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Need help picking a 21:9 monitor
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Author:  fullyjosh [ 08 Apr 2014, 21:42 ]
Post subject:  Need help picking a 21:9 monitor
So I was looking at getting a 21:9 widescreen monitor but the current resolution is not supported for Starcraft 2 (which makes sense), however I came across this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RMOlDk7jYI[1] and if you can wait until about 1:50 you can see he hits some buttons on his monitor and then it scales the game to that ratio. If you scroll a little further you can see him play and it doesn't look at all distorted. Do all the LG 21:9 support this feature? What's it called? Could anyone recommend a monitor of this ratio that would have a feature similar to this?
I want one of these monitors primarily because they would look beautiful for gaming and am aware there limited support for this resolution so a feature like this might actually cause a noticeable distortion in other games.

Thanks!
Author:  scavvenjahh [ 09 Apr 2014, 09:12 ]
Post subject:  Re: Need help picking a 21:9 monitor
Yes it is distorted... 16:9 stretched to 21:9. The OSD setting is a '1:1 / fullscreen' scaling toggle. It changes the picture's proportions, not the actual resolution or FOV.
Author:  fullyjosh [ 09 Apr 2014, 16:43 ]
Post subject:  Re: Need help picking a 21:9 monitor
scavvenjahh wrote:
Yes it is distorted... 16:9 stretched to 21:9. The OSD setting is a '1:1 / fullscreen' scaling toggle. It changes the picture's proportions, not the actual resolution or FOV.
scavvenjahh wrote:
Yes it is distorted... 16:9 stretched to 21:9. The OSD setting is a '1:1 / fullscreen' scaling toggle. It changes the picture's proportions, not the actual resolution or FOV.



I'm fully aware that it needs to stretch the image and this probably wouldn't look good with most games. I'm not trying to have hardware hack my game settings:p. I believe StarCraft may be the exception as from what I can see it looks fine stretched.
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