The Widescreen Thread

[Zam]

Hahahahah!

Excellent!
So when it comes out for mac, my 1680x1050 will look O-so sexy..

[Alec]

You'll need a pretty powerful machine. With my last gen mac book pro, (ATI X1600) I can run 1680x1050 generally alright with framebuffer effects off. When there's a lot of alpha blending going on (like big particles covering large portions of the screen) I get some chugging.

With frame buffer effects on at that res, things get slooow. :]

[durrem]

This is good news.   Widescreen support would be a requirement to getting the game on PSN or Xbox   (16:9 in particular)

[ryos]

Hmm...I have a current-gen MBP (Nvidia 8600M GT), so...not much hope for native rez.

For me, the important thing is not necessarily running at native resolution, but *no stretching*. So, this is fantastic news either way. Great work!

[Alec]

Hmm...I have a current-gen MBP (Nvidia 8600M GT), so...not much hope for native rez.

Well, that should be better than mine, right? And what is your native res?

[ryos]

Hmm...I have a current-gen MBP (Nvidia 8600M GT), so...not much hope for native rez.

Well, that should be better than mine, right? And what is your native res?

Native on the lappy is 1440x900, but I also have a 20" LCD plugged in most of the time that I use as my primary display, and it runs at 1680x1050.

I've played a bit of the demo under Boot Camp, and with the framebuffer effects on the game slowed down quite a bit in places. This wasn't at native rez--I don't remember what I set it to, honestly. :|

[Alec]

working on a new config screen

enumerates resolutions

[PiscesToAquaria]

Oh, so you went ahead and it full screen.  That was quick!  I thought you would have more problems with the radical shape change.  I guess since the game display scales in and out, you can keep the sides from extending out too far fairly easily in all cases.

I assume you'll be supporting both 16:10 and 16:9.  I actually use a small HDTV as a monitor (16:9).  1366x768 native res on the panel, with 1360x768 PC resolution (multiples of 8, drops 3 pixels on each side).  These are becoming fairly common, and they all seem to support "VGA" input anymore.  This is also one resolution a lot of Xbox 360 owners clamored for, in order to get native res on their HDTVs through the 360's VGA cable.

[Alec]

Derek's going to edit the maps to fix the edges.

16:9 and 16:10 should work. Right now 1.25:1 is broken.

[PiscesToAquaria]

Good God, man.  When do you sleep? 

5:4 is broken (like 1280x1024)?  I wouldn't think going the other way would present problems.  That's odd.  Eh, who cares about 5:4?   

Wonderful work.  Thanks!

[Alec]

Eh well its shrinking stuff and I guess it doesn't know how to handle it properly for all cases yet. I'll look into it at some point.

[Lim-Dul]

Well - 5:4 is actually the only thing I care about - just like most LCD users with non-widescreen monitors. =)

[Drift]

this is awsome! I assume you've tried to make aquaria scale to any res more then fix widescreen specifically? Cause you do have that insanely wide pic on the first page

I really wanna try this, got myself a HD3870, so I'm hoping to run it at 1680*1050 without lag

[shinygerbil]

Score one more for 1.25:1 here.

o/\o

[IceD]

I think so 

Great job Alec! This looks fantastic and in moments like those I wish I'd had a wide-screen HD supporting lcd monitor  (got a card that supports the Pure video HD, but don't have a monitor and waits for dx10 for xp, dangit >O).