ll never go back to CRT.
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« Reply #19 on: August 18, 2007, 11:54:09 AM »
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NEED MORE PIXELS!  But seriously, losing 100-200 pixels more often than not isn't going to make or break you dying.


I tried a WS that had a native rez of 1440x900.

I now use a 3x4 LCD with a native rez of 1280x1024.

900 vert rez verses 1024 vert rez, that's 124 rows of pixels not available to a WS desplay. I called it a few but I was being facetious, It makes a big difference, IMO.
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« Reply #20 on: August 18, 2007, 12:29:33 PM »
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« Reply #21 on: August 18, 2007, 07:35:49 PM »
The most disheartening thing about this thread is discovering OOZ662's avatar is gone, as wel as that beautiful lady?  Eek!

Again, thanks for all the input.  The 2 sims I fly the most are Aces High and Falcon 4 Allied Force.  F4 has a mode that works well with widescreen.  Aces might require some tinkering.

The big reason to go to LCD is my girlfriend and kids are moving in, so the computer room becomes her sons room.  The flying computer winds up in the bedroom, so going LCD gives us a lot of deskspace back.  And golly, what a great reason to upgrade  :D
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« Reply #22 on: August 18, 2007, 10:18:32 PM »
24" iMac here.  Looked GREAT last time I played.
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« Reply #23 on: November 17, 2007, 09:25:33 AM »
I guess this and many other games were designed for the ancient 4:3 setup. Works Fine. Buy a new graphics card ~ $300 and  a wide screen 22" $400 and loose the bottom 1/4 of the screen. Great if flighin a zeke or something but crap in a 190. Cant tell how much ammo left, flap or gear settings. seems like BS deal to me. I can adjust to rescaling but cropping screen is a SEVERE Disadvantage

Warbirds III seems to handle it brilliantly.

Cheers ............Hitech ...........FIX IT and come into the 21st century dudes.
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« Reply #24 on: November 17, 2007, 09:32:37 AM »
I have two 19" standard width lcds. I much prefer two screens over one wide screen. Not sure how two widescreens would compare.

I do a lot of remote work from home and being able to easily maximize another pc or even IE to one screen is very handy. Much easier than if I had the same desktop space but on one monitor.
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« Reply #25 on: November 17, 2007, 09:34:21 AM »
We've got a widescreen (well, not me, my husband does over on his).  I think it's ugly. It distorts everything slightly.
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« Reply #26 on: November 17, 2007, 09:39:42 AM »
Texasmom, if it's distorting the image, then the screen resolution is incorrect.  Go into the display control panel, click the Settings tab, and check the resolution.  Set it to the proper resolution for the monitor.  What model is the monitor?  We can look up the rez if it's not obvious.
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« Reply #27 on: November 17, 2007, 09:44:04 AM »
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Texasmom, if it's distorting the image, then the screen resolution is incorrect.  Go into the display control panel, click the Settings tab, and check the resolution.  Set it to the proper resolution for the monitor.  What model is the monitor?  We can look up the rez if it's not obvious.


Not interested in helping my husband with that, but thanks. If he's satisfied with it, fine.  I think it looks like crap, and I'm happy with my own computer :)

*edit* (sorry, if it wasn't morning time, I may be more compassionate toward him about it... usually in the morning though, I just don't give a hoot.  Later in the day I'll probably come back & take your advice to fix that for him... but for right now, he's on his own).
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Offline MajWoody

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« Reply #28 on: November 17, 2007, 11:50:35 AM »
Samsung 206BW 20" wide screen.
One word......awesome
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« Reply #29 on: November 17, 2007, 12:24:53 PM »
one two or ten screens give me back the bottom half :)
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