21:9 Aspect Ratio PC Games info

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As I have a 7850K APU I want to find out if I can do 1:1 pixel mapping with these LG super wide monitors so I can reduce the image size if I need to (so I'd get black on either side of the image to help with performance.) ?

Is that possible?

And yes... I'm very curious as I'm after a new monitor :)

Hi Scougar!!
 
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I have two 21.9 lg monitors..and have one of them set to 1920 x1080 for firefox and alike ...but the monitor I game on is set to (BF4 /BF3/TITANFALL ) 2560 x1440...if i have it set to 2560 x1080 i get those horrid black bars at the side ...also that resolution in game is not nice to look at for me .
 
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PC devs are getting lazier all the time their CBA to support 21:9 natively is costing them sales @ full price most 21:9 owners I know will not buy a PC game @ full price if it does not support 21:9 natively. The 21:9 modders like HaYDen have had enough it seems as well no new 21:9 mods from him this year just fixes to existing mods.

All the PC devs have to do is either zoom in on the image a little & or adjust their FOV calculator so it looks @ resolution x aspect ratio to display the correct FOV!

If GTA5 does not support 21:9 natively I am probably done with my 21:9 LG forever (I emailed the PC devs for GTA5 back in Sept 2014 to request 21:9 support so they know about it but never reply).

21:9 is a great aspect ratio but at this rate its going to be 10 years before it ever becomes a PC mainstream resolution :(
 
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21:9 is perfect for gaming and for movies.. Its weird that no body thought of this when 16:9 was chosen to be "mainstream". I cannot see a negative thing about 21:9. Wish support and adoptation was better cause its bloody awwsome. Im buying a 16:9 gsync panel soon but only for fast fps games as im still going to enjoy my RPGs on my immersive AOC 2963pm.. god i love IPS.
 
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21:9 is perfect for gaming and for movies.. Its weird that no body thought of this when 16:9 was chosen to be "mainstream".

It's just down to limitations of technology really. 21:9 has been mainstream in the cinema pretty much forever. 4:3 was just a kludge because the CRT technology wasn't there to create a 21:9 TV back in the day. Likewise 16:9 followed on from it to fill the gap between 4:3 and 21:9.

If it had been technologically feasible I'm sure we'd probably have went straight to 21:9 rather than bothering with 16:9 and 4:3!
 
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Yup, games these days are a joke for true 21.9 support, it is amazing how almost all of the much older games work really well yet games from the last year or 2 don't.

I am most likely going to jump to a 27" 1440 screen in the next few months especially if gta 5 doesn't have proper 21.9 support....
 
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DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin - 21:9 support is now fixed by HaYDen but for now you need to set your desktop to 1920x1080 as it only works for windowed mode not full screen mode he has to do more work on that.

http://www.wsgf.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=24098&start=1010

Without people like HaYDen 21:9 would be over before its even started as so many devs are too lazy to implement it. LG, Samsung, Dell etc etc ahould sponsor HaYDen to do these fixes ;)
 
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Ori And The Blind Forest- Flawless widescreen has now fixed this with their excellent addin for 21:9 support.
 
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eve online excel is native at this res :D

Fixed that for ya
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