Widescreen Gaming Forum

Ill keep it short

Last thursday i went out and bought this monitor form Best Buy

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9218786&st=Hannspree+%40)&lp=2&type=product&cp=1&id=1218061081362

I thought it would be good for gaming but the resolution isn't that good and my games are very stretched, especially Medieval 2 total war. I believe this is because of the extreme 16:9 Wide screen ratio.

I am planning on returning this to best buy on Monday and pick up this 16:10
Gateway monitor while it is on sale.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8894093&type=product&id=1211587387624

What do you guys think?



Thank you for reading this and will appreciate any reply

16:10 is more standard on a PC, but most games that support 16:10 would also support 16:9.

The page you linked to doesn't load up for me... what is the native resolution of the monitor you bought? Native resolution is the most important thing as you will want to play all your games at that res.

If your games are stretched, it's probably because you're using the wrong resolution. Using a 4:3 resolution on a 16:9 screen = much stretching. Use 1920x1080 instead.

I have a 16:9 screen and I've never had an unfixable problem with games not supporting the ratio correctly. And I play everything from dosbox emulated oldies through Crysis.

Assuming that a game is legitimately stretched (and not a matter of user error), I don't know that the stretching at 16:10 would be any less distracting than 16:9. I mean sure it's less stretched, but it's still stretched.

If you check out the Wiki, and read the detailed reports you'll see that there are solutions to get widescreen resolutions working acceptably on a great number of the games out there.

According to the Wiki, Medievil 2 supports widescreen resolutions fine, so you're probably running a 4:3 resolution as The_cranky_hermit suggests.

The only really notable games (meaning games that people would actually still want to play in my opinion) that either can't be run in widescreen at all or can't be run without stretching are:

Blizzard's games other than WoW (Starcraft, Diablo 1 & 2, Warcraft 1-3)
Monolith's older shooters: NOLF 1 & 2, Tron 2.0
Max Payne 1 & 2