New Monitor - Page 3

polobunny · October 22nd, 2006

Most of today's games will support widescreen, but for some older games you might want to check over at widescreengaming.com for patches or handy tricks to force them into widescreen.
You'll be amazed though, your field of vision in first person shooters will be closer to normal (not the crappy and incredibly small 90 degree people got used too) and Lara butt-- the wonderful nature in Tomb Raider Legend will make you drool.

Panda Man · October 22nd, 2006

Battlefield 2 never natively supported widescreen. There was a trick to forcing it into widescreen though.

I wonder if they ever added it in a patch.....

onebxr · October 23rd, 2006

Thanks guys for all the help. GVBlake, thanks for the try, I hte when that happens, but it usually happens to me on something really important and work intensive. Thanks for trying tho.
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**drew and not u** · October 23rd, 2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by Panda Man

Battlefield 2 never natively supported sidescreen. There was a trick to forcing it into widescreen though.

I wonder if the ever added it in a patch.....

Actually it did, just not hig res, I believe it was 13somethingXsomething else, it was crap, but it was there.

polobunny · October 23rd, 2006

Yep, BF2 supports WXGA natively but nothing over it.

Panda Man · October 23rd, 2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by drew and not u

Actually it did, just not hig res, I believe it was 13somethingXsomething else, it was crap, but it was there.

Hah. Call the grammar police, I was drunk when posting that =0

If anyone cares, on the BF2 shortcut, right click > Properties, and add the following to the end of the target:

Code:

+szx 1920 +szy 1200

Change the 1920 and 1200 to what reso you want. This only stretches it btw, it won't look pretty. The end result would be:

Code:

"%Battlefield2root%\BF2.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1920 +szy 1200

Where %Battlefield2root% is where you installed BF2.

onebxr · October 24th, 2006

so with this new monitor am I gonna see reduced framerates?
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polobunny · October 24th, 2006

If you use Vsync and a refresh rate of 60Hz and you were using Vsync with a higher refresh rate, yes.
However, one should always play games with Vsync and 60 FPS is what most *new* games are capped at anyway for different reasons.

**gvblake22** · October 24th, 2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by onebxr

so with this new monitor am I gonna see reduced framerates?
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Well, moving from 1280x1024 to 1680x1050 is very possibly going to lower your framerates because there are more pixels for your video card to render. But it's not a HUGE jump in resolution, so you probably won't notice much of a change. Unless you were already hovering the 30fps mark with your 19" screen, then you might see games dip into the low 20fps range more often than you did before; especially if you run AA and AF.

onebxr · October 25th, 2006

Just got my new monitor hooked up! Holy crap this is nice. There is so much real estate on this thing. As far as I can tell I have only lost a couple of FPS in CSS. I love this thing, and I dont think I have any dead pixels either. Hooray widescreen. ha
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October 22nd, 2006	#22
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October 23rd, 2006	#23
onebxr resident headbanger Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Frisco, TX Posts: 1,156 Blog Entries: 3	Thanks guys for all the help. GVBlake, thanks for the try, I hte when that happens, but it usually happens to me on something really important and work intensive. Thanks for trying tho. -1 I would rather read a NewEgg review than a [H] review

October 24th, 2006	#27
onebxr resident headbanger Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Frisco, TX Posts: 1,156 Blog Entries: 3	so with this new monitor am I gonna see reduced framerates? -1 I would rather read a NewEgg review than a [H] review

October 25th, 2006	#30
onebxr resident headbanger Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Frisco, TX Posts: 1,156 Blog Entries: 3	Just got my new monitor hooked up! Holy crap this is nice. There is so much real estate on this thing. As far as I can tell I have only lost a couple of FPS in CSS. I love this thing, and I dont think I have any dead pixels either. Hooray widescreen. ha -1 I would rather read a NewEgg review than a [H] review

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October 22nd, 2006	#21
polobunny T-Rex Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 4,605 Blog Entries: 6	Most of today's games will support widescreen, but for some older games you might want to check over at widescreengaming.com for patches or handy tricks to force them into widescreen. You'll be amazed though, your field of vision in first person shooters will be closer to normal (not the crappy and incredibly small 90 degree people got used too) and Lara butt-- the wonderful nature in Tomb Raider Legend will make you drool.