foolish question about widescreen monitors

Efour · 12 Jun 2006 at 17:36

Hello,

When playing a game, say Counterstrike source. or Day of defeat source, if i were using a wide screen monitor, would I actually see more of the area to my left and right.

Im not sure if that makes sense, but i dont know how else to put it lol.

Do you gain a bit of viewable area to your imediate FOV or is it just stretched to fill it from 4:3 aspect?

ah i give up

Help .

Zefan · 12 Jun 2006 at 17:38

Stretched.

Otherwise it'd feel WELL weird.

Radiation · 12 Jun 2006 at 17:58

It depends on the game, some do give a bit more viewing but others just stretch, widescreen gaming is well worth it though!

Baddass · 12 Jun 2006 at 18:02

as above, it would depend on the game. If the game supports WS resolution as some do nowadays then you will get a wider FOV. If it doesnt, it would just get stretched

Efour · 12 Jun 2006 at 18:21

Ok and by widescreen resoloutions, you mean the 1440 x 700s or whatever weird things there are.

Brilliant people much appreciated.

Baddass · 12 Jun 2006 at 18:34

yep, 1440 x 900 for a 19", 1680 x 1050 for 20"....this might be interesting to you as well

Yaka · 13 Jun 2006 at 22:46

i think rts games like warcraft 3 show the wideness of widescreen monitors best in fps like hl2/counterstrike i harldy noticed till i ran the dell 2001fp and 2405fpw side by side.

heck just look ak the pic in the gaming section of baddass's article think its civ4 or somat

<Dubz> · 14 Jun 2006 at 03:49

just got my 20 inch WS VX2025 and when i loaded WoW averyone looked short and fat! Quick change of resolution which is supported by default (1680 x 1050) and everyone looks normal again and i've gained a wider POV as all the UI stuff that was on the right of my screen had to be moved across.

toxic · 14 Jun 2006 at 08:22

CSS can be run in true 16:9 or 16:10 with various resolutions on a widescreen monitor and looks great. Most games have started to support widescreen now so it shouldnt be a problem. CSS is one game that looks excellent in WS and it does give you a greater Field Of View than standrd size monitor. I will post a couple of screenshots showing the difference between widescreen and not when I get home later. Once you start gaming in widescreen...you wont go back to standard...thats definite!

ukfive · 14 Jun 2006 at 15:43

just look here

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/screenshots/

MT01XP · 14 Jun 2006 at 19:19

Excuse my ignorance, but on non-widescreen games wouldn't the image 'stretching' ultimately result in a distorted image?

Radiation · 14 Jun 2006 at 21:51

Yeah things will look a bit fat.

cathain · 14 Jun 2006 at 22:14

Playing fps in ws is there a disparity between the movement on the x and y axis if ya know what I mean?

GlasgowTitan · 14 Jun 2006 at 23:10

What about in Battlefield 2. That is really the only game I play and I am thinking about a WS monitor. Does BF2 have widescreen resolutions or will it just stretch the image (not cool). I dont want it stretched, but a larger viewing are would be neat in BF2.

Yaka · 14 Jun 2006 at 23:24

no wide screen res supported but it can be made to play at wide screen res, not perfect but preety damn good

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1030

Fr0dders · 15 Jun 2006 at 00:16

it still stretches the 90degrees FOV thou, so things are stretched

but i can barely tell tbh

GlasgowTitan · 15 Jun 2006 at 00:30

So basically If I change the shortcut to BF2 and I get a widescreen monitor it should be ok?

Yaka · 15 Jun 2006 at 01:11

thefranklin · 15 Jun 2006 at 02:42

BF2 looks amazing the bigger the screen it gets, get a projector!!