Stupid Q's...What happens when you play non-widescreen games on a widescreen monitor?

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Hi all

was thinking of getting a dell 2407 WS monitor but wondered what happens to all those games that do not support widescreen resolutions??

I know there are ini. hacks etc but for some games i would be happy to play at 1600x1200 windowed..

Will the panel stratch these 4:3 resolutions to fit the screen.......in which case everything will look fat!!
 
Some monitors do stretch it, the ones you'd want to look for are ones that can do 1:1 pixel mapping (then they run the game with black borders).I *think* the Dell can do it.
 
The Dell 2407FPW can do 1:1 pixel mapping with official nVidia drivers and Omega ATI ones. Possibly also through ATI Catalyst Control Centre now.
 
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mda96bjh said:
Hi all

was thinking of getting a dell 2407 WS monitor but wondered what happens to all those games that do not support widescreen resolutions??

I know there are ini. hacks etc but for some games i would be happy to play at 1600x1200 windowed..

Will the panel stratch these 4:3 resolutions to fit the screen.......in which case everything will look fat!!
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no most monitors will let you play with black bits and play 1600 x 1200 or whatever. I know for a fact the Dell does. as does my NEC 20WGX2
 
My Philips can stretch 4:3 to "fullscreen" or stretch vertically but keep the aspect. I can't notice any loss in picture quality in gaming, and I guess it's less of a performance hit than using drivers to scale 4:3 to 16:10
 
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