Games on LCD Wide Screen

[DayDreamer]

Hi, I just got an LCD Wide Screen. It's nice, video, images, and games look much better, but the games I'm playing not supporting Wide Screen res. (UT2K4 and FEAR). When I watch TV or video files (4:3 format) in full screen, it has two black bars on the left and the right. Is there anyway that I can set it like that when I play games so it won't be fatter? Thanks!

[p0tter]

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com

[Soulburner]

You are looking for a "Native" option. What monitor do you have?

Not all of them can do this, but my Sceptre can do either:

Full - Stretch to fill
Native - Leaves pixels at 1:1 ratio on the screen, with black area surrounding

It is done through the OSD menu under "Aspect".

[DayDreamer]

This is what I have: http://www.viewsonic.com/products/desktopdisplays/lcddisplays/xseries/vx2235wm/

[Kobalt]

UT2K4 supports widescreen btw.

[DayDreamer]

UT2K4 does? Are you sure? It's an old game, but still very good though.

[Kobalt]

Yep...I play it all the time.

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php?title=Master_Games_List_-_U

[SteveLord]

Neverwinter Nights 2 supports widescreen @ 1680x1050.

Battlefield2 can, if you edit the shortcut. But its not "official"

Rainbow6 Vegas does NOT...which was a disappointment.

[Rickster_64]

Yep...I play it all the time.

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php?title=Master_Games_List_-_U

Thanks for the linkage I've got a number of games that I play on my E1705 notebook that are stuck @ 1024. I'll have to do some research when I am not at work, LOL.

[lowfat]

even the original UT:GOTY supports widescreen.

[Buffalo2102]

I am playing FEAR in widescreen at the moment. It is selectable in the graphics options and although it says that it is not supported, it works fine for me.

[jbrukardt]

What you're referring to is known as "fixed aspect ratio scaling". Unfortuantely ATI is horrible at it, nvidia drivers (most of them) support it so you dont have to deal with stretched games, but ATI, you're outta luck

[[XC] MarioMaster]

when i set up ut2004 to run on my widescreen, i just went into the system folder and found the config file that stored the resolution and set it to 1440x900 (native rez of my lcd)

[xB0n3s]

I am playing FEAR in widescreen at the moment. It is selectable in the graphics options and although it says that it is not supported, it works fine for me. I'm playing FEAR widescreen too, but after maxing every setting in the game crashed after 2 hours.

[Sparky]

UT2004 and FEAR both support widescreen. I've played both at full widescreen resolutions. Some games you have to select the aspect ratio first to get to the widescreen resolutions, I can't remember if they do or not.

[CedricFP]

Your monitor needs to support 1:1 pixel mapping.

The VX2235wm does not support this feature so you will never be able to not-stretch games that don't support widescreen resolutions.

[ahmad]

when i set up ut2004 to run on my widescreen, i just went into the system folder and found the config file that stored the resolution and set it to 1440x900 (native rez of my lcd)

Don't forget to change your FOV to 100.

[thunderstruck!]

Don't forget to change your FOV to 100.
Why should he do that?

[CedricFP]

Why should he do that?
Sometimes if games don't natively support a widescreen res, but you can set it in a config file or via some sort of hack, the image won't be correct and will be stretched horizontally still... increasing FOV helps that.