Widescreen Gaming Forum

Hello all, first post here...

Has any of you experienced problems running Dark Messiah's Demo in Widescreen??

Cheers

Considering it has native widescreen not really. What is your problem? No widescreen options? Crashes?

Source engine is kind to WS gamers, i had no trouble with it.

I did notice it is very intense, my 6800 cried...alot...my XTX ate it for breakfast.

Since my system can't handle this game at the full 1680x1050 of my Widescreen Dell, is there a way to force a lower but still 16x10 resolution?


EDIT - Untested answer to my own question:

1280x768 16x10
1440x900 16x10

Put this into the target area of the the shortcut:
-width [pixels] -height [pixels]

Using these two commands you can set a custom resolution in Pixel Width x Pixel Height (e.g. -width 640 –height 480 starts HL2 with 640x480 resolution). Make sure you choose a resolution supported by your monitor and with the correct ratio of width to height.

um, steam supports, both those res's just 1280x768 is 16:9 not 16:10, 1280x800 is 16:10 (me thinks)

just go to options and video man.

And totally off topic: the games out tommorow at 10am GMT! Gonna buy it tonight.

In the readme file for Dark Messiah it states that "Dark Messiah does not officially support 16:10", so that would mean that we don't have the correct FOV for it even when picking a rez such as 1680x1050 in the menu

Doesn't officially support it...? Then why would they even have the option for it in the settings menu?

I would imagine b/c it's based off the source engine,b/c even CS 1.6 has 16:10 options, and what I think they mean is that it doesnt support a 16:10 FOV by defualt

Yeah I get that but, why would they bother to leave it if they aren't going to set the FOV accordingly?

it has the option so that you still at least have 16:10 resolutions. I personally tested 16:10 @ 1680x1050 to 1280x1024 and 16:10 showed more but it only showed enough that makes me think it's using a 16:9 FOV, I claim that b/c of the way the comment was worded in the readme file, it doesnt say widescreen in general, it specifically says 16:10.. so logically they're saying it has a proper 16:9 FOV..but not a 16:10 one

Hmm, I wouldn't even be able to check for myself right now. As a matter of fact I still haven't beaten the game because I got to a part in Chapter 5 and the FPS plumetted to 5-7 and no matter what I do it doesn't budge :?. Same stupid thing happened to me in the demo as well.

really? I'm in chapter 5 still, spiders freak me out...I have no problems in real life but in games...eh...

oh well, I haved no problems with frames. wish I could say the same about load times...even with a raptor...they are horrible.

really? I'm in chapter 5 still, spiders freak me out...I have no problems in real life but in games...eh...

oh well, I haved no problems with frames. wish I could say the same about load times...even with a raptor...they are horrible.

A boatload of memory seems to help with Source engine based game loading times. I had 1GB of ram, and went to 3GB and loading times reduced significantly for HL2 and DM:M&M. The loading times still aren't great but they are bearable.

The only thing I could do to not go crazy with the load times was lower the texture quality to medium.

I have 2gb of Corsair DC DDR400 @ CAS 2-3-3-6 the load times are acceptable to me and I'm running everything on High., also keep in mind running antivirus software while playing a newer generation game is a bad idea. *I'm to tired right now to explain why, expect a thread in the morning*

also.. i dont see a problem with non incredibly fast load times, if I can run everything on high and wait about 30 secs longer then that's fine with me, b/c once it loads it's all about the rams speed. I wont sacrifice quality in a game just so I don't have to wait about 7-15 secs longer at a load screen.

The difference between medium quality textures and high quality textures in Dark Messiah is a heck of a lot more than 7-15s.

I wasn't trying to be exact, I was very breifly describing my whole approach about load times.

Well, it was a gross under statement. The difference in the times is seconds to minutes.