Widescreen + games = widescreen gaming. Does it work?

[meglamaniac]

I'm looking at getting a single widescreen panel to replace my two 17" panels. However, I'm worried about the state of games on widescreen monitors. What experiences have you guys had? Do many games fail? Do they tend to just get stretched (bad) or just leave black bars at the side of the screen (good)?

Thanks!

 

[meglamaniac]

The other thing I just realised is that the nVidia control panel has the option to use the graphics card for scaling instead of the monitor. That way you can specify exactly what you want to happen, at the expense of dropping a couple of frames a second off the framerate from the extra overhead of scaling the image.

Kinda answered my own question there I guess