Widescreen Gaming Forum

Hi to all first of all great site .

I have just bought a widescreen HG216D HDMI 22in .

First problem is the fact i am gamer for 6 years playing coduo / cod2 / cod4 in clan all that stuff .

Not knowing much about widescreen thought this was the way to go only to realise that it came with anolog connection only with hdmi cable optional .

My grafics card has two dvi-d outputs so with old monitor had to use connector to tranfer back into anolog knowing this would not play my card at its full potencial , reason have got digital monitor now .

Here comes the problem i am going to buy this connector http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@2136661378.1204422250@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccggadedhdlefedcflgceggdhhmdgml.0&category_oid=&sku=387040&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null

So that i can get full digital output from my card to my monitor , have already went into my game coduo and changed my config file to support the res on the monitor which is 1680x1050 because the game does not support widescreen .

When i first started playing game with new monitor my grafics looked awful but talking with some of my gaming pals the told me to change config file and looks great now ,but seems sometimes the screen trying to gatch up with movement of mouse (like playing drunk if you know what i mean ) .


So to cut a long story short my two questions

1 . will this cable improve the way my grafics card preforming i know it will improve my desktop etc because other people i know have dvi cable and night and day to anolog cable with dig monitor


2 this is my grafics card http://ati.amd.com/products/radeonx800/radeonx800gt/index.html

not knowning much about clocking etc etc would i be best just putting it to default setting let it do its own thing or has anyone know what the best setting for wide screen play is .

Thanks hope you s can help

regards as always john

Nice cable you're getting... Yes it should keep the signal digital. But it will NOT improve performance. Color and signal quality willbe strong, but actuall game perfomance will stay as-is.

that drunken mouse feeling can be a couple things.

Low framerate (FPS)
Bad or incorrect network settings (in-game)
Sometimes it can even be linked to an audio issue, but i doubt that's your problem.

Honestly, the first thign that pops to my mind is getting a beefier video card - if you plan on running games at that resolution I'd strongly suggest you upgrade to a video card with 512mb or more vdieo RAM. Those high resolutions eat up a lot of memory and even MORE once you start using anti-aliasing. You may want to try using 1440x900 for the time being.
Maybe even a lower resolution but higher anti-aliasing...

One (and it'd say the only) disadvantage to using ATI card is that their aspect ratio scaling requires 3rd party software, and even THEN it's not-so-hot.

However, once you get a nVidia card in there and hooked up via DVI, it gives you a good many options for scaling (resizing, stretching) your game image to suit your preferences.

To see what performance you actually get you can use FRAPS, an awesome fps counter/capture program or use an in-game FPS counter, which all the Call of Dity games have. If memory serves the command is the same for all 4 games:

First enable and/or bring up teh game's console.

enter "cg_drwafps 1", no quotes, and hit ENTER, then your framerate should show at the top of your screen.

Personally i cannot play a game unless it runs at least 30fps.... and slow fps is a real killer in multiplayer gaming.

Oh, also make sure your supposed 'lag' isn't your connection. Many MP game bebefit from tweaking teh "rate" value in your games' connection/server settings. (also a console command)

You can find a spiffy COD tweak guides here: http//www.tweakguides.com
As far as overclocking goes, first find a program that can moitor your vdieo card temps, like ATI tool or Everest. But I've foudn that video overclocking makes little difference.

OO this reply is quite a bit longer than i expecgted, but there you have it.

PS - you certainly came to the right place for widescreen info. As I've stated before, every wide monitor should ahve a WSGF stamp on it.

Thanks mikeh for taking the time to give me all that imformation , i have changed my fps settings in the config file in uo to 150 the max the game can run .
It normally runs at 85/ 120 depending on how big the map is .

Would you say my graffics card a bit out dated or not too bad for now, the grafics since changing the config file to suit wide screen look great but just that sort of lightheaded feeling when panning about , is there a setting in my card i could change to see if it fixes this .

Or will i just try changing the resolution first in the config file to the settings you recommend .

I was directed to your sit by another clan member and honest will be raving about it for weeks , if i can i am going to ask if they will put link straight here on our website if this ok by you guys .

Whole new world out there now again thanks man

regards as always john :D

Glad i could help.

I"m sure we'll see you here again, for widescreen issues are always present.

Damned devs.