Wide Screen Monitor Woes

[rauchen]

I have a 22 in widescreen monitor & I set my graphics to suit:

1280,Width
768,Height

But I can 't read some of the instruments & it seems that rather than widen my field of view it just cuts off the vertical.  I can't move the head pos back far enough to read the airspeed or alt or some other critical things in the cockpit & in dogfights I lose guys in the vert, almost like there's a chink in my views...

Anyone know what I can do about this? 

Thanks,

[MrRiplEy[H]]

First of all run your monitor at its native resolution. The resolution you gave is most likely not it.

Second this is a feature in AH, the image gets cropped when running widescreen. If your monitor has pivot action you can actually reverse the situation and turn the wide side upwards to get more vertical image like eagl did.

Third thing you cn do to remedy the situation is to use trackir. With free headtracking you will be much less limited by the borders of the screen.

[Ghosth]

Thats the problem with Widescreen monitors.

Some say turn it the other way (Portrait) doesn't cut anything off.

[HomeBoy]

Does anyone know if there is a wide screen monitor that accepts 5:4 aspect?  I have a 21" crt running 1800x1440 and my attitude up to now is you'd have to "pry it out of my cold dead hands."  From time to time I look at what's available in the 5:4 LCD market.  I do not want widescreen because I don't want to have ANYTHING chopped off.  (Remember John Bobbit?)  I would consider turning loose of my crt for a 5:4 LCD with a native resolution of 1600x1200 e.g. this one:  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001226 but if there was a wide screen monitor that could do 1600x1200 without degradation than that would be even better.

Anybody know?

thanks
-hb