Absolutely, you can force 4:3 aspect ratio and get the nearly square screen. (I can do this in my geforce video card control panel, it isn't windowed it's just forcing 4:3 aspect.)


BUT: The higher the native resolution of the monitor the worse a lower resolution looks, even at the 4:3 scale.
Ever see a high def widescreen tv recieving an analog feed? Utterly horrible.

Ok, I guess my next naive question is, if you run it windowed, with a black wallpaper, will the overall size of the window be the same as someone with a 19" monitor at 1280*1024 ? And the image quality would be better? Next question (and I am not trying to be a smart ass here :)) what do other games look like on your 24" freaking huge montior? (Ok, that freaking huge part was uncalled for, but I'm jealous). How do they accomodate the theater size montiors?

I guess it comes down to running it windowed, or skipping it.

That's an understatement.

Even little 15" 4:3 LCDs use a native resolution of 1280x1024. You'd have to find a 13" 4:3 LCD to support an XGA natively.

The challenge some may also encounter is this: although you can cancel scaling via your driver settings, some LCDs will override this and rescale it across the entire screen again. The only way around this is if the game supports windowed mode, and unfortunately many do not.

My older games pretty much all support my 1680x1050 native resolution (22 inch monitor) and I run them at 4:3 aspect ratio. They run fullscreen top to bottom with some wasted area on the sides. They look fine, if they run at that resolution....at 800x600 or 1024x768 pretty crappy.

Ok, I didn't realize this. Of course, you are talking to a guy who has been using a 17" monitor from Wal-mart for 6 years... I just bought the 19" LCD a few weeks ago. Honestly, I think SH4 looks brilliant. I guess maybe it doesn't on 24" montiors. Are other games like Halflife 2 and Age of Empires 3 able to run and look good on those montiors?

You could always by my 17" for SH4... cheap! :yep:

LOL :rotfl: It's ok, I'm not offended.

Most current games support 1920x1200 resolution natively in fullscreen mode. Of course it takes a pretty hot graphics card to run a game at this resolution but most games don't prevent you from doing this if you've got the setup for it.

You know, running windowed is actually the best suggestion I've heard yet. I might actually be willing to give that a try, but it's hard to imagine being satisfied with it. It's been many years since I've run a game windowed.

Well, I can imagine it's not the best solution. :oops: It seems each Silent Hunter game has been a little behind the curve on resolution. SH2 ran at 800x600, in early 2002. We had some clever guys make a conversion kit to get it up to 1024x768x32. Are you telling me 1024*768 res is dated? :rotfl:

I can't speak for AoE as that's one strategy title I don't own, though HL2 looks fantastic, as it supports 1920x1200 (the native resolutions on 24" LCDs).

lol - no doubt. :D

already a nice dimension. it's sort of weird to run the game in 1024x768, i would guess. :hmm:

Do you ATI owners have this option in your settings? It is not windowed, it runs fullscreen but forces the aspect ratio.?? I use it if a game doesn't support widescreen. Looks fine if my native rez is supported.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/RickC/aspect.jpg

1024x768 was a respectable resolution when first released, but it just doesn't hold the same awe factor seventeen years later. ;)

@ RickC Sniper, yes we do. The option is referred to as "centered timings."

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...untitled-3.jpg

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GOOD! :)

hu, flintlock is still running the old (and much more slooooower) control center. :lol:

It's the most recent CCC released with the latest 7.2 Catalyst drivers. Perhaps you're confused by the skin?

really sure? i thought the new one is smaller and slimmer. :hmm:

That's quite possible.

I simply changed the skin from the default. I like this new CCC because it seems to work a lot faster then the previous one -- even loads super quick now too. If you have the latest CCC, open it up and under preferences change the default skin to CATALYST_SteelBlue and you should see the same as I posted above.

:up:

oh ok, that's it! :yep:

IT DOES NOT WORK ON AN ATI CARD.

IT IS AN ENGINE ISSUE...NOT A VIDEOCARD ISSUE.

How many times do I have to repeat myself?

I'm thinking of just changing my signature to information about FSAA in SHIV not working with ATI cards either. LOL

Ug...
I tryed really hard.. I dumped it to 1600x900.. I ran it in a window.. everything, I really tryed to overlook this but after 3h's I have a fckign splitting headack, its a PAIN IN THE ASS to deal with anything from a distance because its nothing but a mess of jaggedness... what cluster Fck of a moron would EVER think that faking high rez's is a good idea?? christ....if you even suggested that where I work you would be shot on the spot, twice, in the head, then burned and your remains mixed with salt and set on fire..


For the poster above, they are just in denial, they belive we are all full of it and missing a simple check box, tunes will change once more pepople have it, Ive already got the nylon hangmans noose ready!