Meant to be played in widescreen.

[Yoram777]

ETW is definitely meant to be played in widescreen.
First there where the problems with a lot of non widescreen resolutions.

But I've just bought myself a new monitor
It's a Samsung SyncMaster T200, my old one was a BenQ FP767.
My new monitor is widescreen, and I have to say..
the ETW experience is sooooooo much better now!, i can't believe how much better the experience is compared to how it was on my old monitor.

So yes ETW is definitely meant to be played in widescreen.

.. well that's pretty much all I wanted to say ..

[Arksa]

Well I wouldn't know since I've had widescreen for like 4 years and can't remember what was it like without it

[Pink Beard]

lol; thanks for sharing this with us!



I like this one

[Yoram777]

Well I wouldn't know since I've had widescreen for like 4 years and can't remember what was it like without it

My monitor was basically the only thing about my pc I hadn't updated/replaced in years so it was about time.

Anyway for most games It doesn't make THAT much of a difference for the experience but for ETW it definitely makes a BIG difference, I'm very happy with this.. lol

[UniQ]

Once you go widescreen you never go back

[GaMMwl]

Iv'e been playing with widescreen resolutions all the time having no technical problems- besides the ones that everybody exsperiences. How exactly does it run different? Was problems like ctd's tied to normal resolutions??

[Yoram777]

Iv'e been playing with widescreen resolutions all the time having no technical problems- besides the ones that everybody exsperiences. How exactly does it run different? Was problems like ctd's tied to normal resolutions??

No there were problems with for example the text, it became so ridiculously small it was almost impossible to read...

[daawgees]

No there were problems with for example the text, it became so ridiculously small it was almost impossible to read...

I'm playing on widescreen monitor (laptop, native res: 1920 x 1200 ) and I experience the microscopic text as well. So I think it's a bug that will be fixed with a patch.

[Yoram777]

I'm playing on widescreen monitor (laptop, native res: 1920 x 1200 ) and I experience the microscopic text as well. So I think it's a bug that will be fixed with a patch.

It was a bug, they said they fixed it with the first patch that was already released. They only said it happens with certain resolutions.

[daawgees]

It was a bug, they said they fixed it with the first patch that was already released. They only said it happens with certain resolutions.

ARe they going to fix it again...so folks who are able to can play it on 1920 x 1200?

[EmperorJulian]

For a time I was forced to use a 15 inch LCD VGA display at 1024x768, the text was definitely small and distorted. Once I got my 19 inch monitor back, at a 5:4 Aspect Ratio (1280x1024) things are alot clearer. It's not like with the Xbox360 in which even with a 25 inch TV set the text looks tiny and unreadable. Maybe ETW is meant for the widescreen experience, but I've seen plenty of situations in which the penalties for NOT going 16:9 are much much worse too.

[Chaoticfist]

How do you guys find playing games like left for dead or other shooter games like call of duty or battlefield series on wide screens?

I play on a 20 inch full screen that is pretty good, and my computer can handle most games on ultra (even new games) accept Empire total war which the game wont let me choose any higher than medium.

I am thinking its my 2 gb of ram, i think this summer when is go back to working i will upgrade it to 4.

I want to get a wide screen i am just worried how it will look on shooter games i play mentioned above

[murat can]

Battlefield 2 doesnt have widescreen resolution it sucks.. i got used to it though..

[Yoram777]

How do you guys find playing games like left for dead or other shooter games like call of duty or battlefield series on wide screens?

I play on a 20 inch full screen that is pretty good, and my computer can handle most games on ultra (even new games) accept Empire total war which the game wont let me choose any higher than medium.

I am thinking its my 2 gb of ram, i think this summer when is go back to working i will upgrade it to 4.

I want to get a wide screen i am just worried how it will look on shooter games i play mentioned above

I know it works great for Left 4 dead since I played it at a friends place a couple of times and he uses the same monitor I just bought.

Shooters look nice on widescreen "IF" they support it that is...
But pretty much all new games support it, it's only slightly older games like BF2 that murat can mentioned that often don't support it.

Race games like GRID also look awesome in widescreen.

[Frost, colonel]

I much prefer my 22" Widescreen LCD over my old square CRT. In many ways as important to make a game look great as a decent Graphics card is. Any game like ETW with long battlion formations really suit a Widescreen.

[HomelessDepot]

The problem is when a developer just lops off the top and bottom and calls it widescreen - but there's actually less real estate than on a regular monitor!

-HD

[sgt_melin]

But how will the fps be compered to a ordniary 19"...Im thinking of buy me a widescreen 22" monitor, will the game be more hard to run or are it mutch diffrent at all in the fps?

[spa-rood]

Not to long ago I still was playing on a large 17 inch CRT screen...

Got the exact same Samsung T200 now, it owns

[Yoram777]

But how will the fps be compered to a ordniary 19"...Im thinking of buy me a widescreen 22" monitor, will the game be more hard to run or are it mutch diffrent at all in the fps?

actually, I haven't noticed any difference in fps, so no problems there.

Not to long ago I still was playing on a large 17 inch CRT screen...

Got the exact same Samsung T200 now, it owns

woohoo it sure does!, a very pretty design too

[Chlodwig I.]

24" 1920x1200