Slanted HUD, Revealed? --Reasons--Theories--Proof--

(XavienX) #1

Edit: 8:5 and 16:10 is the same, I just got used to calling it 8:5 since Dirty Bomb detects my resolution as a 8:5 ratio and doesn’t say 16:10 in settings. I can only choose a 1920x1200 resolution in 8:5 but it’s not available in 16:10 ratio, dunno why.

Some people saw my screenshots and my gameplay on YouTube and noticed that my old content had slanted HUD. What they had in common was that they are all in 8:5 ratio resolution because I play on a 1920x1200 monitor.
For example:
[spoiler]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/520512150734451317/6D2C2413858C836D92644B7D26C162ADD69742D3/[/spoiler]
[spoiler]No this isn’t self-advertising >.> and FYI, this is a really old gameplay when I was still experimenting with my recording system so there’s a lot of frame drops in case you’re wondering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxNrSDYFT_Q[/spoiler]

Over summer I was kinda bored and decided to probably do some YouTube for fun and noticed that my recordings of 8:5 did not accommodate YouTube’s resolution of full screen nor did it apply to the majority of viewers on their monitors. So everytime I was recording, I would switch to a resolution of 1920x1080, a 16:9 ratio. Just recently, as I closely examined, my videos do not have a slanted HUD (didn’t take any screenshots recently apparently).
[spoiler]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZn1wh-Yejc[/spoiler]

Is this supposed to be a feature or a bug that a ratio of 8:5 has slanted HUD (which is pretty cool) and 16:9 (or 16:10 I never played in that ratio) doesn’t?

@stayfreshshoe I don’t think you know it either? based on your reply in “Best of Dirty Bomb Chat” thread.

(Amerika) #2

So, you’re still playing on a 16:10 monitor (more common use than 8:5) but only recently your videos started looking correct with a 16:9 resolution? Or? I’m not sure if you’re saying you fixed it, that it was fixed by SD at some point or something else like you switching to a 16:9 monitor/game resolution?

(XavienX) #3

Nah, I switched back to 16:10/8:5 whichever one honestly, not much difference just one is bigger. Anyhow, I’m still playing on the 16:10 monitor and a few times I switched back recently but I still had the slanted HUD. However when I returned to 16:9, the text wasn’t slanted anymore. @Amerika So basically it was still there.

(MvMArcher) #4

I’m pretty sure that 8:5 and 16:10 is the same.
Most likely a bug with the extra height in the resolution, I have seen this happen in other games (can’t recall the names at the top of my head).

(SteelMailbox) #5

This slanted HUD thing starts to feel like a conspiracy theory slowly.

(Amerika) #6

[quote=“MvMArcher;142053”]I’m pretty sure that 8:5 and 16:10 is the same.
Most likely a bug with the extra height in the resolution, I have seen this happen in other games (can’t recall the names at the top of my head). [/quote]

They are. 16:10 is simply the common term used because people don’t have to MATH and still know it’s almost the same as the more common 16:9 aspect ratio.

Do you get the same issue with other UE3 games like Bioshock Infinite, Deus Ex: HR or anything else you might have in your library?

(MvMArcher) #7

I play on 16:9, I think it was blacklight that had the problem, I remember there was a lot of talk about it on the forums, before the HUD tweaker was made by Duvel.
Blacklight does run on UE3 so it might be a thing with the engine.
Besides that I kinda wanna say that something like this happened in borderlands, again a UE3 game.

(XavienX) #8

I play on 16:9, I think it was blacklight that had the problem, I remember there was a lot of talk about it on the forums, before the HUD tweaker was made by Duvel.
Blacklight does run on UE3 so it might be a thing with the engine.
Besides that I kinda wanna say that something like this happened in borderlands, again a UE3 game.[/quote]

For me, I don’t think I’ve ever had this issue. Or at least there probably was but I just never payed attention since it doesn’t look visually unappealing in other games.

(Occult) #9

my hud was always like that in cb but i was playing on different settings, no idea what though

[spoiler]http://i.imgur.com/nhi8sU3.jpg[/spoiler]