World of Warcraft added widescreen support in 1.10 patch!

GunstarSilver · Post by **GunstarSilver** » 29 Mar 2006, 08:26

Included in general additions:

Added support for widescreen video resolutions.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/patchnotes.html

Anyone know more about this?

Post by **Paddy the Wak** » 29 Mar 2006, 08:34

That's what I said here ... :wink: :P
http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1126

CodE-E · Post by **CodE-E** » 29 Mar 2006, 16:36

Does "widescreen video resolutions" mean HDTV resolutions? Cause 16:10 widescreen resolutions have been supported since the beta years ago.

royal · Post by **royal** » 29 Mar 2006, 18:27

Does "widescreen video resolutions" mean HDTV resolutions? Cause 16:10 widescreen resolutions have been supported since the beta years ago.

I was wondering the same myself. WoW has supported 1680x1050 for a long time.

GunstarSilver · Post by **GunstarSilver** » 30 Mar 2006, 11:06

Apologies Paddy,

Had a brief scan through that post and missed your post.

Post by **Paddy the Wak** » 30 Mar 2006, 11:37

No worries ... 8)

It's a shame it doesn't seem to making any difference.

CodE-E · Post by **CodE-E** » 30 Mar 2006, 12:50

It doesn't make any difference because it was always working in the first place. :)

GunstarSilver · Post by **GunstarSilver** » 31 Mar 2006, 12:36

I can't seem to find anyting over in the official forum yet, I had the feeling that they were perhaps supporting additional resolutions or something, or ironed out bugs with certin graphics cards/drivers. There is no easy way to search "widescreen" over on that forum anyway.

Post by **skipclarke** » 02 Apr 2006, 23:57

It doesn't make any difference because it was always working in the first place. :)

Someone posted a while back, with screens to back up his claim, that WoW didn't really implement widescreen in a proper way. I think he said that the FOV was unchanged and that the view was stretched horizontally?

Not sure if this was the case, since I cancelled my wow account ages ago. Perhaps someone could look into this further?

CodE-E · Post by **CodE-E** » 03 Apr 2006, 11:33

Strech, it's bulls***. The FoV always has been fine. It's a bit hard to see in screenshots because when you switch from 4:3 to 16:10 the player camera zooms in a tiny bit. You can zoom back a bit again to make it obvious that the FoV's changed.

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