1440x900

[Humate]

I bought a belinea 19" wide for my sister/her boyfriend for xmas. I was just wondering what resolution is best to use when a game doesnt support 1440x900? Seems to me hardly any games (ie the 3 i have tried; prey, company of heros and quake4) support this res of the 19" wide. So what resolution should be used when its not available?

cheers

Drink and be merry.

 

[Rroff]

prey and quake 4 will support widescreen - but you will have to manually set the display properties r_customwidth 1440, r_customheight 900, r_mode -1 in the console/config and for best results calculate the correct fov...

company of heros I don't know enough about...

unfortunatly quite a few games don't support widescreen - if your lucky you can lock 1:1 pixel aspect and run the game with borders at say 1152x864.

 

[Zogger]

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com

It says CoH should support widescreen natively and fully. It even has the gold symbol thingy which means it does it perfectly. Often (eg in source games) you will have to select the 16:10 ratio from a separate drop down before selecting the resolution - maybe the same in CoH?)

Since I've got this widescreen every game I've wanted to play has been perfectly capable of doing it. The only one I've had to manually change is ut2k4, which is a simple ini change. Prey and Quake4 have Native widescreen with a (official) patch, according to the above website (not tried prey on this monitor yet...)

 

[n1kunj]

Like everybody else said, COH supports 1440*900 natively, you're probably just not looking hard enough

And if the game doesn't support widescreen there will almost certainly be a hack to get it working on www.widescreengamingforum.com, like Zogger said, which is usually just editing your options file which takes less than a minute.

 

[Humate]

ok thanks very much

i couldnt see 1440x900 in the options for COH on my dell 2407 but perhaps it hides such resolutions (i had already wrapped the belinea by then).