I had to play with my settings a bit to get things to look right. If I recall, you should be able to find a 8:5 ratio within your screen resolution choices. These ratios are listed with the resolutions. One of these should work for you. Also, after changing the resolutions, you must exit and restart the game for the setting to take effect.

Is there any hope of getting it to play nice with the Matrox Digital TH2GO? :cool:

You are right Frogman, I've tryed one of those 8:5 resolution and it looks fine now. with the 16:9 it was looking stretched.
Thanks!

I don't know if that's possible, but I was wondering if it is possible to use two monitors at least. Anybody tryed?

With SH4 you should get no distortion with a widescreen if you run it in it's native resolution.

For a 22 inch widescreen that resolution is 1680x1050.
That is what I have and SH4 looks great on it....distortion free. If you get a larger screen the native resolution will go up so make sure your video card can handle that demand.

LCDs just do not look right run on a resolution that is not their "native" resolution. That is when you can get stretching or distortion.

Currently running a Hannspree 28inch monitor. works for me.

I got the Matrox for Christmas, and all I can say is Wow!

SH4 runs at 3840 X 1024, but the interface goes off the top and bottom of the screen, so it's unusable. There may be a way to go in and edit the menu.ini to reposition everything, but I cut it back to 2560 x 1024 and it fits on the left and center screens without running off the top and bottom. The only problem is that the bezel is right in the center of your view which is why three screens is much better. :|\\

I picked up a DVI cable yesterday to use on my new 24" monitor. Man does it look stunning. I'm quite suprised at the difference between using VGA vs DVI. The DVI picture clarity and color is much superior.

With your DVI cable there is no need for analog/digital conversion, so you will see an increase in performance. And don't forget to change your Brightness and contrast, LCD is way different then CRT for settings.

My current settings
Brightness 35%
Digital Vibrance 36% - (live video)
Contrast 75%

The blacks are deep and the colors are really sharp. Of course to each there own.

I just splurged and bought a new 24" widescreen monitor (NEC MultiSync 2490) for a pretty penny. There are websites out there dedicated to widescreen usage for a lot of games but not many sims. Even so, the information may be useful to many here asking these questions.

For those experiencing distortion, you can lock the aspect setting usually within the monitor control panel and if not there, then in your graphics card control software. This will allow you to run the sim at standard 4x3 resolution if forcing widescreen doesn't work. It's called "pillerboxing" and you end up with a dark band on the left and right side of the screen.

I've only had my new monitor for a week and still getting used to it. Some software has native support while others need the INI tweaked (DOOM3 is a good example). You should visit the website and get educated on the various ways software deals with a widescreen monitor. They also have a game tweaking database by the way.

The website is "widescreengamingforum". Google for the link.