Widescreen LCD or normal LCD

[AVGWarhawk]

I have seen this stretching crap. The bag arse TV's that are longer than tall do the same thing. It is stupid. The prices you pay for this elongated TV and the picture looks elongated. Makes no sense to me. Go for the square monitor and be happy in my view!

[elite_hunter_sh3]

so the picture stretches. is there a fix for it? can someone modify the dll for screen res so its the widescreen res??

Yes, I run a widescreen on my laptop. Dell's 17 Ultra Wide. It's outstanding! I run at 1920x1200, both desktop and in game. The fix is using the direct display edit. You can find the link on the wiki community manual (here's the direct link)

http://www.communitymanuals.com/shii...lay_Resolution

Make sure you follow the instructions ALL the way through. The first time I was in a hurry and just did the first part, not bothering to read the whole thing (you need to do more if you are running XP) and of course it didn't work until I went back and re-read.

The start up screens and menus are still in their native resolution, but as soon as the game loads it will load in what ever resolution you define in the CFG file.

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I have seen this stretching crap. The bag arse TV's that are longer than tall do the same thing. It is stupid. The prices you pay for this elongated TV and the picture looks elongated. Makes no sense to me. Go for the square monitor and be happy in my view!

There is a lot more to it than just that. I happen to have a widescreen tv and also hate the stretched look. A good WS tv will allow you to set the modes. If my TV see's a widescreen mode, it will switch to that mode. How ever, if it see's a regular tv signal, it will square itself. Has the same effect as watching WS on regular with the black bars, except I end up with black bars on the sides instead of top and bottom Looks like a regular tv just with a MUCH better picture. Works quite well actually. Now, some TV's wont auto switch, but they'll at least have a manual switch.

Sorry, not trying to hijack the thread, just hate seeing something bashed when it's just not being understood. Not jumping out at you AVGWarhawk, only trying to clarify

Ciao

[fredbass]

I have a widescreen LCD and my pic looks fine to me. I've talked about this b4. I really think it depends on the monitor and what kind of adjustments you can make with it, because I don't notice any stretching after I've changed the monitors scale settings.

[elite_hunter_sh3]

lucky me i found a even better monitor for a better price
http://www.benq.ca/products/LCD/?product=594

[andy_311]

I have actually tried to play it on a 42 in plasma tv but it just pixals are playing up so I think my Nvida 660,256MB card is not good enough

[nightdagger]

6600's suck but they should play it alright on a 42 inch tv, even at 1080p HD for SH3.

[MONOLITH]

I play SH3 on a 21" widescreen, with the high res fix mod set at 1680x1050.

There's no stretch. Everything looks beautiful.

And after gaming in big widescreen, I'll never go back to a square monitor.

[jaxa]

Originally Posted by elite_hunter_sh3

lucky me i found a even better monitor for a better price
http://www.benq.ca/products/LCD/?product=594

I use this BenQ. Very fast LCD, one of the fastest you can buy and not expensive. Designed especially for games. Remember that is TN, so angles of view aren't wide.

[elite_hunter_sh3]

i followed everything step by step and it will not work it keeps CTD and i dont know wut to do plz someone help im craving for sh3 and i seriously need to play

[NightCrawler]

If SHIV is supported and have a quard SLI GPX card :P