Please. Widescreen. Please

(]ES[Tyrano) #1

Hello.

I am tired of playing games where I have to hack around files to get widescreen support. I’m tired of dealing with widescreen resolutions, but with distortion due to these hacks.
I shouldn’t have to add flags to my executables to get my widescreen support.

Please.

You guys are awesome, please natively support widescreen displays; we lovers of widescreen shouldn’t be left out in the cold anymore. :frowning:

P.S. If you could squeeze in 16:10 and 16:9 support, and not just one or the other, that would be fantastic.

(Nail) #2

only problem I can think of is it might give widescreen users a fov advantage

(fattakin) #3

ET had widescreen support outta the box, no one complained of fov advantage then!

(Nail) #4

just came into my mind at the moment, never had access to widescreen before, been wondering if being able to use fov 120 on 16:9 might be a better idea

(Ragnar_40k) #5

Mmh, widescreen, ultrawidescreen or multiscreen?

(KAGE) #6

you could see your own arse with that thing.

(Wils) #7

The Doom 3 engine natively supports widescreen aspect rations (with r_aspectratio, funnily enough). I think we need to extend it and hook it into the menus better than D3 and Q4 did, since widescreens are a little more prevalent these days.

(jRAD) #8

Widescreen resolutions should be available both as new r_modes and via the main menu’s interface.

edit Why-oh-why can’t I be jRAD? :frowning:

(Rhoades) #9

Widescreen resolutions should be available both as new r_modes and via the main menu’s interface.

edit Why-oh-why can’t I be jRAD? :([/quote]
screenshots? :smiley:

(Bongoboy) #10

I’m now having to insert more spaces between each word in order to get the text to the edge of the screen.

(ParanoiD) #11

Yeah, widescreen would be perfect in the standard resolutions like 1280x800 as my future laptop will have :P. Et has but i guess nobody uses it as its a weird resolution (not standard) I never seen a monitor having the ET widescreen native supported. Dont even know its resolution…

(SCDS_reyalP) #12

Well, widescreen is nice, but what would be really fantastic is if each frame was hand-rendered by buxom maidens with oils on canvas.

(Fab) #13

It would add a certain something to the game.

(Gringo) #14

And a certain somethin to ur pants!

(John_Thunder) #15

[sarcasm]
thats why my dell 21" rotates

man this is sweet movies arent tall and skinny anymore
[/sarcasm]

great news, WS will be the norm soon enough anyways :slight_smile:

(viralDNA) #16

SD you guys are the best. I’ve been looking forward to ETQW for a long time. You and id are what developers should be. EA/Dice still refuses to support widescreen.

I kid you not, I was going to buy two copies of ETQW when it came out, with one being for WolfET since I played that so much. I think I might buy another just to support SD. Of course I’m getting it for my friends etc.

Hehe I think I have 4 or so copies of Q3…One for my mac…one for my pc, TA, q3 gold and a second gold for the heck of it…