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There's some discrepancy between this:

There is a "Horizontal FOV lock" selection that needs to be disabled in the game-options screen.

and this:

Off by default.


Manually set "on." Notice how there is more to the right and left now?

Can you take a pair of screenshots similar to what Dopefish has? If you are right, I have a guess about why there's this contradiction, but I'd like to know for sure first.

Also, for you, is "Horizontal FOV lock" enabled or disabled?


Grade: B+

Disabled.

:?:

I've got a question for both Tanuki and dopefish. Are you using the "Worldwide" patch or the "USK German and English" patch? If you're both using a different version of the patch, I wonder if that's the reason for the difference - that they screwed up with one of them but not the other.

Worldwide.

I was unsure if the US version was censored so I used this one.

:?:

Are you using the "Worldwide" patch or the "USK German and English" patch?

USK is actually the German censorship organization. Why they have an English version I have no idea.

I use the U.S version, which required the World Wide version patch. Mines definitely uncensored I kow that. :o

Reworded aspect-ratio section.

EDIT - And again.

Sorry to resurrect an ancient thread but I just wanted to add that this hack also works just fine with the Steam version of Bioshock 1.1 (which I got for $4.99 USD in their Christmas/New Years sale but only just got around to downloading/playing), you know, in case anybody was wondering :D

N.B. Tested @ 1920*1080 on a Core i7 920; 6GB DDR3; GeForce GTS 240 2GB; Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

2560x1600 res successfully tested.

Hello,

I just installed this game and played it for a bit.
But I immediately noticed the stretching of certain elements when using the 16:10 1680x1050 resolution.
Which is my monitor's native resolution and thus aspect ratio by the way.
While I'm glad the 3D-graphics aren't stretched, I still tried to use a 16:9-resolution.
The next best thing is 1600x900 I believe, which is only a slight step below 1680x1050.

But I noticed it even stretches the 3D-graphics then too.
While in a game such as "GTAIV" the image would just keep the aspect ratio of the resolution
and leave the unused part of the 16:10-screen black of course.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think 'Rainbow Six Vegas', also based on the Unreal Engine, does the same.
As in NOT stretching the 16:9-resolution to fill a 16:10-monitor,
but leave "black bars" where the screen isn't actually used.

So, what is it with this game? Is there some setting I could use somewhere to "force" the aspect-ratio?

It's probably using the aspect ratio of your desktop resolution, so try setting your desktop to 1600x900 and seeing if the stretch is still there in the game.

I have found a way to adjust any Bioshocks fov to any value you like.
Already updated the DR.
Enjoy.

Updated the screenshots and MM resolution, thanks to a new fix from HaYDeN (Flawless Widescreen).

Cheers
- Revy