Not to hijack the thread but I have Another monitor question if someone knows the answer.
I have a Dell s2209w 22" monitor that says the native resolution is 1920x1080@60hz. My question is that the game wont let me set the resolution at this resolution.Is that because of my integrated video chip not being able to handle it.I currently have the game at 1024x768 and with everything down a recent memory upgrade (2gigs) the game is very playable with no issues. Any ideas? Would downloading the HiRes allow me to view things widescreen,or (as silly as this sounds)is 1024x768 widescreen?
no sir, are you sure that is not suppose to be 1620 x 1080 for wide screen? 1920 x 1280 is also for wide screen ( for Standard 4:3 it would be 1440 x 1080 or 1707 x 1280 )
all the following resolutions are regular 4:3 aspect ratio: ( if you look back, remember that all 5 of these screen res settings were what we actually saw for our old CRT monitors we used to use )
640 x 480
800 x 600
1024 x 768
1067 x 800
1280 x 1024 ( <--- most modern Standard 4:3 LCD screens stop at this aspect ratio )
( NOTE - for 4:3 aspect ratio Aces High plays best @ 1280 x 1024 screen res settings, and sometimes one will see a decrease in performance when dropping to 1024x768 screen res )
1423 x 1067 }
1707 x 1280 }
}------------------- these aspect ratio / resolutions one would hardly ever see in a standard LCD Monitor
1897 x 1423 }
2276 x 1707 }
NOTE* for most people in Aces High, leaving your "Field of View" setting set to auto is recommended...... however for some of us, we might need to manually set the "Field of View" to 90 degrees for Standard Monitors, to where it now reverts back to 86 degrees if left to auto, this is cutting part of your picture off when in the game......
NOTE* if you are using a wide screen LCD it will be much higher from 110 to 120 degrees and should pick up automatically without adjustment.....
TC's experience testing this: while testing on 4 Standard LCD monitors and 2 or 3 wide screen monitors..... all Standard Aspect Ratio monitors recently started auto loading with 86 degrees rather than the 90 degrees it first used when the game settings switched to this feature of being able to set the "Field of View Angle" ( had me actually freaking out until I found the problem, I thought my HPS settings ( views ) had gotten messed up somehow. when just changing this from 86 to 90 and my views were back like I had them set originally ...... )
all the Wide Screen Monitors stayed with the same auto setting, however
( when you have "Auto" selected, you can still see what your field of view degrees are, they are just grayed out ! )
YMMV > this may not be the case for everyone, it is just what I have experienced in loading up AH on 5 seperate computers and using different monitors, different video cards, different joysticks... ( you know, got to love HTC for all the quick updates &/or patches... but man it gets to be a pain when you are updating 4 or 5 different PC's every time just to see how the new updates affect gameplay, etc... 
)also, I do not know if this still applies for LCD monitors today, but I was once informed to have the drivers ( Monitor INF file ) installed for my particular monitor, and to not use the Plug & Play / automatic detect feature of Windows ( 98, 2000, XP, etc )
I was told by using this Plug & Play setting, that it would shorten my monitors life... to where as if I used the INF/driver file for my monitor it would increase the monitors life ..... again YMMV.......
hope this helps
