Yeah - I tried that for a while, and it did give me enough real estate on the screen to make room for stuff, but I get better performance/quality mix at 1024x768 with AF/FSAA cranked way up than I do at the higher res with lower AF/FSAA, and it's too much strain on my machine to have both cranked way up - plus, I play a lot on my 100" diagonal screen (projectors are wonderful technology :yep: ) and my projector looks/works best at 1024x768 too, so I'm stuck trying to sort this out at that res.

This works BUT if you are using manual targeting and calculating angle on the bow using formula width/heightx100/original aspect ratio, this will get you wrong aob. See how height of the ship differs:

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...0-6-2007_0.jpg

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...-6-2007_19.jpg

Ah yes, very interesting. I never calculated this manually. Well then, for those who play with that degree of realism I guess the non scaled mask is the way, for now.



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O.K. Found the working fix that will get you real aspect ratio and fix this problem:
If you have 1280x1024 resolution:
Change:
[G28 I120]
Name=Background
Type=1030;Static bmp
ItemID=0x28000001
ParentID=0x28000000
Pos=0,0,1024,768
Zone= 0 768 1024 768 1 1 0x28000000 0.5 -0.5 0x28000001 -0.5 0.5 0 0
Color=0xFFFFFFFF
Materials=1
Display=2;Linear
Mat 0=data/menu/gui/layout/tbt_1024.tga
Crop 0=0,0.125,1,0.75
MatFlags=0x9
TexFmt=0x0

To:
[G28 I120]
Name=Background
Type=1030;Static bmp
ItemID=0x28000001
ParentID=0x28000000
Pos=0,0,1152,864
Zone= 0 768 1152 864 1 1 0x28000000 0.5 -0.5 0x28000001 -0.5 0.5 0 0
Color=0xFFFFFFFF
Materials=1
Display=2;Linear
Mat 0=data/menu/gui/layout/tbt_1024.tga
Crop 0=0,0.125,1,0.75
MatFlags=0x9
TexFmt=0x0


1024:768=1.333
1152:864=1.333
1280:1024=1.25 > if you use this one it will stretch your screen.