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Title: Widescreen monitor blues
Post by: LivetoDie on May 21, 2006, 12:26:15 PM

Just bought a Viewsonic VX2025vm 20.1" widescreen 16x9 aspect ratio LCD. Optimum resolution is 1650x1050 at 60hz.
How do I make the game look "right" in the widescreen format?
I've messed around with the video settings using every combination possible and still get the stretched version when the game runs.
38ruk suggested changing the video8.cfg settings. I attempted that using notepad with no luck, perhaps I didn't do that right.
Can anyone help?
Thank you :)

Title: Widescreen monitor looks funky
Post by: 38ruk on May 21, 2006, 11:28:37 PM

I replied in the other post , im betting your video card doesnt support that res. I posted the directions to check which modes it does support in the other thread .  38

Title: Widescreen monitor looks funky
Post by: LivetoDie on May 22, 2006, 08:12:28 AM

Thanks 38ruk,I'll check it. It is almost 4 years old, ancient these days!

Title: Widescreen monitor looks funky
Post by: OOZ662 on May 23, 2006, 05:12:42 PM

You can copy/paste your video8.cfg file here. I'll edit it correctly and post it. It's not that hard, even though they misspelled a bunch of stuff. ;)

Title: Widescreen monitor looks funky
Post by: LivetoDie on May 23, 2006, 08:21:40 PM

I opened it with Notepad:

132352,VideoVersion
1280,Width
960,Height
32,ColorDebth
1,DeviceCnt
DVRADEON 9500 PRO / 9700
0,MaxFPS
0,PixelShaders
0,VertexShaders
1024,MaxTexSize
2286,OptionFlags
1.46,Gamma

Thank you OOZ I sure hope this works, even though I've become used to the stretched version somewhat. I don't think my shooting % would reflect that though as the angles are a bit skewed!

Title: Widescreen monitor looks funky
Post by: OOZ662 on May 23, 2006, 10:40:08 PM

132352,VideoVersion
1650,Width
1050,Height
32,ColorDebth
1,DeviceCnt
DVRADEON 9500 PRO / 9700
0,MaxFPS
0,PixelShaders
0,VertexShaders
1024,MaxTexSize
2286,OptionFlags
1.50,Gamma

I'd check that resolution to make sure...3:2 doesn't seem like a widescreen resolution...I out of it right now though, I'm probably wrong.

Title: Widescreen monitor looks funky
Post by: Kermit de frog on May 24, 2006, 01:20:39 AM

1650x1050 is not a 16x9 resolution.

OOz, you're right, it's a 3x2 resolution.

Some widescreen monitors are made like that though.

Title: Widescreen monitor looks funky
Post by: LivetoDie on May 24, 2006, 08:27:35 AM

After checking again the actual optimum resolution for my monitor is 1680x1050 , not 1650x1050. My goof.
So should I just change the width and height,save it to notepad,and put it back into the settings file?
Thanks again for the help.

Title: Widescreen monitor looks funky
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on May 24, 2006, 11:03:05 AM

Maybe you need to set a custom resolution to your display card first with multires for example.

Title: Widescreen monitor looks funky
Post by: DAVENRINO on May 24, 2006, 12:42:34 PM

Quote

Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
Maybe you need to set a custom resolution to your display card first with multires for example.

Another option.  The later drivers from ATI and Nvidia allow you to do this without MultiRes.

Title: Widescreen monitor looks funky
Post by: LivetoDie on May 24, 2006, 10:20:51 PM

Finally figured it out. When I would save the notepad file , after resetting the video8 file to 1680x1050 ,it didn't have the .cfg extension attached to it. I don't know why so I "saved as" and typed in the .cfg and presto!
And does it look good! Everything is proportioned correctly now and the screen is full.
Thanks to all for the help and advice,much appreciated.