Widescreen Gaming Forum

There are a few of us on the forum, and I really need your help in testing games as the native resolution of 2560x1600. If you have a 30" panel, and any of the games with a Detailed Report, can you please test it at the native res, so we can update that Detailed Report.

If you have a game that doesn't have a Detailed Report, can you please test at the 2560x1600 resolution, even if you don't have time to write a full Detailed Report.

My contacts at Nvidia have said they will try and help us (no promises mind you) by procuring games that we don't have, and that haven't been tested. If there is a game you'd like to test (and can commit to test), that isn't listed here, and don't already have, please post that game here.

Also, if you own a 30" panel, please post here so I can keep track of this group of users.

(Hopefully) upcoming tests:

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Half-Life
Max Payne 1
Max Payne 2

Games confirmed for 2560x1600. These have been updated in the MGL

Call of Duty 2
City Life
Civ IV
Day of Defeat: Source
Doom 3
Dreamfall
ES4:Oblivion
Far Cry
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
GTA:SA
GTA:VC
GTA3
Half-Life 2 (incl. ep1&mods)
Need for Speed Most Wanted
Quake 4
Ship Simulator 2006
Unreal Tournament 2004

Updated for 9/18
Age of pirates
Black & White 2
Company of Heroes
Counter Strike: Source
Crashday
FEAR
Galactic civilisations 2
Guild Wars
Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban
Left Behind: Eternal Forces
Lego Star Wars II
Leisure Suit Larry: MCL
Neverwinter Nights
Pacific fighters
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends
Rome: Totalwar
Shadowgrounds
Star Wars: Empire at war
Star wars: Jedi Knight 2: jedi outcast.
Star wars: Knights of the old republic
Titan Quest
Tomb Raider Legends
Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006
WarhammerDOW 1.30.
X3- the threat
XIII

Updated on 10/18:
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Call of Cthulu
Call of Juarez
City of Heroes
City of Villians
Darkstar One
Fable: The Lost Chapters
LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth
LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth II
Operation Flashpoint
World of Warcraft

Updated 6/16 (has it been that long?):
Unreal 2004
Supreme Commander
C&C3

Updated 8/11
AOE3
Darwina
Dungeon Siege 2
Overlord
Quake 3 Arena


Thanks,
Ib

Yo. _o/
;)


I'll check out all the games I have at the moment. There doesn't seem to be a detailed report for Oblivion so I might write that.

Come to think of it, it might be easier to just list all the games I have and edit the result in later if 2560x1600 works as described in reports:

Tested:

GTA:SA Works
GTA:VC Works
GTA3 Works
ES4:Oblivion Works
City Life Works
CIV IV Works
Doom 3 Works
Half-Life 2 (incl. ep1&mods) Works
Quake 4 Works
OpenTTD Doesn't work
Ship Simulator 2006 Works
Red Alert 2 Doesn't work

Will be able to test:

Far Cry
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Half-Life
Max Payne 1
Max Payne 2
Neverwinter Nights

I would like to know if the following games can work with native 2500x1600 resoltion or if they can be forced to do it through editing the config.ini. Any feedback will be much appreciated. This 30 inch panel is very expensive and it would be terrible if none of my?yours favourite games worked at 2500x1600...

Fable : The lost Chapters,

Deus Ex (the first game, not Invisible war)

No one Lives forever 2 (An oldie but a goodie)

The chronicles of Riddick

Psychonauts

Doom 3

Vampire The Masquerade : Bloodlines ( There is Res. patcher for this game as changing the config.ini doesn't work for the game, but does the patcher go up to 2500x1600? I don't think it does I think 1920x1200 is the highest it goes, so what should I do , I really like this game, and would love to see it at 2500x1600)

Hitman Blood Money ( a beutifal game)

Ghost recon Advanced warfighter?

The sims 2 ( an important one)

Thank You.

If someone sends me a 30" panel, i'll test all my games. ;) Seriously though, is this only for 2500x1600? Any 1920x1200 resolutions needing testing?

I havn't got a 30 inch screen yet. I want to know it will play my games at native resoluion first bbefore I buy it. I am willing to e-send my games to anyone who has a 30incher for testing. Free games. Can't say fairer than that.

If someone sends me a 30" panel, i'll test all my games. ;) Seriously though, is this only for 2500x1600? Any 1920x1200 resolutions needing testing?

I don't think so, but check the detailed reports.

Hi I put in a order for a Dell 3007wfp so I really need some help with the resoltion stuff please. Can Fable, Vampire , Deus Ex and the Sims 2 do 2500x1600? If not how do I hack them to make them do it. Please someone help me out. Oh yeah what about San Andreas? Can that do it ? If not how? Thank you.

Tony,

This is exactly the kinds of questions we want answered. The assumption is that any game that will support widescreen will support the 2560x1600. But, we need to confirm that. When you get your panel, please test every game you have (using any widescreen tricks needed), and see if the games support the res, and then post back here.

Oh yeah what about San Andreas?

Doom 3

geez.. Does no one read my posts? Why do I bother.. :?

I have a 30 inch Apple Cinema Display, but only have a Macbook Pro to hook up to it and I don't want to install Windows onto it, but my PC is getting a 7900gs with dual-link to power the display, so I may be able to test some games and whatnot then.

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Oh yeah what about San Andreas?

Doom 3

geez.. Does no one read my posts? Why do I bother.. :?
Fair point. We need to get the resolutions updated on the MGL for Jupix's contributions.

Okay, now here's a pointer for all SLI & 2560x1600 users:

Whether your game works or not might be a driver related issue. I just tried GTA: San Andreas and GTA3 on my 7800GTX SLI rig and 84.43 Beta drivers and had some serious problems with both games. San Andreas was completely unplayable because of graphics corruption and there was noticeable horizontal striping in GTA3. I also tried Oblivion and it crashed with BSOD immediately, however, it is uncertain if that particular crash was caused by the drivers.

Anyway, I upgraded to the latest driver set (91.33 Beta) and everything now works flawlessly.

So if you do have SLI and are experiencing problems running games at 2560x1600 I recommend upgrading to the latest drivers.

Proud to be part of the 3007 users :D
Well, i also tested the following games and they work at 2560x1600 without a problem:
Far Cry
Unreal Tournament 2004
Call of Duty 2
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Need for Speed Most Wanted

Will be testing some others later. The only one that i remember that couldnt play at more than 1920x1200 is Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. I dont know if i did something wrong but i will retry later.

I've created a usergroup for 30" panel owners, and added the folks listed here with a 30" panel in their posession or on order. I may be emailing you about testing games (and I'm hoping to provide some of them for you), or asking for games to be tested.

The group is open. Others can add themselves, existing members can remove themselves if they don't want to get the periodic emails (though you may miss out on some free games).

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Oh yeah what about San Andreas?

Doom 3

geez.. Does no one read my posts? Why do I bother.. :?

Yeah I realised you wrote those games , but I forgot as I was writing my list. I still wanted to know if those games support 2560x1600 nativley or if the config file has to be altered, and as far as I can see San Andreas doesn't seem to have a cofig file with the resoltions in there.

Also thank you Ibrin for including me in the 30 inch user group. I will be a good member by helping out as much as I can.

Unfortunatlkey I have been gyped by my online retailer Scan.co.uk. They claimed they had it in stock and ready for delivry, so I pay for it. the next day I find out that they are no longer in stock and havn't sent me one yet. Boy was I mad.

I got even angrier when they said that they have no idea when they are getting new ones, because Dell have no stock to give. I was thinking of getting my money back but there are very few places selling the Dell 3007wfp in the UK and even fewer that I trust and they have none in stock aswell.

I phoned Dell and apparentley they claim that scan havn't even placed any order for the 3007wfp and that they have loads to sell and are happy to supply Scan with a bulk order . They do take a while to deliver though if I went with them instaed where as Scan have next day delivery.

So now I am in a bind. I am pretty stressed out aswell. I feel that Scan have gyped me and are purposley not ordering more because they sold it to me at a cheap price and probably can't get that price from Dell anymore.

I wish I had another spare grand so I can order direct from Dell today ,so that I can see who dispatches quicker and then cancel whoever didn't. I am usually quiteimpatient anyway and this incident has really tested my patience. Also since today is Bank Holiday I can't even contact Scan so that I can tell them off fo lieng about Dell not having any monitors.

Yeah I realised you wrote those games , but I forgot as I was writing my list. I still wanted to know if those games support 2560x1600 nativley or if the config file has to be altered, and as far as I can see San Andreas doesn't seem to have a cofig file with the resoltions in there.

Fair enough.

San Andreas works out of the box, but with Doom 3 you have to use the same config tweak as with every WS res.

- D3 Detailed Report

Oh and it seems you will have to wait "a while" even if you order your 3007 from the Scan shop.. So I'd recommend ordering straight from Dell :)

Finally got my Problem sorted with Scan . After getting my money back I went straight to Dell and ordered the screen. Should have my Dell 30 inch by Wednesday at the latest. So I will report back very soon after that with my initial response and hopefully some early conclusions on the use of 2560x1600 on my games. Should have all games tested, ready for my final conclusion by the following Monday.

By the way I have a X2 4800+ cpu clocked at 2.7ghz. My memory is 2gig DDR Corsair 3500ll twinX @ 500mhz . My GPUs are X1900XT-X crossfire clocked at 670mhz core and 785mhz memory (1.57ghz effective) . I know this is a bad ass rig and has enough juice to play any game at the native resoltion of 2560x1600 but will I still be able to use 4xAA and 8xAF like I usually do in my games?

I am concerend about Oblvion and FEAR . Those games very really struggling before, when I tried them at 1920x1200 on a monitor that I have since reurned. But I did have the settings maxed out and 4xaa, 8xAF and HDR enabled. Hopefully it won't be too much of a drop in performance from goung upto 2560x1600 from 1920x1200. I don't mind using just 2xAA , but I have to have at least that. Anyway I geuss I will find oit soon.

Oblivion and FEAR are always system killers. Be sure to put your rig specs in your sig (and check the guidelines on the profile page). Glad to see you're getting yours sorted. I just got Bootcamp loaded on my Mac Pro. So, I will at least be able to test stuff, even if I can't play it that well (I only got the 7300s in it).

Just joined the forums after reading this post.
I am a 30" owner. I have the Apple Cinema 30"
PC specs are AMD 3800+, 7900GTX

I run half life 2 and DOD:S at 2560 x 1600 with no fps issues, all settings at high with 4AA & 8AF, still having 40-50FPS

Any games that need testing, let me know, will gladly test for everyone.

Im sure some of you would like to know how games run at resolution non SLI or CF machines..

Glad to be apart of the forums!!!

Joseph

Thanks for the info. I updated DOD:S in the MGL. Also added you to the 30" panel owners.