The Widescreen Thread

[GrimDanfango]

There seems to be a general feeling that the higher resolutions are going to be horrendously laggy with frame-buffer effect.
Thought I'd just relate my experience - I'm running at 1600x1200 on a (decidedly last-gen) x1900xtx... and it flies along with all the effects on.  110% perfectly smooth.
Looking forward to getting the full 1920x1200 up on my widescreen :-)

Fantastic game by the way... between you guys and Moonpod, the soul of PC gaming might just be saved :-P

[Alec]

Fantastic game by the way... between you guys and Moonpod, the soul of PC gaming might just be saved :-P

Fixed some cursor problems for > 4:3 resolutions. (16:10, 16:9)


For < 4:3 (i.e. 5:4), new solution = expand vertically, then add black boxes. Works great, even for 1:1 resolutions...

[Hiro]

Man, that looks so cool. (and that insane pic on the front page made me lol!)

When can we expect to be able to play with that?

[Alphasoldier]

Progress is going fast, is this also being published with the update that comes out with the Mac version we get in a few months, or you think this will be out sooner?

[Alec]

I think the best bet is to make a bunch of changes now, get them tested with the mac beta testers, and then release the 1.1.0 patch and the mac version around the same time.

[Hiro]

Mmk, sounds like a good plan. A few months then? Thats decent. I'll schedual my replay of the game for then...in full widescreen glory.

[Tahnit]

WOOT!.

This is what ive been waiting for. As soon as that patch comes out you'll have my 30$.

[Hiro]

I just had a thought, what if someone was to play fullscreen with a really high aspect ratio, wouldn't it be possible to show the whole map and exploit or something?
Although I assume you've already thought of that and put something in to stop it...

[Alec]

I think we're going to have the max ratio be 16:9, and the min ratio 1:1.

Things tend to break down at stuff beyond that point anyways.

[Tahnit]

Why 16:9? Most widescreen monitors are 16:10. Oh well ill just run with the bars i guess. Still widescreen is better

[Gnerma]

16:9 is "higher" than 16:10 in the way Alec phrased that sentence. Think of it like this, 16:9 is as wide or rectangular as will be allowed and 1:1 is as narrow or square as will be allowed. This is only a bummer to dual display or triple head to go users because they use super wide resolutions. For the other 99.99% of the world, 4:3, 5:4, 16:10 and 16:9 are the only ratios that matter and they will all be supported.

[Hiro]

Ah, good idea. 

[PiscesToAquaria]

Yes, 16:9 is wider than 16:10, so they're both covered.  The reason to support both is that an increasing number of people (myself included) are using an LCD HDTV as a PC monitor.  The VGA input is becoming standard on these, with native resolutions ranging from 1280x720 to 1920x1080.

[Molbork]

I've been visiting these forums waiting for this widescreen patch to hit,  so I could buy this game. 

I see the options screen with different resolutions and sometimes a single drop down box for the ratios of 1:1 to 16:9 can be quite confusing.  Valve uses 2 drop down boxes one for which ratio your monitor is(default 4:3) and than another for that ratio's supported resolutions.

Thanks for the hard work can't wait to play! I've been itching for 2 months thankfully this gaming season has filled this void.

[DSProgrammer]

You should get the game now anyways   I played the entire game on my widescreen TV, at 1366x768 (you can edit a file to get any resolution you want).  Yeah, it was stretched a bit, but it still looked amazing.