Windowed mode - cheap way to avoid stretching?

jsynnott · Post by **jsynnott** » 02 Aug 2006, 12:51

Hi all,
would it be a feasible idea to run a non-widescreen game in windowed mode to avoid stretching? Would this give a big performance hit? I was thinking for example Battlefield 2.
Thanks.

Post by **The_cranky_hermit** » 03 Aug 2006, 04:38

I think it would be a lot more feasible to have your video card do aspect scaling.

jsynnott · Post by **jsynnott** » 03 Aug 2006, 19:19

Indeed that would be the perfect solution, but unfortunately ATi cards, while more powerful and cheaper than nVidia cards, dont support aspect scaling :(

Microtia · Post by **Microtia** » 03 Aug 2006, 19:23

The biggest problem to that would be that fewer and fewer games even support windowed modes.

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