19" lcd, high contrast, 2ms response ?

froot said:
Like some other posts here, I'd say you should check up on some games sometime. The last 20 or so I had a lookie at all but one had a proper widescreen support. The only one to not really support widescreen was Quake II, I think it was. Supports the widescreen format of 640x480, which is around 450x350 ish?
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Not sure what you trying to say by "I'd say you should check up on some games sometime" but if you follow the link I gave (http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/Essential_Games_List) it gives fixes for almost all games that have problems with widescreens. I think it makes the game have two black stripes down the left and right side of the screen so the games look normal (if the game doesn't do this automatically), but most people say the black lines are not a distraction at all.

In summary, he can play all his games properly AND he can have the advantage of lots of screen area for his graphics design stuff such as photoshop. Thats a win-win situation in my books.
 
Sheepbot said:
Not sure what you trying to say by "I'd say you should check up on some games sometime" but if you follow the link I gave (http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/Essential_Games_List) it gives fixes for almost all games that have problems with widescreens. I think it makes the game have two black stripes down the left and right side of the screen so the games look normal (if the game doesn't do this automatically), but most people say the black lines are not a distraction at all.

In summary, he can play all his games properly AND he can have the advantage of lots of screen area for his graphics design stuff such as photoshop. Thats a win-win situation in my books.
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Yeah all my older games do this, the black bits on either side. It isn't much of a distraction, kinda like having your monitor convert into wide-screen
 
charlie_82 said:
Yeah all my older games do this, the black bits on either side. It isn't much of a distraction, kinda like having your monitor convert into wide-screen
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Most graphic cards (ATI/NVidia) can do this now by setting aspect ration to fixed. Games like Warcraft 3, I use the 4:3 resolution which is 1400x1050 and it centers it with black bars on the side. No stretching and its the same as having a 19" 4:3 monitor.

Also the Tom's forum post was in 2006 :confused: Things have changed a lot since then.
 
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